No, I’m not going to propose a solution to our health care cost problems. I’m just going to give a great example of the problem (and maybe point out that a lot of the effort made so far on solving the problem is… trying to solve the wrong problem).
My oldest daughter’s birthday is in early [...]
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This is a backslash: \
It’s also known as a reverse solidus, oblique, slosh, hack, escape, reverse slash, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reversed virgule, or backslat.
This, which is somewhat similar, is a forward slash: /
If you’re reading this in a web browser look up at the URL. It is full of forward slashes. Not a [...]
Cheap Bluetooth Headsets
Posted in random, technology on Sep 19th, 2008
Apparently I’m a sucker for cheap Bluetooth headsets. I’ve owned quite a few over the years and I’ve never been happy with them. Maybe that’s what I get for buying cheap ones. Maybe I should take the plunge and buy something expensive… and hope that it’s actually better than the others.
I’ve had [...]
I used to live in Houston and made several trips down to Galveston. It looks like Hurricane Ike is headed that way and I just hope everyone down there finds a safe place to ride it out.
So today is September eleventh. Of course nobody calls it that - we all call it nine eleven. It has been seven years since the 09/11. There wasn’t much talk of the terrorist attacks today. There was the dedication of the memorial at the Pentagon, which obviously generated some news coverage. But in [...]
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Posted in random on Sep 10th, 2008
Last Friday evening my wife and I were sitting down to enjoy an episode of 24 (we’re only on Season Two - don’t tell us what happens) and we thought it would be nice to have a drink. We were out of wine! We were down to our last beer! I reminded [...]
Diet Pepsi
Posted in random on Sep 3rd, 2008
I don’t care too much about brands but Diet Pepsi is terrible. Diet Coke is good.
Please enjoy the completely random, unrelated Diet Pepsi image.
Do You Feel Like We Do
Posted in random on Sep 2nd, 2008
I’m not much of a music buff. I do enjoy the 1976 album Framptom Comes Alive! and obviously the best track is “Do You Feel Like We Do.” The live version clocks in at 14:16 (that’s over 14 minutes long!). Wikipedia claims there is a 7:19 single version and a 6:44 studio [...]
Very Short Movie Reviews
Posted in random on Sep 1st, 2008
I don’t watch too many movies - and the ones I do get to see are almost always seen at home (DVD or download). In fact, in the past four years (since my first kid was born) I think I’ve seen 3 movies in the theater… maybe 4..
Since I’m sure everyone cares about what [...]
It’s becoming clear to me that the main reason I blog is to give myself a platform for complaining about things. So, here I go…
I won’t bother complaining about Twitter going down all the time. Maybe it doesn’t even go down that often anymore. Anyway, it never bothered me that much - I figure you [...]
