If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I started blogging on 12-04-2008, so by my reckoning I have been blogging for exactly one year today. For those of you that are keeping score and computing batting averages, here are my stats

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They should at least find you handy.
It’s raining outside, yet it’s not dripping inside, so I am proud to note that I seemingly successfully sealed the previously leaky skylight when I was on the roof the other day. Apparently that job did not require an expert.
Or should I wait to see if it still holds [...]

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As far as I am concerned our civilization peaked with the Apollo missions and it has pretty much been downhill ever since. Modern astronomers typically prefer small robotic satellite missions over human space flight. The claim is that robots can do what humans can do only better and more effective. The reason is that robots [...]

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This past week, I have been working on setting up the website of a new non-profit start-up I am part off. We chose to use Joomla. One week ago I did not know any Joomla. I, therefore, figured that maybe, given that I have close to 1000 readers — at least that is what the [...]

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We need to fill up the propane tank today.
Living in an RV, even when hooked up, puts you in much greater touch with your resource use than living in an ordinary house. I think most people, by virtue of the growth culture they have been living in and still live in (hey, everybody still believes [...]

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From the brain of Charles Darwin
I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, …, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in [...]

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Fun link to a neural network that analyzes your writing style and tries to guess your gender.

Early Retirement Extreme: 67% man
The Simple Dollar: 74% man
Get Rich Slowly: 52% woman
Millionaire Mommy Next Door: 74% man
Retired Syd: 53% man
Frugal Bachelor: 57% man

What would be interesting know is to see if these percentages correlate with the gender of [...]

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I hate going up on the roof, but I hate scrubbing the roof even more so spending an hour up there today sealing a skylight was an absolute joy. I highly recommend it!
This was also my first experience with a caulking gun and let me tell you, they are not as fun as they look, [...]

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Like the occasional house fly, the notion that a $6000/year budget means that I must be living in squalor like a broke student or a pop star or whatever comes up sufficiently often to annoy me just a wee bit. Hence I vent; it solves both problems!

Consider this!
If you met me on the street, I [...]

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GE just set a new intraday low at 14.61 after which the stock went up and closed at 16.86 (I may be off on the last decimal). Apparently, I’m in good company today. Jeff Immelt (the CEO) bought 50,000 shares (apparently he has more money than I do, eh?) at 16.41 and the VP of [...]

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