Best explanation of gas price “gouging” that I’ve ever seen

Mostly bad, but the shiny effect keeps me coming back for more: I don’t like the new album cover view. Thumbs down, mainly because I have almost no cover art. iTunes, why don’t you just download the cover art for me? Actually, didn’t I already do this once? And I really don’t like that view [...]

Megan McArdle on Lehman: “Failure is nature’s way of saying: ‘Don’t do that!’”

Interesting to me, anyway. Feel free to skip this post if you don’t care about politics. My definition of interesting is “I cannot predict what this person will say next, even though I’ve been reading their writings for the past several years.” This is also my talk radio strategy, which I may have outlined before [...]

Today I was struck down by The Grippe. Don’t know what I got, all I know is that after laying around sleeping and feeling miserable all day I’m now almost at the point where I’m merely bone tired instead of clinically dead. Lots of hallucinations, mostly involving mountain lions, this video, transistor circuits, and Sarah [...]

Orthorexia: obsessing over how pure and free of toxins your food is, to the point of it becoming an eating disorder.

If I would have figured out my lookup table by hand I would be done by now. Instead I decided to write a program to help me build a lookup table. It started getting ridiculous with graphical buttons and custom controls, so I had to scale back some features and it’s still not done. Oh [...]

I was reading this Politico article and the first paragraph summarizes all of the dirt the Democrats have found on Sarah Palin: Fishing permit violations. A blue-collar husband who racked up a DUI citation as a 22-year-old. An unmarried teenage daughter who is pregnant and a nasty child custody battle involving a family member. Or, [...]