FUN: Ebay is an interesting phenom

Thursday, October 19, 2006

I received an email from FTL about their auction.

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From: FTL-Updates@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:10 AM
To: FTL-Updates
Subject: [FTL-Updates] Just over 90 mins left!

Wow… someone might just walk away with 1,000 guaranteed impressions of their printed ad on the backside of the upcoming bumpersticker for less than $27. That’s the current price of the FTL auction. That’s less than three cents per impression for a direct mail campaign that would normally cost hundreds if not over a thousand dollars!

If you were thinking about bidding, now is the time. Don’t miss out:

http://auction.freetalklive.com

Thanks for listening,
Ian

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On a lark, I bid. (I was not even sure what I’d have put on it. Probably “IluvFTL?”. ;-) I was immediately outbid by someone else’s maximum bid. Interesting concept. So by doing nothing, I got you more money. Strange. Like a poker game? Except if you bluff, and your opponent raises, you get to keep your chips. Weird. Strange. Unsettling.

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ALUMNI: Alum from my defunct high school suggests a tontine

Thursday, October 19, 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine

I first heard of the concept on MASH. When the fellow proposed it it seemed a suitable ending of an era in Catholic education.

Sadly.

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LIBERTY: A great idea … if one could pull it off!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle389-20061015-01.html

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No decent country should have a standing military.

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PRODUCTIVITY: WIN (What’s Important Now?!?)

Thursday, October 19, 2006

http://www.freetalklive.com

I picked up a good productivity tip from the “younguns” at Free Talk Live. (The term “youngsters” seemed to torque their shorts a little when they read my email on their show.) In my daily commute, I listen to their FREE podcast. And, every so often, I mine a nugget. Here’s one.

Mark described his technique for deciding what to do do NEXT.

(That’s a problem I have with lots of urgent, important, trivial, nagging, projects, and processes that all compete for my time and attention. And, I have a job too.)

He described it as WIN – – – “What’s Important Now?”

Seems like a good approach to me. So now on each task switch, interrupt, or time out, I ask myself what is it?

Help’s me focus.

Capturing good stuff is important all the time. Hence this log entry. ;-) Excuse me, time to WIN!

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LIBERTY: One more thing the gubamint shouldn’t be involved in!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701263_pf.html

No Death Benefits for Studds’s Spouse
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; A19

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BOSTON, Oct. 17 — The federal government has refused to pay death benefits to the spouse of former congressman Gerry E. Studds (D-Mass.), the first openly gay member of Congress.

Studds married Dean Hara in 2004 after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts. But Hara will not be eligible to receive any portion of Studds’s estimated $114,337 annual pension because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act bars the federal government from recognizing Studds’s marriage.

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Watch how fast this gets changed now.

My question would be: Why is the gubamint involved in pensions anyway? Why is it involved in marriage — gay or straight? Why are they involved in all sorts of things, other than defending the States and maintaining order among the States (It’s supposed to be the United STATES of America!)?

There should be ZERO federal employees! Zero pensions! And, zero taxes!

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TECH: Microsoft has no viewer for Microsoft Project

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm#Project%20Viewer

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Microsoft has not provided a viewer for Project. However, it is designed with the Web in mind, which allows anyone with an Internet Browser or email facilities to view details. For a picture, try clicking the copy picture button (little camera on the standard toolbar). There you have the option of creating a GIF file which can be used with the Save As… HTML format or directly attached to an email. Save As HTML… > give a file name and Save > select an Export Map (or New Map) > Edit > Options tab check “Include image file in HTML page” > insert path and name of GIF image.

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Argh! That’s a bummer. I like the viewers to protect me from active content in Microsoft files. Sigh!

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RANT: What happened to blueberries this year?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

What happened to blueberries this year?

They are usually cheap and plentiful here in Jersey. Especially in the fall. This year they were scrawny and expensive and often unavailable.

Aside from the fact that I like them, they are reputed to have special unique anti-cancer anti-aging anti-everything benefits.

Whaaa, I want cheap blueberries!

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TECH: The signup for GMAIL has a flaw

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

It allows you to send repeatedly invites to the same email address.

I use it to generate extra email addresses that I can use for specific purposes.

Maybe they don’t care.

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TECH: LookOut, aka MSFT OutLook, has ANOTHER message “stuck”!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

An email I wrote yesterday, and “sent”, is stuck in the outbox. Argh!

No apparent reason. No fix possible.

Workaround is to copy it to a new message, send that, and nuke the stukee.

Argh!

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PRODUCTIVITY: IPRIORITIZE for a free 2do list. Now if they’d just do the 2dos.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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Ferdinand Reinke thinks that you would like iPrioritize and wants to invite you to sign up for a free account at http://www.iprioritize.com. iPrioritize provides online to-do lists to help you organize your work, chores, shopping lists, or just about anything else that you make a list for. So sign up today, and be sure to thank Ferdinand for making your life a little more organized.

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Who writes this hokey stuff? Why would anyone look to me as the exemplar or organization? Wanna see my home office? Live wires and papers all about. I’m trying this tool to see if I can be more motivated if I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Choo choo!

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