The pink horse of the gold digger Apocalypse

Check out SugarDaddyForMe.com. It's where attractive young women meet wealthy men, online! It has the notable quote

Men want the younger and more attractive women. And, women, want the man with the bigger and more sheltered cave.

RIP Bill Buckley

He passed away while working at home at the age of 82, which I'm sure is the way he would have wanted it.

I saw him speak and started reading his books in my junior year of college. Now that I think about it, he gave a 90 minute speech with style, no notes and no missteps.

I'm sure I'll have more thoughts about it later, but for now, Rest in Peace.

Quote of the moment

From Megan McArdle on Adderol

But if you don't like the self you got, surely you're entitled to murder it and replace it with something better. Whether or not your true self is the sick one or the better one, you only have one life and limited scope for action; why should you fritter away your opportunities just because nature destined you to be scattered or sad?

Quick Link Roundup

• ASP.net best practices
• The Georgia Encyclopedia
• A quick start guide to SilverLight
• A periodic table of visualization methods
• Patrick Lang on Obama - featuring the notable line that Obama is the "Trophy Messiah"
• The first look at SilverLight 2.0
  

The bookcase is nearly done

I still need to come up with the footer, but here it is, it's eight feet tall by four feet wide.

On the turning of 35

I turn 35 and Castro resigns! Who knows what else will happen this year...

Somehow I thought it would be different. Apparently it hasn't made me any more prompt with blogging since my birthday was actually Sunday.

In any case, Schelling Point now has it's own Wikipedia entry.

Saturday links

• Deputy dumps man out of wheelchair - man then gets ahold of courthouse videotape, it reaches the media, and now that deputy is charged.
• Danish media reprints controversial cartoons, and show far more courage than American media outlets.
• Drunken Orgies Tainted System says Florida prison boss.
• Police Chief accused of improper chats retires - this is interesting. The police department in question was famous for find people trying to entice minors. Relevant quote

  Lindsey said Murray used his city-owned computer to chat online with women during an ongoing investigation into local massage parlors used as fronts for prostitution.
  All the department's computers, except for one used for the continuing Internet child sexual predator sting operation, are monitored by a keystroke program.

  
  Why would the only machine in the department that produces intentional evidence NOT have the keylogger installed?
  

• Tax me more fund raises little revenue
• The law and economics of pirates
• An aerial photo of San Francisco in the age of Earthquakes
• Fake cops rob family - this will be a growing problem I fear.

Most of these factor info my coming law enforcement meldown/feedback mismatch post I'm going to write one of these days...

The internet says I agree with Ron Paul

Via Dan, check out Glassbooth, it's a decent political survey tool. I scored

Ron Paul - 81% - Huckabee - 68% - McCain 62%

Medical Marijuana and Drug Policy very similar
Trade and Economics very similar
Taxes and Budget very similar
Gun Control very similar
Civil Liberties and Domestic Security similar
Iraq and Foreign Policy very different

How about y'all?

A good article

On gang life in Los Angeles

Marching Toward Hell

Michael Scheuer's new book Marching Toward Hell, America and Islam After Iraq came in the mail today, I've read the first 20 pages or so, it looks to be a very good read. The man is the Merle Haggard of foreign policy.

Tuesday morning link roundup

• Berkeley wants the Marines out - not surprising given their history. We're in the age when everyone delights in acting according to stereotype.
  
• More biofuel scams
• This looks cool
• I'll be attempting somethign like this soon
• Multiple video chat
• A brilliantly simple image stabilizer

Staining complete

On to the varnish!

Just in time for Valentines day!

From this article from The Atlantic

Now, though, I realize that if I don’t want to be alone for the rest of my life, I’m at the age where I’ll likely need to settle for someone who is settling for me.

What I've been up to

The massive bookcase is closing in on final. I don't think I would choose this design again.

The workshop


The Bookcase - it's eight feet tall by four feet wide by 11 inches deep.

Sorry for the light blogging (again)

Work has been hectic, and house projects have taken up the remainder of my free time. On another note, the bookshelves near completion.

This is no ordinary Tuesday

My predictions are Obama and Huckabee here in GA. On a related note, I met my first Ron Paul door to door guy on Saturday, he seemed very nice. He gave me a bumper sticker too.

Before I go vote, here are some links that caught my eye:

• Barstool Economics
• Leading denominations by location
• Your tax dollars by at work - Atlanta cop and Duluth cop in shoot out
  

All politics is door to door

I got my first door to door Ron Paul campaigner today. He was a nice guy, he said I was the first guy he'd met in our neighborhood who intended to vote for Ron Paul on Tuesday.