Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

Posts from September 2008

A Brief Comment on the “Bailout”

Frankly, no one should be bailed out from anything. Companies who willingly committed fraud in screwing up our economy should not only not receive any taxpayer bailout money, but should be prosecuted and imprisoned. Debtors who willingly entered into mortgages and loans they could not afford to pay off should be allowed to [...]


Bless the Internet

Sometimes, I don’t know what I would do without the internet.
Case in point: CNN.com has a “story” that’s mostly just summarizing the opinions of some site commenters regarding the insipid and criminal proposed federal investment bank bailout plan, answering the question “what would you do with $700B?”
I needed only to read this response to the [...]


Someday

I will have an office this awesome.
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Color Test

I like the design and implementation of the FM 100 Hue test for color perception. I’m also a little bit surprised that I got a perfect score on it. I figured I would have done well, but I didn’t expect perfect.


Labor Day

Reading my RSS feeds on the Google Reader, I saw a post on Get Rich Slowly, “Every Job I’ve Ever Had“, posted on the occasion of Labor Day. I liked the idea of thinking up all the jobs I’ve ever had, so here’s all of the jobs I’ve ever had:

dishwasher at Ocean Edge Resort
dairy [...]