“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.” Roman Payne

I've just always loved this person on the street response from The Onion:

The Dow and Nasdaq have been extremely volatile of late, plunging one minute and soaring the next. What do you think of all the wild fluctuations on Wall Street?

"The dip was just a brief aberration. In fact, we can look forward to 30, 40 years of steady growth, until the world ( Read more... )

Based on a few minutes research and limited knowledge on these things, it appears that parking tickets are not tax deductible, no matter how they are incurred, because fines paid to the government cannot be deducted. Even if incurred in the course of unavoidable business situations, the tax code does not want to encourage people to break the law. ( Read more... )

So I have this issue with buying books. I need to take a break. The piles are getting insane again even though most of the books are boxed away. Here are the most recent purchases. I think I bought all of these on the same day about two weeks ago. I hope by listing them here, I will encourage others to check them out, but I also now have a list of ( Read more... )

Where does time go ( Read more... )