Archive for August 28th, 2009

Random notes from a Friday night dinner.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

First of all, if any of my friends (or even blog readers who are not friends) are considering purchasing Snow Leopard from Amazon, here’s the link that gives me a small cut. Also, someone made a specific request for the ASUS DVDRW external drive.

To keep this from being a 100% “Buy Amazon! Give me money!” entry, I want to mention a web log that’s new to me; by way of Lawrence, we have Lovely Listing. One entry that he found particularly striking was the velour people. Lawrence also included this link, but I’m not sure where he found it on Lovely Listing.

When he mentioned the names Arakawa and Gins, I thought they sounded somewhat familiar. Indeed, they were; it turns out Arakawa and Gins were two of Bernie Madoff’s clients. (That second link is by way of Nancy Nall, who has some pungent things to say on the subject.)

Principles.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I’m about 99 and 44/100ths percent Liberatarian. Every so often, however, something comes along and makes me question my principles.

For example, when I see that the State of Texas has approved personalized license plates that sell for $395 a year, I’m tempted to endorse increasing the income tax rate to 90% for anyone dumb enough to pay that kind of money for a license plate.  (The same applies to anyone who would pay $4,295 for a tone arm to improve the playback of their 78s,  or $500 for an Ethernet cable.)