February 2012
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An Attack on Women, or not?
I just read a blog post about how religious institutions not wanting to cover birth control as part of their health care is an attack against women. I’ll refrain from sourcing the blog post to try and avoid the cyber-bullying that goes on for anyone that doesn’t goose-step nicely for the twitterverse.
In an effort to combat your tunnel vision, let me start by saying that I have no...
January 2012
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Compensation: A Matter of Perspective
When you think of what you get paid, do you consider your benefits? How do you differentiate between pay and benefits to begin with? Have you ever gotten a job offer like this?
“We’ll pay you $90,000 per year
$55k in money paid directly to you
$20k for health insurance
$10k for retirement
$5k for several other benefits”
If you have, I’d love to hear about it. I...
September 2011
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All Else Being Equal... But It's Not
Yet another article in the fight over teachers unions. I amended that opening statement because I think the fight really is far more with the unions than teachers. Given recent events here in Wisconsin, I absolutely feel that the unions really only care about preserving their own existence and will throw their members under the bus without hesitation if they think it will help that.
In my...
February 2011
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How not to be constructive 101
I don’t know the “whole” story here, and quite frankly, nobody seems to for that matter. All I’m able to find on this whole state budget proposal fiasco is a bunch of vitriolic propaganda like the ad above. However,I certainly don’t like the way people are responding to this. I don’t care if you think the proposal is good or bad, this is not a civilized,...
January 2011
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Converting iTunes music to MP3s
I noticed a few people having problems getting their music to players that presumably do not handle AAC format files, so I thought I would type up a little how-to.
Music purchased from the iTunes store is an M4A file. They’re similar to MP3s and playable by iPods and many other players, but they use AAC encoding instead of MP3.
If the player only handles MP3s, you will need to convert the...
June 2010
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May 2010
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Health Care Reform
I was just wondering if somewhere in that monstrosity of a bill there was anything about requiring care providers to bill patients in a timely manner?
Have you ever gotten a bill from a provider like six months after the date of service and then they have the stones to put “Upon receipt” as the Due Date? The hospital and clinic here do this all the time. You don’t get a bill for...
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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iPad
HAL-9000: What is going to happen?
Dave: Something wonderful.
HAL-9000: I’m afraid.
Dave: Don’t be. We'll be together
(thx Laurian Gridinoc)
“You know, we forget half of what they teach us in school, but when it comes to...”
– Morgan (Criminal Minds)
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Five MFin' Stars!
I have learned from organizing my iTunes library, that you need to be more honest with yourself when rating things for those ratings to have any meaning.
It’s no wonder all sorts of stupid videos show up on the Most Popular list at YouTube. Nobody seems to know how to rate anything but five stars or one star. Everywhere you go it’s like this. Go to any online store, Yelp, the iTunes...
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My First Circa!
I just ordered my wife and I our very first Circa notebooks. Her birthday is tomorrow and I think she’ll like this. Probably not as much as I do, but most people look at me quizzically when I get rather giddy over office supplies.
She already has a day-planner and Circa is out of most of the 2010 calendar stuff anyways, so I got her the Meal Planner sheets and Recipe Cards. She likes to...
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Definition: Discriminate
Source: Merriam-Webster
intransitive verb
1 a : to make a distinction <discriminate among historical sources> b : to use good judgment 2 : to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit <discriminate in favor of your friends> <discriminate against a certain nationality>
I’m curious, when did the secondary definition get added?...
Good Will Toward Men
You know what? I give what I can, when I can, which is more than most can say. We’ve been quite fortunate in recent years and remember quite well what it’s like to not be, so giving to charity is important to me. So when a guy calls and sounds like he’s talking to me between drags on his cig and a mouthful of nachos and then hangs up on me before I get 2 seconds into my polite,...
December 2009
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“Only a fool has nothing left to learn.”
– I couldn’t find an attribution for this but I can’t imagine I’m the first to have said it. Regardless, I find it to be so true and unfortunately applicable to too many people.
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