A few non sequiturs
1. Why don't men wear hats any more?
2. How to get more people to vote: implement a sort of psuedo bottle deposit scheme. Charge an extra $50 to everyone on his income taxes, and have the $50 refunded iff he votes. This is similar to the paper-trail discussion I had with some folks a while ago: to prevent corruption of the voter machine software, print out a receipt every time someone votes, listing the candidates that person chose. Then have a perforated section that does NOT list the candidates chosen, only the fact that person XYZ has voted. Staple aforementioned section to annual tax return, and voila, $50 refund. (Of course, then it becomes an easy trick to forge that little receipt, so we'd have to implement some US-Treasury-style security features in the paper.)
3. In the past two and a half hours I have consumed two cups of black tea and one cup of coffee.
4. I want to bake some pumpkin cheesecake. Does anyone have a good recipe which uses fresh pumpkin?
5. This week's new word: ecdysiast.
6. If you could pick your own seven-character vanity license plate, what would it read?
2. How to get more people to vote: implement a sort of psuedo bottle deposit scheme. Charge an extra $50 to everyone on his income taxes, and have the $50 refunded iff he votes. This is similar to the paper-trail discussion I had with some folks a while ago: to prevent corruption of the voter machine software, print out a receipt every time someone votes, listing the candidates that person chose. Then have a perforated section that does NOT list the candidates chosen, only the fact that person XYZ has voted. Staple aforementioned section to annual tax return, and voila, $50 refund. (Of course, then it becomes an easy trick to forge that little receipt, so we'd have to implement some US-Treasury-style security features in the paper.)
3. In the past two and a half hours I have consumed two cups of black tea and one cup of coffee.
4. I want to bake some pumpkin cheesecake. Does anyone have a good recipe which uses fresh pumpkin?
5. This week's new word: ecdysiast.
6. If you could pick your own seven-character vanity license plate, what would it read?