June 2010

Alexa: Wayyy kewl, but what does it mean?

June 16, 2010

The Alexa toolbar I added to the ineffable Firefox generates a fair amount of ego-boosting. Really. Where else, this side of Snow White, can you gaze into a mirror and have it murmur sweet nothings back at you? According to this sweet cooing program, Funny is busting its seams with fattening popularity. (If only Adsense [...]

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Moments of Fame

June 15, 2010

Gotta make this fast—The Client just sent the third iteration of his dissertation (lookin’ good!) and so will not have time to turn this week’s “Moments” into a general round-up. So: be sure to visit the carnivals and enjoy some of the entertaining, sometimes profound essays PF bloggers have published of late. Funny made it [...]

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Elite Liberal Arts Education: Is it a rip?

June 14, 2010

Over  at Free Money Finance, FMF and his readers are having a field day excoriating a young woman, one Cortney Munna, and her family for having made the apparently stupid decision to borrow $97,000 to send her to an elite private school, where she took a double major in the liberal arts (religious and women’s [...]

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Death by 1000 tiny annoyances

June 13, 2010

One of Harvey‘s “wings” snapped off, probably in an encounter with the loose drain lid that the Leslie’s guy didn’t bolt on correctly. This part is connected to a set of plastic posts on a larger, moving part. These posts sheared away, meaning both parts will have to be replaced. Annoyance factor (scale of 1 [...]

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In the Company of Dogs

June 12, 2010

Cassie and I awoke to a spectacular dawn, the outside air in the 70s. So beautiful was it that nothing would do but what we had to race outside for a long walk around the neighborhood and park. It was a cool and lovely morning, a few foggy-looking clouds floating in the distance, very San [...]

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Lazy Day Yakezie Roundup

June 11, 2010

Feeling a little under the weather today, having overdone with two or three 18-hour days in a row. The brain gone completely numb, I decided to cruise a few of the four score sites belonging to members of the Yakezie Challenge, in search of ideas and entertainment. Here’s some low-hanging fruit you may enjoy: Len [...]

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