Entries from June 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The Avarice List: A rough draft

Adventures Achievements Early retirement 1 year of living expenses in ready cash ($48,000) 6 months of living expenses in ready cash ($24,000) 3 months of living expenses in ready cash ($12,000) 1 month of living expenses in ready cash ($4,000) 1 week of living expenses in ready cash ($1,000) 1 day of living expenses in [...]

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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Reality Based Fighting Concepts

Anybody take this course? Thoughts?

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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Wall-E, Herbivore, Salsa, Places in the Heart

WALL-E is superb. Go see it! ****POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS**** My only criticism: I thought it had an excessively pessimistic view of the future of humanity. The movie depicted humans as rotund, bland cruise ship passengers, incapable of even walking without the help of their ubiquitous robot servants. And due to reckless disregard for the environment, [...]

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Friday, June 27th, 2008

Digg the Understanding Aging conference!

From the desk of Susan Fonseca-Klein, of the Methusaleh Foundation: “…We have great news! Wired just released an article about the Methuselah Foundation and Aging 2008. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2008/06/methuselah We would love to get your help ensuring that a lot of people see the article today and learn about this effort. Here’s what we can all do: [...]

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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Cobworks cabin

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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

“And I’ll be 100% protected from the sand!”

Note: Not for the squeamish.

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The coming robot war

[Note: some scenes not for the squeamish.]

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Filed under humor, mexicans, politics, robots

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Well, someone has to pick the low hanging fruit…

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits”

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Filed under carlin, death, george, humor

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Fear of heights

Via flutterby “Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.”

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

Hauser’s law: you can’t soak the rich

Via Wall Street Journal article: You can’t soak the rich. by David Ranson, May 20, 2008. “…Mr. Hauser uncovered the means to answer these questions definitively. On this page in 1993, he stated that “No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP.” What [...]

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