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Where’s My Yacht?

By on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 | No Comments

A yacht in Lorient, Bretagne, France

While I was pedalling into work this morning, I was listening to the morning show on KBOI radio. The talk of the day was all about “free” cell phones and other government waste. Wow. I had no idea how stupid this phone program is. Really opened my eyes.

The original intent of the program was to provide lower income families with a phone for emergencies, and so that they could look for work or be contacted by potential employers or temporary job services. The program has actually been in existence for years (so much for the “Obama phone” jokes), and up until recently was not a real waste of time and money.

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What’s Up With Microsoft?

By on Friday, April 12th, 2013 | No Comments

The Windows family tree.

This is a rant, and at least partially inspired by a discussion I had a couple weeks ago.

Nearly every day I read some sort of new article about the failure of Windows 8, or how the replacement product, currently called “Blue”, is in the works. Why? Are they just trying to repeat the reboot of Vista as Windows 7? I just don’t get what’s going on in Redmond?

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A Scratch Card Buffet

By on Thursday, March 14th, 2013 | No Comments

Scratch Ticket Buffet

I stopped this morning to pick up some Bandits at a little Stinker station in Caldwell. I had to wait in line for this little old lady who was buying Lotto scratch tickets. “One of those, two of those, uh… one of those, hmmmm… another one of those…”, and so on. It was just like a “scratch card buffet”.

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Hallelujah Song by Leonard Cohen

By on Friday, March 8th, 2013 | No Comments

For whatever reason this song came up on a couple internet searches I did, and I decided to look into it further. Upon reading the information at Wikipedia, I was surprised to learn that Leonard Cohen wrote over 80 verses. The verses we’re familiar with are the ones he eventually settled on. The song must have set a record for “modern” songs as it is claimed to have been recorded by over 300 different artists (and climbing).

Although I haven’t listened to all of the recordings on YouTube, here’s a few of my favorites. Enjoy.

 

 

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Damn That Global Warming

By on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 | No Comments

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We got a bunch of snow this winter, unlike the past few years. Of course, what we had was nothing compared to what they got on the Eastern Seaboard. So, I had to kinda wonder about this…

A famous climate scientist predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free in five years. Unfortunately for him, that was five years ago.

The Guardian published an article in August 2008 in which Professor Wieslaw Maslowski produced a forecast “which indicated that by 2013 there will be no ice in the Arctic, other than a few outcrops on islands near Greenland and Canada, between mid-July and mid-September.”

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