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Monthly Archives: March 2009
To Those of You Paging Out for On-Call Support
You’d better have a damn good reason for waking me up. Ask yourself this: “Is somebody dying?” No? Then it can wait until morning.
Posted in rant, Work
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What do the Professionals Bring to the Table?
With the office abuzz with rumors that IBM might purchase Sun, I’m tempted to ask myself if I really needed any reminders why I don’t read trade publications.
Freeze Tag
As previously mentioned, the school district needs to trim about $18.5 million in order to avoid a tax increase.
Teaser
Really, the cover of a compact disc should not be any reason to purchase it, and yet for some reason I want to get this one instead of the several that are recommended as having better performances. This is not … Continue reading
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Against the Time Change
Really it’s not the shift in noon that I’m against — though there is a certain rightness to being able to look up at the sun and say, “ah, yes, it’s mid-day” — but that there’s a change at all. … Continue reading
The Impact of the Daylight Saving Time Change on Traffic Accidents
It seems to me that accidents would increase during the transitional period surrounding the switch between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. And apparently others have asked this question, and looked at the data to see if what effect the … Continue reading
Friend or Foe?
I’ve added Google Friend Connect. I see that Feedburner says that there are 164 subscribers today, so I expect to have more than two members on the site.
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Air Conditioners
The Big Sister had an informed response to the President’s suggestion that we send our children to school all year. They’d have to buy air conditioners!
Receipts
Well this is interesting. I was looking at the deficits in this table, and noticed something: the receipts. That, and the title clearly says from T. Roosevelt, but the data only extends back to C. Coolidge.
Time Enough
Apparently President Obama remarked on education yesterday. For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and perpetuated our educational decline. Obviously Washington hasn’t been involved enough in education, so he proposes more interference. … Continue reading
Recommendations
John Battelle made some comment about Facebook and Twitter that Rick Klau shared in Google Reader the other day, and which I’m too lazy to find the link to at the moment, but the gist of which was that sites … Continue reading
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Pretend You’re a Chainsaw
During a depression, wages are sticky downward. That is, they do not drop quickly, though prices do. Instead, jobs are lost. Fine. I’m going to pretend I’m John McCain and take a chainsaw to the Arlington budget. In order to … Continue reading
Painful Balancing
The Arlington Central School District is treating this budget planning a bit differently than the past few, because of the severe fiscal pressures. This is a good thing, and long overdue. Too bad they didn’t do this during the fat … Continue reading
Somebody Watching Over Me
In Sleeper (1973), there is discussion between Miles and Luna over belief in God. Luna starts, asking Miles. Miles responds in a typically Allen fashion. After Luna complains that she doesn’t understand anything Miles says, he asks if she believes … Continue reading
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Tanzanian Millers
Why aren’t there more local millers in Tanzania? Or, why is international aid or investment required in order to process cassava, as this story on Marketplace seems to suggest? Sounds like there’s a missed opportunity there.
Handicapped
I’ve found that I put off going to work because I know the Internet connection there is limited.
Logistical Speculation
I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in my high school textbook. The chapter on Schlieffen’s Plan brings to mind a question. What … Continue reading
