John Sokolovic received notice today that he is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics. This award was given for the extraordinary turnaround he has accomplished in the international community for the support of cold fusion research. While hasn’t actually achieved cold fusion yet, he has published papers and given speeches over [...]
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Recipe for fun
Ingredients:
4 Adults
5 Boys
Beach toys
Many gallons of gasoline
Parsley
Instructions:
Evenly distribute first three ingredients between two minivans. Add gasoline. Point vehicles east. Drive 4-5 hours until Boston is reached. Rest for 2.5 days. Drive north 1.5 hours to beach. Bake at 85 degrees for 2.5 days. Garnish with parsley and serve [...]
An Independence Day reflection
Haven’t read the Declaration of Independence recently? It’s worth a look. Reading it this year strikes a special chord given the absolutely shameful state of affairs in the New York state senate.
The first six grievances listed in the Declaration deal directly with the fact that there is someone (King George) standing in the [...]
Spreading the Wealth
Every now and then, George Will writes a piece that isn’t a) about baseball, or b) totally incomprehensible to me. Today was one of those days.
He wrote a great commentary that points out how America’s long-standing “surreptitious socialism” (his term) is intensifying of late. He gives several examples of how temporary government intervention [...]
Public Service Announcement
If you’re reading this and you’ve already voted – nice job!
If you’re reading this and you haven’t voted yet, go to the Start menu on your computer, select “Shut Down,” push your chair back from the desk, lean slightly forward, flex your quadriceps (you should now be standing), slowly rotate your torso towards the door, [...]
Removing inefficiency from filing taxes
I lamented in the previous post that the following process occurs for many of our tax returns:
1) Various distributed computers report wage and interest earnings to the IRS
2) These data are then printed out and mailed to taxpayers
3) Taxpayers fill out and mail their tax forms
4) IRS employees enter this information
5) There is some data [...]
Support small business… sort of…
Well, it’s almost election time so I figured I’d do my research. We’re past (most of) the posturing and I figure it’s about time to read up on where Obama and McCain stand on a few key issues. The key question for me is, “Which of the candidates has the interests of the majority in [...]
