June 2010
1 post
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April 2009
2 posts
Take your daughter to work day.
March 2009
27 posts
Earth Hour 2009: The Big Picture
Big tip o’ th’ cap to Talonnik for the link!
Larry Retires
“(Lance) Mackey is forcing the golden harness-winner into retirement.
‘Even if he wants to do another, I’m not going to let him,’ said the 38-year-old Fairbanks musher. ‘He’s got a lot of miles under him.’
Larry has finished eight Iditarods — seven with Mackey and one with former Mackey neighbor Paul Gebhardt from Kasilof — and four Yukon...
This just in from the Department of Redundancy Department. Evidently what does go around does in fact, sometimes, come around and the sauce is good for goose and gander alike.
Lance Mackey wins his third Iditarod in a row
Sweet! He still had 15 of his 16 dogs (only had to drop one) and still had Larry in the lead. Amazing. More here.
Eye on Nome
From what I have read, it appears as though Lance Mackey is going to win the Iditarod for the third year in a row.
I think that is great and I have a ton of respect for him and what he has been through. Read his story here. He is hours ahead of the closest competetion and will likely finish sometime this afternoon Alaska time. You can watch all the action via a webcam set up by the finish...
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Some pics from our party this Saturday past. A good time was had with some friends and family with good food and plenty of drink while chatting and listening to music from the celtic artists listed below.
Meme participation o' th' week
Aaight. You have probably seen this, but what the hey, ‘twas new to me. To do this, one puts their iPod on shuffle and then captures the first 20 songs that play. Then comes the part that satisfies the inner seven-year-old in me like an Otter Pop - add ‘In My Pants’ to each song title.
I share:
1. The Berlin Chamber Orchestra - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major In My...
Mackey moves into the lead
Back-to-back Iditarod winner (2007-2008) Lance Mackey has moved into the lead. More here. Sweet.
“I’m standing here on the ice in front of the Iditarod checkpoint. Lance Mackey is in as the current standings will show on the web site. No other team has arrived as of this time. Lance in fact, arrived here at such a quick pace that he caught the volunteers and staff still completing...
Gettin' my Celtic muse on . . .
I am jamming out to my current iPod playlist of choice (probably through next Tuesday) which includes over 33 hours of music from the following artists:
The Adventures Al Lanv The Alarm Alison Kinnaird Andy M. Stewart Ann Heymann Arthur Callaghan Arthur Cormack The Auld Town Band & Pipes The Battlefield Band Big Country Bonnie Rideout Capercaillie Carl Peterson CeliaCeltic Fair The Celtic...
For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help
I’m not a very big fan of the game today, especially the NBA version, but I found this pretty interesting.
Why we as a nation are fat - simple version
Treb hits yet another nail smack on de ‘ead! Amen bro. Amen.
trebuchet:
I work in a building with 2 floors. Our office is on the first floor, and the exterior doors to our office open to the building entrance. Across the way are two elevators, and a nice wide set of stairs that goes up to the second floor. There is a balcony on the second floor, so you can see the two largest businesses...
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“If you watch the movie ‘Jaws’ backwards, it’s a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach.”
via reddit
February 2009
41 posts
In which we get to stimulate the economy even more
I blew up our commuter car today on my 69-mile-one-way drive to the office. Timing belt. Interference engine. It just stopped and wouldn’t start. Done. Game over for the 2003 Kia Spectra. A new motor would not make sense with the mileage on it. Is car shopping fun for anyone? Prolly not. *sigh*
Just doing a little blue sky solutioneering in this thoughtspace to circle the wagons and/or move forward because, net-net, at the end of the day, it is gonna get validated as well as valued sooner rather than later. So, if you take it and turn it, you can reverse-engineer the sum of the parts and/or the business relevant work-life balance to become more outcome-centric. Let me know if you have...
A bit more on the Santelli rant (below) from Dave Gonigam. ‘Tis what bugs me when I don’t do my homework and later find just another Republican in libertarian skins. Santelli, you can do better than this. Or, maybe not.
Drags Arm I
State: … this is a dangerous place … Thela hun ginjeet
Hear: Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: _Goodnight Oslo_ The latest …
See: Deceiver.com
Oblique Strategy: Lost in useless territory
Fact: The Carnival of Venice (in Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) was first recorded in 1268.
Masks have always been a central feature of the Venetian carnival; traditionally people were...
TYWKIWDBI: Bus driver in danger of losing $800,000... →
depasta:
“Bus driver Minta Garcia admits that she and her husband bought more house than they could afford, but she said “the lender made the purchase all too easy.” Now the home that she purchased for $800K is worth $675K and she wants Obama to “Stop the foreclosures”.”
Hope over peanut allergy 'cure' →
trebuchet:
Let me guess, their crazy mothers weren’t able to hover around them while they were doing the testing.
Most of what passes for news and opinion in the media these days does not interest me. Rick Santelli’s comments last week are a notable exception. Click and watch this: CNBC’s Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CME Group
then: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29331920
Mine (above) turned out great, I think! I would buy this album. So fun and a great way to pretend to be creative!
from So in, so out…
Create your own band and debut album cover randomly
Do This:
1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article that comes up is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Quotations Page...
I never knew that Talonnik and I were doing such a patriotic thing by remodeling our kitchen! We just thought that it was a good time to do so because the prices had come down quite a bit. Believe me, it was the most we could do …
“In fact, if you can afford it, then this is exactly the moment to redo your kitchen or buy a car.” (from Ed Glaeser)
Thank us. Thank us very...
State: just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Hear: Steely Dan _The Royal Scam_ In my opinion, this is their best. My favorite track keeps changing depending on my mood. Right now? ‘Tis _Don’t Take Me Alive_
See: Seetch Writing Consultants Shameless plug for a great service near and dear to my heart. They will compose original content, coach writers to...
Origins of Engineering Specifications
This answers the age old question of why do we have to do it this way? Ever wonder where engineering specifications come from? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches, an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and the English built the first US railroads.
Why did the English build them like...
Colorgenics
Oh, like wow man! You so totally gotta check this out over at Colorgenics!
Here is mine:
Name: Snowdog
Date: 2/19/2009
Colorgenics Number: 13520647
...
So, the fun continues and our President chooses volunteers most of us to help “people who bought more house than they could afford in the belief that prices would keep rising indefinitely and they would make big bucks. It was leveraged investing, just like a hedge fund, and often at the same kind of leverage ratios.” (from Megan McArdle)
The President said yesterday, “It...
This is the economy healing itself.
State: And so it goes
Hear: The Ska-Talites _Foundation Ska_ I thought I knew reggae and ska before I heard the Ska-Talites. Amazing tracks from 40+ years ago.
See: Will Wilkinson’s blog. Will is a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.
Oblique Strategy: Overtly resist change (yes, that is what came up today)
Fact: The Byzantines never called themselves “Byzantines”....
“In a moment of clarity, I realize that emptying the lint trap is in essence...”
– Neven Mrgan (via yourmonkeycalled)
… and I thought I was the only one who thought of things like this …