I’m not a huge fan of Amazon, given my past experience with the company but, as the largest retailer in the world, it’s sometimes impossible or impractical to avoid it. The AmazonSmile program had made it more tolerable for me to, on occasion, order products from the smile.amazon.com URL instead of the customary www.amazon.com. At — Continue reading »
A Better Way to Fight Scam Calls
📆 September 19, 2020
📂 Social # Robocalls, Scam 🗨 No Comments
The usual advice on handling scam calls has been to not answer unknown caller id’s or hang up immediately and to not interact, lest the scammers will flag the number as live and will call it more often. However, a recent extensive study out of NC State has confirmed what I’d always suspected and that — Continue reading »
Bob Ross, The Master of Painting
📆 October 31, 2015
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Life as a young man in college can be wild sometimes but one of my greatest memories of peace and tranquility was watching Bob Ross paint on the PBS program, The Joy of Painting. I don't know how I got hooked, but I loved The Joy of Painting from the first time I saw it — Continue reading »
Do Not Iron Your Shower Liner
📆 March 15, 2015
📂 Social # IKEA 🗨 No Comments
... and don't bleach or dryclean it either. While changing my IKEA vinyl shower liner today, for some reason I noticed the back side of the package. It's weird already that IKEA needs to warn the consumer against machine washing/drying, bleaching, ironing, and drycleaning the $5 liner, but it's telling that only the US consumers are given these — Continue reading »
Lima, Peru
📆 September 12, 2014
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A couple of photos from Lima, Peru where I visited earlier this year. Google's Picasa did a good job stitching a few photo fragments to make panoramic views. Click to see full size. The first one is right off the Lima coast in the Mira Flores district. Surfers are visible in the Pacific. The second, a — Continue reading »
The Rio, Las Vegas
📆 August 17, 2014
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A few shots of Las Vegas from the top of the Rio hotel where I rode their newly opened Voodoo zip line. — Continue reading »
Reforming alimony rules - Florida
📆 April 13, 2013
📂 Financial,Social # Alimony, Divorce 🗨 No Comments
Finally the wheels of justice have begun to ever so slowly move towards logic and fairness. This time it is in the state of Florida. States are waking to the reality that alimony in many cases is but a racket perpetrated from one spouse on another and permanent alimony is a specially cruel form of — Continue reading »
Alimony Rethought
📆 April 10, 2013
📂 Law,Social # Alimony 🗨 No Comments
Kudos to the New Jersey lawmakers for presenting a bill that would abolish permanent alimony. This is not a male/female issue. It's a fairness and common sense issue. Once a marriage is dissolved, the couple should be able to fairly divide up their assets and move on. Some form of temporary spousal support may be — Continue reading »
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