Yesterday when Maureen, Ros and Norah stormed the shops in downtown San Luis Obispo, I had to follow along seeing that I am the cash box. I don’t mind doing a little shopping with the women folk, but I really don’t understand the process. After 20 minutes my nerves start to itch. My anxiety level…
Kevin Drum notes that any talk about peak oil is moot if manufacturers are close to peak production.
Being a sucker for a new frontier I purchased an iPhone last night, or maybe I should say that my bank purchased an iPhone and in exchange I gave the bank another piece of my soul. And I did this knowing full well that the iPhone would make my life into a living hell. Aside…
One of the epiphanies behind David Allen’s GTD process is the fact that you need to break tasks down into “next actions.” For instance, one of my to-dos is the 30,000 mile service on my Jeep. But to do this service I have to do a lot of smaller steps. For instance, before I change…
Popular Mechanics, the perennial bastion of testosterone, offers up 25 Skills Every Man Should Know. Some of the items on the list are editorial are no-brainers, such as Back Up a Trailer or Clean a Bolt-Action Rifle. Well, duh. Those are the basic minimums for manly behavior. Some of the other entries border on wtf?…
This past week I felt a little like a kid who got a pony for Christmas…and a firetruck. First comes the new Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, and next comes Gmail with IMAP. Using Gmail as an uber-account for all my mail accounts, I might be able to defrazzle my inbox at last. Using Apple’s…
