When my parents were up for a housewarming / birthday visit, my dad brought a box of fine cigars with him. My personal burn rate on cigars is approximately 2 or 3 per year…and I’m now the owner of 24 good ones. So I bought a humidor. A humidor is the humidified box that keeps . . . → Read More: Stogies and Clusters
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The mistakes wouldn’t even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said. “The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake’s concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words,” she said. “In their mind the words register correctly.” Ahem. Dear freakin’ stupid “web design” morons and your freakish little sycophant buddies, Please make your pages fail gracefully. Please. The glorious beauty of the web, the one single cool thing that has enabled all the other cool web things that have happened in the last decade is that it’s based on open protocols and . . . → Read More: Design Today was pretty cool. I got to talk to Pfizer about the software I’ve been writing. No, they don’t actually have large bowls of Viagra sitting around on the desks. That’s a myth. Looks like I haven’t been fooling myself about how cool this stuff might be. Or at the very least, now someone else . . . → Read More: Of clusters and consulting Income tax in Rhode Island is about 9.5%. I’ve only now begun to realize how high that is. As a thought experiment, take your annual income, remove a “0” from it, and divide the result by 3,000. That’s the number of perfectly usable, stable, used cars that you could buy PER YEAR with around 9.5% . . . → Read More: Taxation I sit on the porch waiting for the air to clear I love wireless. I love the use of Shame as a law enforcement tool. It’s cheap, it’s effective, and it’s constitutional as all-get-out.In order for a taxpayer’s name to appear on this list, their total liabilities must exceed $25,000 and must have remained delinquent for a period of 6 months from the date that the taxes were assessed. . . . → Read More: Shame! |
