Best Colbert Ever!
HT to BuffaloGeek for this gem… the best Steven Colbert piece ever!
The Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil masses are over. We’ve made our trips to the Broadway Market for all things Polish, Antoinette’s for chocolate, and Galley’s Nursery for Easter flowers. All that’s left to do is run out to my Aunt’s for brunch, and then back here to cook up a ham, as…
Time has a good article called The Clean Energy Scam on how the currently-politically-correct biofuel movement is exasperating environmental, economic, and social issues, not fixing them. Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to…
I was thinking about writing an update on Facebook about the latest in our home building adventure when I remembered – hey – we have our own blog. We pretty much stopped writing here when Facebook and Twitter got popular, exchanging blogging for microblogging. But since microblogging became social media which is now mostly everyone…
Poorly designed websites, and arbitrary security policies peeve me. Why is it that my online banking sites never require me to change my password, but my healthcare reimbursement account site, on which I cannot do anything except look at what claims have been paid and what my balance is, now requires me to change my…
I just completed my annual review of our 2006 spending and setting up our budget for 2007. Starting back in 2000, after I graduated from college and got a “real job”, I set up a simple spreadsheet that let me keep track of how much money I was spending and on what. I knew that…