Archive for February, 2008
US has highest percentage of adults in prison
This isn’t a stat where you want to be number one: the US has the highest percentage of incarcerated adults. Not just highest in the industrial world, but higher than any other country on Earth. Just over 1 percent of every adult is in prison.
Something has gone wrong, when the lone superpower on […]
The last days of CompUSA
In an odd little coincidence, I am close to the two CompUSA stores here in Nashville. There’s one maybe two miles from my new employer’s offices, and the other one is about the same distance from the apartment complex where I’ve been staying during my house search.
Like any morbid geek, I decided to stop […]
How much is too much to spend on a refrigerator?
The closing date for my townhome is now 11 days away, something could still go wrong so I don’t want to actually buy any appliances yet. But I have started shopping around — the unit comes with only the stove and dishwasher. I have to buy the refrigerator and the washer/dryer.
The decision for […]
This apartment is full of static electricity
I’m beginning to think that the apartment where I’m temporarily staying is connected to some hidden Van de Graaff generator somewhere. Because I am constantly getting little static shocks whenever I touch anything remotely metallic here. Touch a doorknob, get a shock. Touch the brass frame on the coffee table, get a […]
Got my invite to the Grand Central beta
Yesterday I finally scored an invite into the beta for Google’s Grand Central. It’s a service where you get one phone number that you give out to your contacts, and then you control which of your “real” numbers that call will be forwarded to. For example, I have my default set up so […]
Now my laptop battery is dying
I seem to have bad luck with rechargeable batteries. Couple years ago the battery in my old iPod started refusing to hold a charge. I couldn’t justify buying a new iPod so I eventually got the battery replaced instead.
Now my laptop is experiencing similar battery problems. But while it took over three […]
I hope these falling home prices haven’t hit Louisville yet
Oh boy this is not the kind of news I want to see–average home prices had their biggest quarterly drop ever in the last quarter of 2007. I hope that hasn’t hit the Louisville market yet, I have a home I’m trying to sell there.
The loan officer I’m working with did say that I […]
I just signed a contract on a new townhome
Assuming the financing comes thru, I have found my new Nashville home. It’s a nice little two-story townhome about five miles from the office, part of a brand new Centex development.
It has a garage, just a one-car so it’s smaller than the two-car garage in my Louisville house. And of course the townhome […]
What I’m going to miss about Louisville
Today is my last full day living here in Louisville, Kentucky. The movers come tomorrow morning, and given that it’s mostly just furniture left in my house the packing should be pretty quick. Depending on when in the morning they arrive (scheduled between 8 to 10 a.m.) it’s possible I’ll be out of […]
Interesting that their own states don’t like McCain and Romney that much
I thought the big story out of last night’s Super Duper Tuesday voting was how little the home states of McCain and Romney like them. Whereas the people of Arkansas are clearly fond of their guy, Huckabee.
McCain and Romney both won their respective home states but narrowly. Romney managed to climb just over […]