Friday, April 30, 2010

Greenwood Arsonist pleads Guilty

Greenwood arsonist pleads guilty to setting string of fires | Seattle Times Newspaper

I love this comment:
"they really need to tack on a few years for his wiping poop on the ATM keys too."

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Alice Miller dies

Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87 - Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
All children, she wrote, suffer trauma and permanent psychic scarring at the hands of parents, who enforce codes of conduct through psychological pressure or corporal punishment: slaps, spankings or, in extreme cases, sustained physical abuse and even torture.

Unable to admit the rage they feel toward their tormenters, Dr. Miller contended, these damaged children limp along through life, weighed down by depression and insecurity, and pass the abuse along to the next generation, in an unending cycle. Some, in a pathetic effort to please their parents and serve their needs, distinguish themselves in the arts or professions.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Online SAT Prep Courses

Maybe this website will help

Organized
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Clean House, Cut Clutter, Get Organized at Home!


http://organizedhome.com/printable/household-notebook

Friday, April 23, 2010

Now here's a great idea

A meal planner that works like this.
You choose the meals for the week. It produces the following:
* recipes
* grocery list

It would all be driven off the internet.

What do you think?

Friday, April 16, 2010

Remote Place - Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Economy

All Tristan families are farmers, owning their own stock. All land is communally owned. Livestock numbers are strictly controlled to conserve pasture and to prevent better-off families accumulating wealth. No outsiders are allowed to buy land or settle on Tristan.[11]

The islands' main source of foreign income is the lobster factory and the sale of postage stamps and coins to overseas collectors. Most people have dual occupations, often working for the local government. Many inhabitants have plots of land (at the patches) on which they grow potatoes.

The 1961 volcanic eruption destroyed the Tristan da Cunha canned crayfish factory, which was rebuilt a short time later. The crayfish farmers work for the South African company Ovenstone, which has an exclusive contract to sell crayfish to the United States and Japan. Even though Tristan da Cunha is a UK overseas territory, it is not permitted direct access to European Union markets. Recently the decline in interest in Tristan crayfish in the United States has meant that the islanders have had to borrow from their reserves. The islands' financial problems may cause delays in updating communication equipment and improving education on the island.

The fire of February 13, 2008, (see history above) has resulted in major economic disruption.

Getting away from it all

Where Home Is Really About Getting Away From It All - NYTimes.com
FOR the last 16 years, Nick Fahey has been living on an island in the San Juan archipelago north of Puget Sound, in Washington state, where his only full-time companion is a 26-year-old quarter horse called Ig. Mr. Fahey, 67, lives in a cabin on 100 wooded acres that has been in his family since 1930; it has no refrigerator, but there is electricity generated by solar panels, so he has light and can charge his cellphone.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Malcolm McLaren dead

I love the album Fans, which contained special done-up versions of famous arias.

Malcolm McLaren, Impresario and Rock Music Manager, Is Dead - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
2:45 p.m. | Updated
Malcolm McLaren, the impresario, promoter and self-promoter who once claimed to have invented punk rock, and who assembled and managed the youthful, unruly members of the Sex Pistols, the breakthrough British punk band, has died. He was 64.