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Saturday, February 11, 2006

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Road conditions

Saturday, February 11, 2006

This is not a terribly exciting entry, but here's a quick picture of my new winter driver… It's a pretty modest vehicle (1993 Jeep Cherokee) in comparison to what I usually drive, but it'll keep us from sliding into a telephone pole in the Porsche until the roads are less icy! On Monday I'll put insurance on it and start training myself to maneuver it into our extremely tight garage.

In other vehicle news, as soon as the old '58 Corvette (I think that's the year) they're restoring is done, my trike finally can be finished off… Not that I've bothered with a license yet…
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Truth in advertising

Friday, February 10, 2006

…if by “sodium free”, you actually mean “sodium, free”.

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Slogan shirts

Thursday, February 9, 2006

 

From the twisted mind created with a mix of Walkerton water and a little too much BME, here are too proposed shirt designs. If you're an IAM member and want them, post your opinion (including color options; they'll print fine on anything) in the BMEshop forum.

As well as the design on the left (suitable for subincised guys, pierced guys, and I suppose anyone who finds it amusing in general), he's got a shirt dedicated to BME/HARD's “All Things Ass” subsection — the last subsection I ever expected would generate a shirt!

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Strange use of money

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

So I was looking at Their Levees – Our Levees and thinking about the US budget and how it should be able to deal with the problem… Popular Science is running a feature this month on different ways that New Orleans could be made relatively impenetrable to megastorms. For example, this massive storm surge is capable of handling thirty foot waves.

The problem they write, is the cost — a projected $500 million to $1 billion. The claim is that the government simply doesn't have that money to spend… But let's take a look at that statement. Ignoring things like the fact that the US has about two hundred spy satellites up and the latest one is costing ten times the maximum projected costs of the levees (at $9.5 billion), let's just look at Yankee Stadium, for which NY taxpayers are contributing half a billion dollars.

Sports stadiums regularly cost as much or more than the levees are projected to… I guess it's true, America really doesn't care about black people — unless they're dressed in a costume and performing for the entertainment of largely white crowds.

Anyway, in more pleasant news, I made a nice blueberry sauce:

It got good reviews.
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