Americans! WARNING!! Never accept a VAT (or "national sales tax") unless you make sure you first repeal your income tax. No VAT for America!

My guilty pleasure: MXC

http://ping.fm/xAJbw Don't get eliminated!

Windows 7 Spain: 2 hr free d.l. and burn. 30 min install. Only needed one driver, Nvidia already had it on their site. Cool "Spain" theme.

silence is golden but duct tape is silver

Mother-in-law ran a failed clothing retail, wife got fired from a laundromat, & I'd kill for a top-load washer and a gas dryer right now.

week of having company over, can confirm: all females in my wife's family claim inability to smell mildew/mold, even in someone else's house

Updated to 10.5.7 both Powerbook 12" and Mac Mini Intel without a hitch. Also without any noticeable improvement in the things that bug me.

Steven Malanga on CNBC's "Closing Bell" with Maria Bartiromo

Bartiromo pwns Tasini

So, now that my president has got his: job-titles, first-place outward markers of success, his economic dominance; we should to stop trying?

"the Grendel got in again" I woke up the whole house laughing at the Simpsons again. sorry

Hasta La Vista, Arnold!: What California's Budget Mess Means for America

This open font, CartoGothic Std, is really making me happy right now. Free² http://ping.fm/go1ME

iTunes finally killed my account. I am staying overseas, and I can no longer buy on the U.S. store, and I will no longer. Dumbasses.

As cold and aloof we may seem as English speakers, we still start our letters, even business correspondance, with "Dear"

Unrealistic-birthday-wish: http://www.0-360.com/ want one so bad, I just wish I had some genius way to convince the wife I can't live w/o it

On Naked Short Selling from DeepCapture.com

Naked short selling - redefining systemic risk from Judd Bagley on Vimeo.

That's: Rexona solid and Ikea Pokal 17278 respectfully (I know, respectively... it's hilarious)

TMI time: The only deodorant that I can find around here that works, happens to be manufactured in Russia. Same for the glasses I drink from

my feeble attempt to offset my grey hairs with pectoral muscles will end all too little all too late.

Hey kids!
Want to make old people nervous?
Use these as ringtones...

http://ping.fm/n0vA1

An Engineer's Guide to Cat Yodeling (with Cat Polka)

omgwtfbbq

Substituting some strange meats for Jimmy Dean, and what my grandparents would have simply called, "breakfast" is sold as "Full English..."

None of the hotels use the phrase "continental breakfast." "'American buffet'" on the other hand, is better described as "all-you-can-eat."

So, per capita, a single individual in the U.S. can produce for export the same value of goods that it takes 4 people in China to export.