I guess this gives me an excuse to move to a full up iPhone.

(photo by foxypar4 @ flickr)

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):

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!

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 

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.

 Wow!  This would have a been a great routine to do ‘back in the day’!

“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.

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