A friend mentioned to me today, on the subject of paid vacations in the U.S. compared with other countries, that someone he knows has a daughter living in the U.S. who thinks of it as a big labor camp, with people going years without vacations. My response was: “It’s a great place for a small [...]
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The U.S. as a Labor Camp, its Government Educational System and Being a Business Owner
Posted in Activism on 6 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most Reliable Car of All Time
Posted in Activism, Reviews on 18 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Might be the Toyota Starlet. I’d love a new, air-cooled Beetle though. It’s probably the real king.
Natural Selection
Posted in Activism on 1 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking the other day about the perceived increase in the number of people with cancer. Let’s say today cf. fifty or seventy-five years ago. Maybe it’s fact, maybe it’s not. Let’s assume for now that it is a fact that today we have more people afflicted with cancer. And other serious diseases. I [...]
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
Posted in Activism on 5 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read this Inc. magazine article online yesterday. In it, Jason Fried described for me what I consider to be my personal ideal scene working environment. I really came away from this article with a feeling of calm. I like to make note of how I come across things like this. In this case, I [...]
T-Mobile, iPhone, WebConnect plan
Posted in Activism, Macintosh/OS X on 27 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While driving home around 8:30 last night, I couldn’t send an email from my iPhone via Edge. Couldn’t browse the web either — I tried it as a test. Today, still no Edge for email and web. But I can update feeds with Newsstand. Today, however, when I tested web browsing, I got a web [...]
Giving Out Information About Others
Posted in Activism, Privacy on 4 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following is my longstanding firm policy in the event someone asks me for any kind of contact information about another. I’ve written it as instructions to make it easily reusable: 1. Tell the requester that you don’t give out others’ personal information without permission, including the requester’s own personal information. 2. Tell the requester [...]
We donated $50 to DownsizeDC.org.
Posted in Activism on 17 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This emailed article which I received today inspired me to do this. These guys are doing something that really makes sense and I support all most or all of the campaigns of theirs that I’ve read.
