Minor Thoughts

While I don’t like it when anyone gets hurt, on the other hand I find it difficult to work up sympathy for a bunch of people who are dead now because they promised an organization that in return for a minimum of $350 a week (as an enlisted) or $664 per week (as an officer), …

It turns out that my two-car lifestyle with no pets is just as ”sustainable” as the no-car plus pets lifestyle. Cool.

From The Dominion Post of New Zealand:

The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, ...

So I’ve been learning Krav Maga (the Israeli art of Arab-pummeling) for several months now, with a break for my nuptials – and this week I accidentally knocked the stuffing out of my instructor.

In retrospect this feels like both a victory and a tragedy: a victory, because it’s proof all my lessons over the last …

Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge – NYTimes.com

…the incandescent bulb is turning into a case study of the way government mandates can spur innovation.

… The first bulbs to emerge from this push, Philips Lighting’s Halogena Energy Savers, are expensive compared with older incandescents. They sell for $5 apiece …

Confirming what I’ve suspected: ”So far, June’s chill is one for the records”. http://bit.ly/o5LKx

Keith Hennessey: Basic facts on the General Motors bankruptcy. http://bit.ly/kJJFg

Ian Murray on GM: Cut out the union liability and the requirement to build small cars and you have a profitable company. http://bit.ly/7cmsz

GM files for bankruptcy. http://bit.ly/axWCW It should have happened a year ago and it should have happened without government bailouts.

Hooking up twitter to the blog. We’ll see how this goes.

Bits: The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?

Many countries have faster and more widely available high speed Internet service than the U.S. It has a lot to do with their urban density, not our poor technology.

In case you were wondering.