I guess this gives me an excuse to move to a full up iPhone.
Apr 252009
Jan 012009
Not sure how long this will stay available but Fox is presenting the core of a Dave Ramsey Live Event. This runs about 50 minutes (i think the real events go 3-4 hours). Sarah and I have adopted the basic philosophy and it has served us well since going debt free (sans the house .. still working on that) 3 years ago.
Jan 012009
So it begins …… (a new year that is)
(photo by foxypar4 @ flickr)
Dec 162008
Trying out a couple of things.
First, this post should auto-twitter when i post
Second, this photo is being pulled from my Picasa web album via a plugin:
Third, this is a table (via a plugin):
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Fourth, a map via plugin:
Fifth, an embedded video (again plugin). This is video Sarah shot when we saw the shuttle launch in November:
Thats it!
Nov 072008
I’m really digging this quote right now:
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson
hat tip to the Living Like no One Else blog
Sep 242008
Just testing this thing out !
Jun 052008
First off, i totally agree with this statement:
Here’s how you can use the A La Carte Method for yourself. Cancel all the discretionary subscriptions you can: your magazines, annual Rhapsody plan, cable — even your gym. (It would be totally ridiculous to cancel your Internet, though. I’d cry like a little girl if I couldn’t get online from my house.) – emphasis mine
Now on to the meat. Ramti Sethi @ I Will Teach You To Be Rich has a look at the psychology of subscriptions and how its much better in most cases to buy things a La Carte as you use them.
The A La Carte Method: Use Psychology Against Yourself to Save Money
We are going to give this a whirl. There are enough choices now to download shows from iTunes and Amazon unBoxed that i think its possible, combined with the network shows we can get in HD via the Over the Air antenna that we can save money on the $65.00 per month Directv bill.
Comcast is no cheaper and the cost just goes up to add the capability to receive HD signals through the satellite. So we are going to try the internet.
To be fair, i can’t live without a Tivo (so dramatic!) so we are getting a TivoHD to record the network shows we do watch. Its a shame that Directv decided to orphan Tivo when moving to HD. This radical thinking may have never come up.
May 182008
Wow! This would have a been a great routine to do ‘back in the day’!
May 142008
Am i the only one that has philosophical problems with this statement (from this AP story):
“What we’re talking about is a one-half percent income tax surcharge on incomes above $1 million,” said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of the Blue Dog group. “So someone who earns $2 million a year would pay $5,000. … They’re not going to miss it.”
Italics mine. Its one thing to levy a tax but its quite another to use as part of the justification that they aren’t going to miss the money.
This really torks torques (thanks Louis 
) me.
Apr 262008
Okay .. so I’m a bit of a paper hoarder. Sarah has worked on beating this tendency out of me. Its been having an effect.
We’ve been working at it a long while. With the help of the Fujitsu Scansnap S300 I’ve made a ton of progress. This scanner allows me to scan anything that I’d like to save, file it electronically and toss the paper copy. This has made a huge difference. No more stacks of receipts, utilities bills, etc. Now they are scanned, recorded and tossed. Awesome.
Today we took 4 totes of paper to the community paper shred day event. Lots o’clutter. Decluttered.
Sarah is happy
Apr 182008
Pretty cool stuff. Sarah and I both were awakened this morning by a 5.4 earthquake at around 5:40am local time (4:40 real time .. because DST is dumb .. thanks Abdul). It lasted 10–15 seconds and definitely rattled the place. It appears the epicenter was around 135 miles to the southwest of us.
Here’s the scoop:
Local Blogs i follow:
The last one that i recall was in the late ‘80s. I was in a car at the time so i didn’t feel that one but i remember everyone talking about it.
Update: looks like the USGS is saying it was a 5.2 now.
This caused quite the discussion in our office last week since it was quite the increase.
Three Hendricks County gas stations agreed to refund customers after Attorney General Steve Carter’s inquiries about excessive pricing last week.
A Speedway and two Marathon gas stations on U.S. 36 set prices at $4.09 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline for a period of time last Friday, sparking complaints to the attorney general’s office. The stations agreed to provide customers with refunds of the difference between the market price at the time and the higher price — 70 cents a gallon.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080319/LOCAL/80319056
Very carefully as it turn out. Read here
Apr 112007
Sarah and I were quite the cooks this weekend. On Saturday, I constructed a Lasagna that i think turned out pretty darn well. It should be plenty of food to eat for lunch through the week.
Here are some shots:
Sarah is a better cook than me and a bit more ambitious. 
And likes to indulge in the sweet tooth when her allergies allow. To help to this end i recently found and purchased what i thought would be the perfect cookbook, Vegan Cupcakes take over the world. The first shot at a vegan cupcake would be:
I won’t make reference to the fact that Sarah went straight for a cupcake with tequila in it . Here’s a shot of the finished product
Taste wise they were fantastic and the icing very much tasted like a Margartia. Successful implementation to specifications.
On Sunday we whipped out a Vegetarian Chili:
Very meaty for having no meat in it.
Mar 252007
Way back in Aug 2005 i posted a map of the places in the world that i’ve visited. Here is a refresher:
Most of these were pass thru-visits on the way to other places. I do need to see more of the country, particularly out west. Continue reading »
Dec 152006
Jul 102006
She’s always lived up to the name. Queen of the house. Not very fast, she’d get there someday. I remember that she would sleep with her paws crossed (2nd from the bottom picture). Kinda cute .. for a cat that is
Sarah rescued her from the pound. We had her since before we were married (aquired during the ‘dating’ phase). This weekend her kidneys gave out and she succumbed today. The vet said she was pushing 15 years old. That’s pretty good for a cat. We’ll miss ya Deva.
Joe
Apr 062006
I should be more evil than this:
| You Are 40% Evil |
 A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well.In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. |
Feb 122006
This gives me some good meal planning ideas….
Jan 072006
Sounds like a good Sunday breakfast
Dec 262005
A few shots from Christmas 2005
More pictures after the link Continue reading »
Dec 242005
Awesome C-17s in formation
Nov 152005
This sounds awesome!
I had some Potato and Leek soup down at Epcot that was pretty darn good (and it was supposed to be authentic Irish to boot).
Nov 152005
