Saturday was opening day. When you picture opening day for a baseball season, you picture a bright sunny day with people coming to cheer their teams on. For Little League, you picture the same thing but instead of just a team to cheer on, they come to cheer on the children. America has much of [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2007’
New option – Newsletter
I know that the right thing in the modern world is using RSS feeds. I’ve shown Kathy how to use them in Bloglines and she uses it to subscribe to mine and a few others of interest to her. Very cool. But there are other people who are in my life that may want to [...]
TV – Harry Dresden
The SciFi Network original TV series Dresden Files about an actual wizard named Harry Dresden is based on a series of books (I’ve reviewed them here in my blog so look in the archives). I’ve been somewhat disappointed in the series to date. It’s been pretty flat. In general, I’m ok with adaptations being different [...]
Book Review – Light My Fire by Katie MacAlister
I haven’t stopped reading books. In fact, I have read quite a few. I just haven’t been inspired to write any reviews lately. Mostly the books that I have had were entertaining but just there to fill time (the copious amounts of spare time that I have) but they did draw me in. You know [...]
Taxes – scary stuff
We are in the middle of taxes now. Taxes every year are stressful. This even means when they are easy because, gosh you are dealing with the government and your money it …. just is… stressful that is! This year though, at least for us, some unplanned for stuff hit us. We are working with [...]
New Music Site
As a big Anti DRM person, I watch various news feeds for music outlets that deliver their music DRM free. I heard about a new one called AmieStreet. The model is quite interesting. When a new song shows up for the first time, it is actually free. As a song is purchased and recommended, the [...]
A Personality Quiz
I took a personality quiz. Here are my results: Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP) Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant. Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving. How Rare Is Your Personality? [...]
Some Stats and Analysis
I read a lot of blogs regularly. One of them is Freakonomics which is an interesting blog about economics and related geekery about statistics, economics, data and such. It’s written in an easy to understand style rather than a boring text book style. I came across this post on Vanishing Mailboxes, Underperforming Schools, and Global [...]
Interesting Problem…Hard to Figure Out
I have 3 Turtle Beach Audiotron’s. They are now discontinued MP3 HiFi devices that play music files located on a server. They have served me quite well for quite a number of years. Well, now that I have made the transition to an Apple OS I have to figure out how to do things differently. [...]
Adding a another financial consultant
We had some unexpected, meaning unplanned for, gains this year. Unexpected or unplanned for gains mean that you have no chance to act in advance to plan for the increased tax expense. For us, people who are living on our savings, this is a big issue. Because of this, we decided to hire a tax [...]
Little League
We’ve decided to sign Xander and Mitchell up for Little League. Xander will be in AA and Mitchell in T-Ball. This is actually the first organized sporting activity that either has participated in. They have been in camps that have been training and general survey in nature but not really competitive. Our introduction so for [...]