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July 17 10 Reasons Why Terry is Just a Bit Mad
Ok, this gentleman, and I mean that in the most respectful way gave the following reasons:
1. His personal load balancing schema wasn’t working! 2. He saw God in the Cloud. (We saw soft puffy things.) 3. “Directories and permissions, that’s all I do. When can I do some real work?” 4. “You’re just putting crap directories up on these sans anyway, you don’t need any damned access until you take the directory naming quiz.” 5. For austerity measures, someone changed the coffee from Peets to Dunkin’ Donuts 6. “A gremlin blew up my SimCity group therapy forum” 7. “Mount this during the next staffing budget meeting” 8. “Someone took my Aeron and now I have a tarball stuck on my ass” 9. “When people stop forgetting their passwords, perhaps I’ll “unforget” yours. 10. “You'll get access when you take my security policy as well as my game theory just a little more seriously.” July 16 A few things I bet this guy can't do...
July 02 What Would JFK Say? Manipulate the Markets or Solve the ProblemIf JFK were alive today, would he give us the same charge about oil that he did for the space race? It took NASA only a few short years to go to the moon. Rockets had been around for a long time before the space race; however, it took only a few short years to pull together and get it done. Would he set our hearts on fire to solve the oil problem just like they were to get a man on the moon? Yesterday, one of my favorite songs played on the radio: "Beds are Burning" by Midnight Oil. When it came out in 1986, I thought it could be a timeless song. As it played yesterday, all I could think of was the line "it's time to pay the rent." Only hours before: 1. On the way to an appointment, FIVE new Bentleys with Michigan plates passed me going south on Interstate Highway 93 at 80 miles an hour. They must have been "touring." According to FuelEconomy.gov, a Bentley Arnage gets 15 miles per gallon on the highway and 10 in town. Do Bentley owners complain about fuel efficiency? I don't see many going on road trips. I'm pretty sure the Bentley demographic doesn't do roadtrips. 2. Early in the morning, I saw this crazy video of Newt Gingrich posted June 10th on YouTube.
Newt, speculators will drive prices up in any market whenever there is destabilization or imbalance. Certainly, we'd like prices to go down but at what cost? Which problem do we fix first? Is it typical for the US (us) to focus on prices instead of just doing the right thing? Once the economic problem is fixed, do we still focus on demand for the right reasons? Certainly, putting reserves on the market will drive prices down but shale oil? More drilling? Certainly market manipulation might work - but only temporarily. Why didn't Newt state the consumption problem first? Isn't it clear that its not just the cost of oil but what its used for and the damage it causes? 3. I got stuck in traffic - for 45 minutes. How does this figure into my mileage? 4. Yesterday, a WSJ article quoted a consultant to GM as saying it will take eight or ten years for GM to engineer their lineup to get mileage up to 40 MPG. In the mean time, I guess we're all "paying the rent." What say you: Manipulate the market now or let economics drive energy innovation?
June 18 350 - A Simple Number - 350.org - an important messageWhat is your carbon dioxide output? Scientists say that 350 PPM is the magic number each person on this planet needs to be at to keep the world at safe enough levels to continue life.
Here's a great start at creating awareness for this important number.
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