It is unlawful to knowingly cause, make or allow unreasonable noise to emanate from property under ones control, which disturbs another, and to refuse or intentionally fail to cease the unreasonable noise when ordered to do so by a police officer. “Unreasonable noise” includes loud, raucous, frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds made by: ( Read more... )

• Crate of Cup-a-noodle from 1987
• Large jug of tequila, half consumed
• Warning sign about not using "hands to scoop" trail mix because "it's nasty"
• Nutrition label on the individual-wrapped CostCo muffins - 920 calories
• This:
  
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We could have had a couple of these:


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1 lakh = 100 K

Great post on why many of us parents have no regrets (up to the birth of our kids)

Parenthood as the Trump of All Past Regret

"...any change in my life prior to my children's conception would have led my children not to exist."

"...Since I wouldn't want to change any event prior to my children's conception, I have nothing to regret. And since I ( Read more... )

Back from Vegas... back to the rain, back the chaos of work, back to the inbox of 1108 unread messages.

Not much time to blog, but I'll link to this post from the great Gene Spafford under the heading Great Minds Think Alike ( Read more... )

Yoder’s Canned Bacon

Japanese Spider-man?

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or

Italian Spider-man?

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A quote worthy of Heidi: "Who controls our data controls our lives."

Great essay, Our Data, Ourselves by Bruce Schneier.

Bruce's key talent is cutting to the heart of thorny privacy and security issues in way that's accessible to noobs ordinary folks.

Coincidentally, I also was ranting about a different facet of the same jewel over my ( Read more... )

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