June 2009

Budget shattered

June 18, 2009

Wow! After the speed trap ticket, the gutter installation, the unexpected pool repair, the purchase of three pair of $14 shorts (what an extravagance!), the two service calls from the locksmith to remove and reinstall the complicated lock so the painter could refinish the door, and the unplanned lock repair, I’ve overrun this month’s credit-card budget [...]

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Support Iranian voters

June 17, 2009

Check out Room Farm’s report on what’s going on at Twitter about the Iranian election and what tweeters can do to support people demonstrating for fair voting there.   Will someone who can get into RF let Chance know the post that tells what other things people can do has been taken down, allegedly for [...]

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There’s Costco…and then there’s Costco

June 17, 2009

OMG. I just came from Costco Heaven.  On the way home from GDU, I trekked up and around to Paradise Valley Community College, site of my next part-time gig. From there the nice new Costco at Cave Creek and the U.S. 101 is sorta on my way. So I dropped by to pick up a [...]

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Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century

June 17, 2009

Given a choice, we fossils would have preferred that the Cretaceous had lasted a while longer. All these little mammals running around—pesky things, and they make all sorts of nimble demands.  Last night I went to log on to my credit union accounts and instead got a message informing me that henceforth the CU will [...]

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Caught in the act!

June 16, 2009

My criminal career proceeds apace. The other day I breezed past a camera in a Tempe speed trap and got a nice candid portrait of myself behind the steering wheel. Get this: when you turn north off University onto Rural Road, you turn onto a seven-lane thoroughfare. It’s large, it’s broad, it’s well marked, it [...]

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More on journalism’s Cheshire cat

June 15, 2009

  As we noted yesterday, journalism—even its most prominent avatars—is fading away like the Cheshire cat. Money Beagle left a winsome comment to that post, in which he remarks,  I guess great blogs like yours and mine will eventually have to save the day. Can’t let that one lay! It’s a broad concept that raises [...]

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