I don't know if you guys have followed the whole south park v. scientology battle, but this is an interesting new development!
http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/pressrelease.asp?ID=134
Friday, April 07, 2006
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Netflix sues blockbuster
Oh to be a fly on the wall...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/265522_dvdsuit05.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/265522_dvdsuit05.html
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Successive time and date
Got this from someone I know:
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again.
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again.
Retirement savings and the ORP
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/265338_retiresavings04.html
ORP refers to teh Ordinary Reasonable Person for those of you not yet in the know. In law it is the standard you are held to if someone thinks you've been negligent. What would the ORP do? In the case of retirement savings apparently not enough.
This article points that most persons are not saving enough toward retirement. I attribute this to a failure in our schools to teach classes in personal finance. They should be required of all Freshmen in college. I have seen so many people ill equipped to retire. The sad part is the earlier you start saving the less you have to save. Most people don't think about retirement until 10 years before they are set to retire and by then they have lost the whole benefit of compounded interest.
I find it really ironic that people want our retirement system fully privitized, but want to make it mandatory??? Whatever.
ORP refers to teh Ordinary Reasonable Person for those of you not yet in the know. In law it is the standard you are held to if someone thinks you've been negligent. What would the ORP do? In the case of retirement savings apparently not enough.
This article points that most persons are not saving enough toward retirement. I attribute this to a failure in our schools to teach classes in personal finance. They should be required of all Freshmen in college. I have seen so many people ill equipped to retire. The sad part is the earlier you start saving the less you have to save. Most people don't think about retirement until 10 years before they are set to retire and by then they have lost the whole benefit of compounded interest.
I find it really ironic that people want our retirement system fully privitized, but want to make it mandatory??? Whatever.
Monday, April 03, 2006
I'll say it again
Cancer sucks.
I am remarkably sad today. This morning at 8 am we got a phone call. I knew it was Bruce's parents. No one calls us at 8 am unless it is bad news. Bruce's mom has been battling cervical cancer for the past two and a half years. The cancer has metastisized it is in her lungs now. She was staged 3b when the whole ordeal began. We didn't know what to expect in the beginning.
We went through this two years ago with Bruce' cousin Ben. www.benjacobson.com He died of pancreatic cancer at age 32. It was really hard on us all. Especially the last few weeks. Basically, in the end they recommended palative care and Ben came home to die. Hospice came. They put a hospital bed in the living room. Famiy came. Friends came. You had to fight for your five minutes to say goodbye, to make your peace, to say I love you. Ben had great grace and dignity even at the end. I think he did it for us more than himself.
They called this morning to say that the doctor was recommending discontinuing chemotherapy, which in so many words means that she is most likely dying. If they do her time will be "measured in months" whatever that means. I am remarkably sad and trying to plan for whatever is to come now, which is in fact a giant unknown. We are planning to go east in a couple weeks and I probably can assess this all better in person. We will see what is to come.
I am remarkably sad today. This morning at 8 am we got a phone call. I knew it was Bruce's parents. No one calls us at 8 am unless it is bad news. Bruce's mom has been battling cervical cancer for the past two and a half years. The cancer has metastisized it is in her lungs now. She was staged 3b when the whole ordeal began. We didn't know what to expect in the beginning.
We went through this two years ago with Bruce' cousin Ben. www.benjacobson.com He died of pancreatic cancer at age 32. It was really hard on us all. Especially the last few weeks. Basically, in the end they recommended palative care and Ben came home to die. Hospice came. They put a hospital bed in the living room. Famiy came. Friends came. You had to fight for your five minutes to say goodbye, to make your peace, to say I love you. Ben had great grace and dignity even at the end. I think he did it for us more than himself.
They called this morning to say that the doctor was recommending discontinuing chemotherapy, which in so many words means that she is most likely dying. If they do her time will be "measured in months" whatever that means. I am remarkably sad and trying to plan for whatever is to come now, which is in fact a giant unknown. We are planning to go east in a couple weeks and I probably can assess this all better in person. We will see what is to come.
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