Not bad
12 miles in about 50 minutes, averaging 15mph for the ride. The first time I rode to Falls Bridge and back I was dead tired by the time I got home. Today was a good hard ride and I was ready for more!
Moved…
FYI, if you go to the old address http://blagomatic.wafflehouse.org/ you should now be redirected to http://mattstocum.com/. Hopefully this will work without any problems.
Computer Service Fee Schedule
With the recent economic downturn, it’s been hard for people to afford my standard rate of $100/hr. In an effort to make my services a bit more affordable, I present the following revised table of computer service rates:†
ETA: I thought this went without saying, but this list applies to female clients only. Sorry Phil.
On Smoking and Killing Kittens
The talk about the new cigarette tax (which I’m having an amazingly difficult time finding a story on) has me thinking about vice taxes. The general rationalization is that you put a tax on naughty behavior, that you can’t outlaw, in the hopes of decreasing demand.
What happens when it works though?
What makes sense to me is [...]
Are they trying to lose followers?
Vatican backs abortion row bishop
A 9 year old girl is raped by her step-father, becomes pregnant with twins, and then has an abortion. I don’t care where you stand on abortion, there is no way a 9 year old can be expected to carry twins to term. The pregnancy would have killed her, and the [...]
In other news…
I think I recognize about 50 kanji. Half way to JLPT 4. Neat!
Socks!
I’d just like to inform everyone that I now own 6 more pairs of socks. This is after running out of black socks three days in to the week.
Live blogging Lost again? (I can haz spoilers?)
Maybe it will work out better this week.