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Picture test

I have to say that this little android app is pretty cool. Here is a pic of Pedro who decided to pull out all his toys for a little nap.

Blogging from the droid

Not sure I have a need to do so but apparently there is an app to do just that. Maybe it will be the incentive to get this blog going again. Or maybe I’ll just wait for the iPad…

Why Can’t We Do Whatever We Want?

Go here and read this article: It’s a Free Country… Go ahead, I’ll wait…. OK. I don’t even know where to start. First off I would guess by the naiveness of the article, that the reporter is under 25. People are no longer opening harmful emails? I have piles of data that suggests otherwise. Let […]

There is no such thing as “Government money”

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they […]

Wal-Mart beats Best Buy with $298 laptop | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News

“For the first time, a 3GB memory laptop from a well-known brand has ventured below $300,” Wal-Mart said in a statement Thursday.Starting July 26 this coming Sunday, Wal-Mart will begin selling a $298 Compaq Presario notebook CQ60-419WM with the following specifications: a 15.6-inch display, 3GB of memory, a 160GB hard-disk drive, a CD-DVD drive, and […]

Denver Police Officers Want Dollars To Dress – cbs4denver.com

Denver police are suing the city saying they should be paid extra for the time it takes to dress before work, undress after work, and for the time it takes them to dry clean or wash and press their uniforms. If the 843 officers who are plaintiffs in the suit prevail on all of their […]

The Vendor Client Relationship

The Graveyard of the Atlantic

This large map of Sable Island shows its many shipwrecks. Only sealers, shipwrecked sailors and salvagers made their homes on Sable Island, impermanent ones at best. The salvagers must have had some pretty good times — over the last few centuries, more than 350 vessels were shipwrecked on what became known as the “Graveyard of […]

Jonathan schipper Slow motion car crash

This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. Each car moves about three feet into the other. The movement is so slow as to be invisible. It is almost impossible to watch a modern action film […]

Frugal Bachelor: The Frugal Shall Inherit the Earth

Ever wonder what happens to a society which overspends its way to self-indulgence and luxury? It is very simple, they go bust. The best examples of this today are countries such as Japan, France, Italy, England, and Germany, which are all decaying and rotting cesspools of filth. The problem with these countries is that it […]