Austin is nice. Good Barbecue and nice people. Home to University of Texas, a great school with cutting edge buildings.
I just don’t really get the whole Texas pride thing yet. Everywhere I go I see Texas this and Texas that. Even the cars license plates have Texas written on them in a font almost larger than the number itself.… read more “All Texas’d Out”
Public officials should not be allowed to campaign for a new job while still holding their current job, especially since they do so while still being paid by us.
Public officials should also not be allowed to set their own salaries, retirement pensions or benefit packages. As a matter of fact, they should receive no benefits other than a salary pegged at the median Americans salary.… read more “Public Officials Restrictions”
Also check out Wikipedia:
Ray Kurzweil has some very interesting ideas, especially around the exponential increases in technology. He has an idea he calls the singularity- its the point in time in which computers begin to create innovations of their own and our technology advances even faster than it ever has before. Read a full description of the idea here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
I just watched a great movie on the Christmas Truce of 1914 when young men from both sides sent to fight and die in World War 1 spontaneously rebelled against their commanders in order to celebrate the holidays together. Bitter old men in powerful positions unfortunately cause far too much conflict in the world. Read more here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
I have a helicopter outside my office moving air conditioning units to the roof of a building next door. Probably a dangerous job.
We got kicked out pf the office early today so they could do a cockroach cleaning. Took the dog to a dog park.
Finishing this 1000 piece puzzle. Jordan and I worked on it together over the last two nights.