Tuesday, April 06, 2010 (0)
Screw 'em
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Twits
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 (0)
Health Care Reform
2 Heart Beats away from the Whitehouse.. Change we can believe in..
.::. .::. Friday, February 26, 2010 (1)
Smart Move Tape
Another from the "why didn't I think of that?" file:
The clearly marked and color-coded designations (Office, Bedroom, Bedroom #2, Kitchen, Storage, etc.) makes unloading go quickly for movers, and organizing many cardboard moving boxes much easier for later on. No doubt you could accomplish something similar with a handful of colored Sharpies, but it would take a lot of consistently careful writing to even approach the same effect—at a time when you are looking to make less work, not more—and the colored tapes really help make sorting a breeze.
Smart Move Tape Two Bedroom Kit
2 bedroom rolls, 2 kitchen rolls, 1 living room roll, 1 bathroom roll
each roll is 2" x 30yd
$12
Available from U-Haul
What They Said:
LBF says Darn It... on 2/26/2010
Wow...so simple and the person(s) responsible are sitting on an island somwhere..
.::. .::. Thursday, February 18, 2010 (1)
How do they do that?
An interesting reel on how TV shows use green screens.
What They Said:
LBF says Very cool on 2/26/2010
sorta sad to see so much is "not real"
.::. .::. Saturday, February 06, 2010 (1)
From the why didn't I think of that? file
Ingenious and eco-friendly! This is pretty innovative, seemingly well thought out, and good looking to boot. The Turbine Light concept harnesses the power of the wind from cars rushing past to light up the ever-darkening roadways. The turbines use the wind collected to generate energy for the lighting.
Source
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LBF says Smart stuff... on 2/26/2010
Kinda cool if you were to speed past it late at night..dark to "bright" behind you
.::. .::. Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (0)
MA Senate Election Analysis
A little long, but pretty good.
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.::. .::. Friday, December 18, 2009 (2)
Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work
If you live in MA anyway..
The Patrick administration filled more than 1,300 state jobs this year - including a librarian for cons, a painter for hospitals and a “game biologist” - in a hiring frenzy that has watchdogs questioning whether the governor has a tight grip on hiring in the face of a dire fiscal crisis.
The list of new hires obtained by the Herald shows jobs spread out across executive offices:
- A $78,000-a-year teacher and a $47,400-a-year librarian for the Department of Correction, two of 200 prison employees hired;
- A $31,000-a-year painter for the Department of Public Health, which also added a physician specialist for $210,500 - the top-paid hire this year;
- A $44,307-a-year game biologist for the Department of Fish and Game;
- And a $206,000-a-year commissioner of higher education and a $117,000 elementary education administrator.
In all, the state has added $46 million in new hires from January to November, the Herald review shows.
[Full Story - Boston Herald]
How do I get a State Job?
What They Said:
RantUser says Prisoners on 12/18/2009
Let's turn the system upside down, spend the money you spend on the prisoners on students, and vice versa. I bet the prison popluation goes down.
HR says Get a State Job on 12/18/2009
Here is how to get a state job: http://short.psacake.com/statejobs
<a href="http://short.psacake.com/statejobs">Link</a>
.::. .::. Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (1)
Veterans Day
Thank you to all that have served, thank you to those that gave some, thank you most to those that gave all.
Remembering The Brave
Happy 234th Birthday to the United State Marine Corps!
What They Said:
coder says problem with textarea maxlength on 11/13/2009
after you hit the limit of characters, you can't delete any and the backspace doesn't work.
.::. .::. Friday, October 23, 2009 (0)
America's Obama Obsession
For 30 months the nation has been in the grip of a certain Obama obsession, immune to countervailing facts, unwilling to face reality, and loath to break the spell. But like all trances, the fit is passing, and we the patient are beginning to appreciate how the stupor came upon us, why it lifted, and what its consequences have been.
HOW OBAMA WON
Barack Obama was elected rather easily because, in perfect-storm fashion, five separate trends coalesced last autumn.
1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.
2) After the normal weariness with eight years of an incumbent party and the particular unhappiness with Bush, the public was amenable to an antithesis. Bush was to be scapegoat, and Obama the beginning of the catharsis.
3) Obama ran as both a Clintonite centrist and a no-red-state/no-blue-state healer who had transcended bitter partisanship. That assurance allowed voters to believe that his occasional talk of big change was more cosmetic than radical.
4) John McCain ran a weak campaign that neither energized his base nor appealed to crossover independents. McCain turned off conservatives; many failed to give money, and some even stayed home on election day. Meanwhile, the media and centrists who used to idolize McCain's non-conservative, maverick status found Obama the more endearing non-conservative maverick.
5) The September 2008 financial panic turned voters off Wall Street and the wealthy, and allowed them to connect unemployment and their depleted home equity and 401(k) retirement plans with incumbent Republicans. In contrast, they assumed that Obama, as the anti-Bush, would not do more bailouts, more stimuli, and more big borrowing.
Take away any one of those factors, and Obama might well have lost. Imagine what might have happened had Obama been a dreary old white guy like John Kerry; or had Bush’s approvals been over 50 percent; or had Obama run on the platform he is now governing on; or had McCain crafted a dynamic campaign; or had the panic occurred in January 2009 rather than September 2008. Then the trance would have passed, and Obama, the Chicago community organizer and three-year veteran of the U.S. Senate, would have probably lost his chance at remaking America.
America's Obama Obsession
.::. .::. Saturday, September 12, 2009 (1)
Can Confessions
Have you had it in the can?
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LBF says Nice on 9/14/2009
Excellent
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