Gmail's little ads are spooky sometimes. Here's one that just came up: How To Keep A Man In Love - [URL DELETED] - Learn The "Secret Psychology" To Getting A Man Hooked For Good.

I was in Belize for a week and a half last month, my first vacation out of the country since 1976. Unfortunately, I was in a car accident the first hour I was there, and spent the rest of the vacation dealing with serious lower back pain. But I did manage to get out on a couple of occasions to take some pictures.

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There's a lot of finger-pointing going on right now about who's to blame for the coming Great Depression II. My feeling is that there is no particular Evil Villain other than the ordinary human attributes of hysteria and fear.

I remember reading and paying close attention to articles in The Economist around 2003 ( Read more... )

Forget the happy talk. Here's the real story.

The cottage I'm planning on building isn't as small as the ones in this video, (partly because of the piano). But the idea is similar: build modestly, don't borrow money, minimize stuff.

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This morning I deleted my accounts at Facebook, Myspace, and OKCupid ( Read more... )

Here's an eye-opening political quiz. I got most of them wrong.

A friend and I foolishly decided we wanted to visit the newly reopened California Academy of Sciences yesterday. We drove up to the city ( Read more... )

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP ( Read more... )