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This is the scam.com discussion of a MLM scheme which involves writing down license plate numbers.

This is a great article on open-consulting. I find it similar to articles on open source.

This article is about consumer electronics, but could also apply to many of the products that we use in IT.  As far as I am concerned, I would rather just go to a website to purchase IBM equipment with whatever config I want.  Then i want to go back a year later, pull up my machine, and perhaps add an adapter or two to it.

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Well I just came from my polling place after having voted on about 13 constitutional amendments. They all sounded great when I read them, but I also had the distinct feeling that I didn’t know what the heck they were really about. Since they are all constitutional amendments, voting yes for any of them would technically mean growing the government since even the most benign would require some sort of money to operate. To add to the confusion, for example, when one of them was talking about wanting to buy land around military bases for expansion, there was probably one specific military base and one specific piece of land in mind. What does the military base land amendment do after it has accomplished it original mission, so to speak? In an attempt to learn more, I got some suggestions for research:

House Research Organization
Texas League of Women Voters

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I love this stuff, its hard to explain why.  I hope that one day as historians sift through what remains of culture, they don’t over look the little touches.  Notes about cleaning the coffee pot and not sitting on the counter are as much a part of what we are as anything we like to believe about ourselves:

To whomever put the watermelon in the ice machine:Please remove it immediately as well as the ice that it has been sitting in. Just as a helpful hint, the shell of a watermelon is not the cleanest in the world as it is handled by shoppers in the grocery store, gets transported in your vehicle and as well gets carried by you in to the building. Would you want to use the ice that is contaminated by all of that to put in your drink? Please be more considerate of others in the building and if you decide to bring an entire watermelon to work, please bring and use a cooler of ice to store it in, not the company ice machine.

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Well alot of this blog looks a little sentimental to me, especially given the sunset backdrop, but this story is a fascinating analysis of some of the ill-advised justifications that I probably try to use to pull the wool over my own eyes:

http://debowen.typepad.com/8hours/2009/05/creative-people-are-flaky-moody-broke.html