Category Archives: Personal

Productivity: You’re Doing it Wrong ...

Won­der­mark » Archive » #479; Oliver’s Busy Day Hint: When it feels this way, you need to change your method.

xkcd — A Webcomic — I Know You’re Listening ...

xkcd  —  A Web­comic  —  I Know You’re Lis­ten­ing I used to talk to my cat in much the same way (e.g. “I know you under­stand what I’m say­ing”) for exactly the same reasons.

Now ...

I’m cer­tainly no Sprint fan, but this is really neat. (Be sure to check out the full ver­sion for an infogasm.)

xkcd: Election ...

I actu­ally know the feeling here!

On the Dignity of Life ...

I’m a Chris­t­ian and I’m vot­ing for Barack Obama on Tues­day (in large part) because of his stance on life issues. I had intended to write a longer post about how I think a pro-life stance must be holis­tic, incor­po­rat­ing not only the issue of abor­tion, but I have not. So I will be borrowing words. […]

High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Bad for you, bad for the environment? ...

I started look­ing up high-fructose corn syrup after those dubi­ous pro­pogandacom­mer­cials about how “everything’s OK guys.” (I agree with the poster of the video that it does seem akin to a tobacco com­mer­cial.) Turns out it’s worse than I thought. I knew that import tar­iffs made sugar expen­sive and have dri­ven pro­duc­ers to use corn […]

Opt out of Red Plum ad circulars ...

In gen­eral, I throw out all cir­cu­lars and any mail addressed to “Res­i­dent”. By far the largest cir­cu­lar I get in the mail is Red­Plum, some­thing like 40 pages. I dug around and fig­ured out how to remove myself from their mail­ing list. Yay.

Sign of the times ...

Well Steve, you were right. And I think I’ll join you  —  at least in jump­ing Wachovia’s sink­ing ship. I’ve been dis­ap­pointed with them for a while. Their fees are incred­i­bly steep: $2 to use a non-Wachovia ATM, $32 if I over­draw my account (which hasn’t hap­pened for quite a while, thanky­ou­very­much), $10 to trans­fer money between accounts […]

Tumblr doesn’t play nice ...

They say hind­sight is 20/20, and often it’s vin­di­cat­ing. I haven’t looked back since I switched from Tum­blr to Word­Press. Host­ing my own blog is much more sat­is­fy­ing and I have much more con­trol and flex­i­bil­ity over my con­tent and its appear­ance. It’s reas­sur­ing to see that oth­ers have found the same. So I realized […]

My cousin’s close call ...

My cousin and her fam­ily recently had a close call: an 80-year old oak tree fell right in front of their house. They (and a lot of Ohio) got the tail end of Hur­ri­cane Ike, and you can see the sever­ity in the video their neigh­bor posted: What I didn’t real­ize until my grandma told […]

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