Author: Chris
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Summer "break"
Despite the nasty winter and all of the associated snow days, both of our kids are scheduled to finish school as originally scheduled, which means they only have a few weeks left before the are on summer break. It should be a pretty fun, albeit busy, summer. The pool is open and almost ready to…
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Getting things done…in bizzaro land
Sometimes you can’t get done what you need to get done, but you need to get something done, so you do something you don’t need to do just to get something done. Today is one of those days.
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Another trip around the sun
Today marks another trip I’ve made around the sun (outside of my mother’s womb anyway…did you know Koreans celebrate their birthday 9 months before they “emerge”? Fascinating…). I’ve done a lot of long posts here, so I’ll keep this one short. This past year has been a great one. Way more good than bad to…
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Ponderous, really ponderous…and trascendent
A few quotes that have my attention today. The first an from an old, dead, smart Greek guys. The middle on from an old, dead, smart nun. The last one from an old, alive, smart (but scary) American guy: And what is my sort? you will ask. I am one of those who are very willing…
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Three way on tax day
(Note: I had every intention of getting this post out on “Tax Day”, which of course is not today…life got in the way, but I think it’s interesting enough to still post today…the “Day After”) I was admittedly a little grumpy today. For a second year in a year in a row I owed…
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Two stories from Nevada
Although it hasn’t gotten nearly the media coverage it deserves, most everyone is at least somewhat aware of what’s been going on in Nevada between Rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM. If you’re not part of the almost, the short version is that the BLM claimed that Rancher Bundy’s cattle was grazing on “their” land…
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Bitcoin report: 1 week in
Not an in depth post today, but it’s been about a week since I dove back into the bitcoin pool so I thought I would quickly chronicle what I’ve done and what I plan to do next. Bitcoin related stuff that I’ve done in the past week: I finally read the original whitepaper. I understood…
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How you measure things decides what things you will do: food, health and cars.
Another podcast inspired post. I discovered Tom Woods recently from a Facebook fan page on homeschooling (he’s coming out with a pretty interesting history course for the Ron Paul curriculum) and subscribed to his podcast. I listened to a few episodes on the way to work today (nice that they are only 30 minutes long)…
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Fool's news
Reading the news is a rather interesting venture on the first day of April. There are reports of Russia annexing Alaska, recipes posted about cooking eggs in urine and of course a whole bag of tricks from Google. I will admit that one of the links in the previous list actually got me. All of them…