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I loved Obama’s press meeting last week. The man is cool under pressure, cracking jokes and calling out those who ask stupid questions. Past presidents just give you a long string of “no comment” lines. Our 24 news networks have turned news into idiocy this past decade. The networks have us expecting answers, dialog and [...]

Well, Micheal Jackson died last week, and I don’t want to speak too badly about him, but I do want to rant and rave about the media circus that followed. An interesting article was posted at CNN about how the death of Michael Jackson nearly brought the internet to it’s knees. Twitter went down. Micheal [...]

As if it weren’t obvious, but “yeah”, check out your local library branch for a great new book. Remember, it’s still free.
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In case you didn’t notice, sometime between the 70’s and now, our good manufacturing jobs went to Asia.
Now, if you live in most of small to medium town America, there are 3-4 top segments to get a job in. Check the classifieds and you’ll see jobs for health care and education [...]

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One of my morning joys is to wake up to a fresh pot of coffee and sit down in my robe to watch clips from CNN on the media center. In the evenings, I tend to roll over articles and posts on Google Reader to see what’s going on in the world.
In [...]

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This rant is almost a continuation of my other Carbon Footprints and Food post but it’s also a indicator of how society is changing towards a reduction in cars. I will try to contrast my life now compared to 1990 when I got my license. We’re hearing every day on CNN about [...]

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Here in Asheville, the number of vegetarians is quite high compared to national averages. Many restaurants and groceries have a multitude of vegetarian food to eat. I suppose that’s probably due to the number of hippies and beatniks populated throughout the area. Asheville seems to be a magnet for art, hippies, vegetarians, [...]

Many who know me often get a dose of my ‘tread lightly and enjoy life’ philosophy. I generally hate working for other people, no mater what it is, so I try any way possible to be efficient in my life. My main motivation is to save money, but lessening the impact on our environment and [...]

Usually I don’t double post, but I’m so furious at Linksys, that I have to get as many links flying around as possible. I have the lemon piece of crap WRT310N which I paid over $100 bucks for. If you are one of the many owners that are experiencing dropped connectons and overheating issues, ride [...]

I finally got a colleague to sell the old G4 PowerMacs in his office on eBay. I had to promise to wipe the drives and eBay the machine off. In actuality, one of the drives in the machine had gone bad, so I had to pull it out. Anybody who has worked on a G4 [...]