Possibly the only observable infinite…
I am, I admit, a paleocapitalist and (mostly a) paleoconservative. That said, I do not think oil company executives – or any other corporate executives – should have to defend their company’s profits, unless illegally gained. For that reason, this meddling strikes me as ridiculous. Lest we forget, oil is among the most volatile and […]
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I had forgotten another wonderful byproduct of DST. Microsoft Outlook automatically changes all of my all-day or multi-day appointments to start one hour later. Why it would be true, now, that the Fourth of July holiday would start at 1:00 AM, for example… I have no idea. P.S. This doesn’t impact appointments that are not
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Most days, we use my phone as my alarm clock. It’s loud enough and persistent enough, plus it automatically compensates for things like Daylight Savings Time. Imagine my surprise when I discovered, however, that it had adjusted not only the time, but the alarm times, as well. So, at 2:00 AM, it apparently set the
There are people in Hyde Park who, apparently, think most of the neighborhood’s residents are hard of hearing. Every couple of days, somebody stops a car on one of the streets near Regents and starts hitting the horn – three long honks, once a minute or so, for about an hour and a half. Non-freaking-stop.
As I have posted before, the allegedly broadband internet service provided by MDU at Regents Park (my apartment building) is mediocre, at best. It just went from mediocre to unacceptably awful. First, the bandwidth has dropped off again – we’re back down to a level between dial-up and broadband speeds. So, we called to complain,
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