Month: June 2007

Um, okay. The guy is comparing an iPhone, designed in California and built by highly motivated child workers in China, to a car made by lazy socialists in Sweden. Whatever. the case against buying an iPhone – “fake” steve jobs Technorati Tags: apple, fakesteve, fakestevejobs, iphone, saab, steve, stevejobs

…that children are the future. teach them well, and let them lead the way.

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last night we saw superfun yeah yeah rocketship at cognizant coffeehouse, in fountain square, indianapolis. j1 booked the show and it was a winner. the dood was friggin hilarious. he danced around like some crazy mix of flashdance meets the village people, only more crazy and more hyper. it had to be seen to be […]

well, it finally rained. the vegetable garden is looking pretty pathetic (though the puppy’s trampling of it likely isn’t helping) and the front yard actually sounds like gravel when you walk on it. but it was nice not to have to mow for a couple weeks.

to quote my friend tom: “it sure is fun living in the end times.” Last week, the Audubon Society released a new report describing the sharp and startling population decline of some of the most familiar and common birds in America: several kinds of sparrows, the Northern bobwhite, the Eastern meadowlark, the common grackle and […]

on the path three things are regarded as the only treasures worth keeping. they are compassion, simplicity, and humility. in chapter 67 sentence 2 of the tao te ching, here are several translations that i’m fond of: I have three treasures to be maintained and cherished: the first is love; the second is frugality; the […]

below i’ve included the entire text of the article, since the indianapolis star tends to drop their articles from reachability after a few weeks. in any case, i found it interesting, being a native hoosier: The word “Hoosier” isn’t a derisive term, as some historians believe, contends a Hanover College professor who recently found new […]

Scientists in the Soviet Union were sure that organisms from Earth could live in space. To demonstrate that, they sent the world’s second artificial space satellite — Sputnik 2 — to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 3, 1957. On board was a live mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian) on a life-support […]

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j1 & i have a washer and dryer for sale. the dryer is less than three years old and works perfectly. (it is electric only) the washer is 25 years old and also works perfectly. we replaced them with brand new energy efficient ones, because we’re al gore worshiping hippies (plus the LGs are sooo […]

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j2 gave me my father’s day present this morning just as i was leaving for work. awwwwr Technorati Tags: fathersday, fathersdaypresent, present