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April 24th, 2008I was checking my email … really
April 24th, 2008Too funny (II)
April 23rd, 2008Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight:
Found at Tacky Raccoons.
Too funny
April 23rd, 2008
Found at The Lawdog Files, via Atomic Nerds.
The Secret of Steel
April 23rd, 2008When I was younger, I was interested in blacksmithing. I had found a couple of old books on the subject, reprints of older works. I would visit any blacksmith shop I ran across (which only came out to one or two of them, unfortunately). I would spend time dreaming about where I could find a place that was large enough that I could set up a backyard forge without disturbing the neighbors.
I never did anything about it, and I no longer have the books on the subject, nor do I ever think about it much anymore – I’m getting to the age at which that sort of thing sounds way too hard. I can still indulge my fantasies by watching these, though.
This is what I love about the internet – I keep finding interesting things. Too many to keep track of, unfortunately.
Ringed planet under construction – locally
April 22nd, 2008Russel Seitz points to information from the European Space Agency mapping the growing ring of geostationary satellites and debris.
“Pie doesn’t have tentacles!”
April 22nd, 2008I had a link to Skippy’s List (in a prior incarnation at a different URL) on my old website. I didn’t find out until just now that he’s got a blog, when I ran across a link to this story.
Iz dark
April 15th, 2008Death and Taxes
April 15th, 2008Well, taxes, anyway. No death in this post, just some things that may make you want to threaten someone with it.
We’ll start with a little humor, though, just to provide better contrast with the rest of the post.
Rachel Lucas has a fine rant on the occasion of paying her taxes. My federal taxes are higher than hers, but I’m fairly certain I make more money than she. Unlike her, I also get to pay state income tax here in Colorado, which pushed my income taxes up to about 25% of my taxable income. Democrats in the Colorado state government are also planning another assault on TABOR, so I expect state taxes to increase more quickly in the near future.
Then I had the additional dubious pleasure of having to submit a 1040X for 2006, because I got sent an erroneous 1099 last year, and a corrected one after I’d submitted my taxes. It meant that I had to send in more money, which was so nice.
Willisms talks about Tax Freedom Day, and also about the taxes we can expect to see in the near future.
That last link is the one most likely to cause what Kim du Toit refers to as an RCOB moment, and it relates to the idea that there really are two Americas. I’m pretty sure I know which one I live in.
Finally, Francis Porretto, the Curmudgeon Emeritus, talks on a related subject in item 3 of this post. More can be found on this topic here.
Then again, maybe the last link should be this.
UPDATE: Physics Geek has a good post, too. And we certainly can’t forget this:
I have a new hero
April 15th, 2008… but not a Guitar Hero …