After finding Mint yesterday, I was freshly reminded of how expensive it is to eat out. For example, the least expensive meal I know of when I go out for lunch that isn’t fast food (though Chik-Fil-A is darned tasty) is about $8 including a soda; $6 with water. However, a bowl of soup and …
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al qaeda greets obama victory with an insult
From http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/mideast/qaeda.php: “In Al Qaeda’s first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W. Bush.” … “American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that …
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kelly johnson’s 14 rules of management
Johnson’s famed ‘down-to-brass-tacks’ management style was summed up by his motto, “Be quick, be quiet, and be on time.” He ran Lockheed’s Skunk Works by these 14 rules. Kelly’s 14 Rules: The Skunk Works manager must be delegated practically complete control of his program in all aspects. He should report to a division president or …
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is google killing our brains?
http://searchengineland.com/are-our-brains-becoming-googlized-15421.php New tools make us work in new ways. Who would’ve guessed? This seems to go along with something I wrote a couple years back.
disingenuity
I read this Reuters story today on Americans being against helping Detroit’s Big Three. This is the self-same America that just authorized $700 billion (with a “B”!) dollars to bail-out struggling financial services companies. Now $25 billion is too much to help keep hundreds of thousands of jobs around? That seems to be a double …
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notes to self on flying internationally
I’m in London for a couple weeks for work. Going through customs is an interesting process – especially when you can’t prove you actually should be allowed in the country. This that somebody should have told me before I left: bring a print-out of your itinerary know the address(es) of where you’re staying have cash …
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obama’s anti-gun campaign has already started
“After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby.” For anyone who actually believed this man, he’s living proof he’s a liar. For more information: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4227
s’mac
I first learned of S’Mac back in June during my visit to Bridge Cafe. Later in June I went to Growler’s outside of St Louis, and found some pretty darn good mac and cheese there. They advertise “New York’s best Macarroni and Cheese”. I haven’t had mac & cheese elsewhere in the city, but if …
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why i won’t – can’t – vote for obama
The list is short, and simple. He’s pro-death. Anyone who votes to deny medical care to an infant born after a botched abortion is not fit to be a leader. Anyone who is pro-abortion for any reason (not merely in the [uncommon] event of endangering the life of the mother) is pro-death, and I will …
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bridge cafe – this time with food
Back in June I went to Bridge Cafe in Manhattan. I was back on Halloween, and this time brought a guest. My dad took the train from Rensselaer to Penn Station Friday, did some touristy stuff, and I met up with him early afternoon. I’m going to allow him to comment on his lunch choice – either …
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please stay home next week tuesday
if you’re undecided. If by now, with a week left, you haven’t picked who you’re going to vote for as President (and I almost don’t care who you pick [I do, but that’s another story]), don’t vote. I’d like to tell you to vote for the guy I want to win, but I don’t like …
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i’m a s.w.a.t. member
I thought I was a helicopter parent, but I’m not. What I do for a living, currently, is like being a SWAT team member – except instead of it being a team, it tends towards the commando. I provide onsite installation, support, and extension of the server management suite my company offers. That means that …
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why are geeks liberal?
I’ve noticed that most technical forums, from user groups to mailing lists, slashdot to stackoverflow, all tend liberal. I want to know why there seems to be a paucity of conservatives in these settings. I want to know why the libertarians that show tend towards the radical fringe of the party. With the size of …
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righteous kill
Without giving any [important] plot points away, here goes my review of Righteous Kill, which I saw last night with a buddy of mine. Righteous Kill is only the third film the two have made together, and the first time they have played together. In the Godfather Part II, De Niro played a younger Vito …
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am i the only one outraged?
Starting Friday, gas stations around the Triangle started spiking their prices. They raised them because hurricane Ike might disrupt future gasoline production. The cost of the gas they have in the ground is totally unaffected by whatever may or may not happen with this hurricane. But folks made runs on gas stations fearing prices would …
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comment to rush
I emailed the Rush Limbaugh show Friday, and proffered the following: What if John McCain picked Sarah Palin because he’s planning to retire before his term is up, and this is a masterful plan to pull the biggest political coup d’etat, a la femme? If McCain/Palin get elected and McCain retires/resigns, Republicans will have the …
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seven years ago – what were you doing?
I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on TV Land when my aunt called asking me to turn on CNN and tell her what was going on. I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV. And I had probably seen or heard both planes earlier in the morning, because …
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transcript
[This is the transcript of what I planned to say (but didn’t) at my aunt‘s funeral] How many of you only knew Cindy? Go ahead, raise your hands. Good. Ok – you all know me as “Mike”. Put your hands down. The rest of you know me as Warren. Either way, I’m her nephew. Cindy …
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oh, come on!
Apparently, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be turned on soon. That’s cool, because way back when I graduated highschool, I worked as an intern directly manufacturing some components that went into the prototype, and might even be used in the real thing. Now some genius in Europe has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the …
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the planet is doing great!
Full transcript – again, Mr Carlin, you are missed. You got people like this around you? Country is full of them now! People walking around all day long, every minute of the day — worried about EVERYTHING! Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil. Worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, …
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12 may 1953 to 11 aug 2008 – cindy lee myers
I just found out my aunt died sometime between Saturday night and this morning. She didn’t call-in to work to say she’d be out, so one of her coworkers checked on her – and she didn’t answer the phone, so my dad, her older brother, went to her apartment to find out what was wrong. …
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traveling == car rentals
I travel for work. Because I fly hither and yon, I get to rent cars. Some of the time I get interesting ones. Mostly I get vehicles that drive, and get me from point A to point B and back again. In another life, I worked for Hertz in Latham NY. Working for Hertz was …
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toll revenues are down, and they do what?
USA Today reports that toll revenues are down because (drum roll please): fewer people are driving, they’re driving shorter distances, or they’re taking mass transit. What is the response from the organizations that run toll roads? Why, raise tolls of course. That’s right: like any other time the government gets involved in something, instead of …
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the psychology of elevators
I travel for work now, so I get to see lots of elevators. I’ve seen elevators that you pick the floor you want to go to outside the elevator, and then the elevator bank directs you to the one it thinks you should ride to get to your destination the quickest. I’ve seen simple elevators …
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why alcohol and cars don’t mix
I found out today when I logged into my email that one of my former coworkers was involved in a crash yesterday. 19 year old Justin Crouse was drunk and rammed my friend Philip’s car when he ran a red light in Raleigh yesterday. Right now, Philip’s in ICU in Raleigh. His girlfriend, who was …
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