Or, in my case "The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Being a Complete, Moronic, Stupid, Idiot, Greedy, PUTZ ( Read more... )

One final comment [about 4 July's Higgs-like boson announcement]. It did not escape my attention that the mostly European LHC team made this announcement on July 4th. If the U.S. Congress had continued funding the Superconducting Supercollider in the 1990s, yesterday’s discovery would have been made a decade ago, and most of the glory would have ( Read more... )

So, for reasons which I probably can't quite elucidate, I'm looking up various things on the British Library. In a "Further Reading" section I find the book Inside the British Library by Alan Day (1998). I go to the BPL catalog to see if they have it.

They do!!

...for in-library use only.

Gods damn them!!!

We're coming up on four years, amazingly. I remember being at someone's house with Stevie almost four years ago watching the returns come in for the election that gave us Obama. As CA surprisingly (for me) put us over the top I remember calling Bill in DC asking if it was real, asking if that really did it. It had. We grinned. We cried. It was an ( Read more... )

So, I'm doing bills two days ago. I'd not been a good boy with regard to reconciliation so I had a months worth of entries to do. I did them. At the end Cambridge Trust said I had about $1500 more than I said I had. Weird. Now that had to be a problem with something big, not just someone forgetting to input the 70k times a week I'm at Dunkin Donuts ( Read more... )

Black Friday needs to be outlawed, pure and simple. That's all there is to it.

Black Friday is all the worst aspects of the consumer end of Capitalism run wild. It needs to be banned and outlawed for simple public safety and order.

In the Rome Walmart, a city of ~25K people now, at 0004ET, an employee was trampled and a woman was stabbed over a ( Read more... )

So, here I am trying to get some new software. Can they make this simple? Nooooooooooooooo!

Upgrades! (From what version to what version ( Read more... )

I've not had time to write about this subject like I'd like to, but...

Israel Approves 1100 Settler Homes in Gilo

This is just the latest of many reasons why I very largely (but not completely) support Palestinian President Abbas's UN Membership Bid.

Saudi Woman to be Lashed for Defying Driving BanYea. This was also the nation the majority of the 9/11 terrorists had citizenship with ( Read more... )

So, the buyers are now going for finanicing and are having an appraisal done of Darrowby House.

Meanwhile we now have to assume that we will have no porch for Darrowby House for the sale. This will change the purchase price even more. So, I'm basically looking at losing $33k on the house at this point ( Read more... )