There is something seriously wrong with the Minneapolis city water lately. Our fridge has a filter that takes care of it, but every restaurant in town has fishy nastiness in the water. For those members of my vast readership from out of town, imagine the smell of Amy Winehouse’s crotch on a hot day. It’s that bad.
At least there is no need to drink water – the current Summit seasonal is the best of the year.
From my HSA, I can pay a christian science practitioner but not for scientology counsoling. That’s pre-tax. Some pretend is apparently more acceptable than other pretend.
It’s on page 7 of IRS publication 502
You can include in medical expenses fees you pay to
Christian Science practitioners for medical care.
Now for the next quote, this one comes from The Church of Christ, Scientist website. This is what a christian science practitioner does:
Offer spiritually-based Christian Science treatment – a specific kind of prayer explained in the book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which has resulted for many in physical healing and the resolution of a variety of life problems.
Wow. Reducing tax liberality is our national pastime… but paying someone to pray for you? I knew a guy in college that didn’t know a damn thing about medicine – but you might say he was an entrepreneur herbalist.
Bummer that his goods/services aren’t pretax – on page 15 of that IRS doc
You cannot include in medical expenses amounts you pay for controlled substances (such as marijuana, laetrile, etc.), in violation of federal law.
Legal or otherwise at least what he was selling had an effect.
Electra, originally uploaded by kbb.
Inscribed in The End of Nature by Bill McKibben.
I’m pretty sure Joe never gave the book back, he got a few bucks for it at booksmart. I wonder what the nicknames mean?
I never lend out books. They never seem to come back.
I love the paper. I prefer the actual physical paper in all it’s dirty smelly glory.
I grew up with it, I often remember my father as the disembodied voice behind the Star Tribune:
“We’re furious with you! Aren’t we!?!”, Mother shrieked.
“furious.”, deadpanned Dad.
I know now that he had no clue why I was getting berated was about, he was just glad it wasn’t him.
The paper paper is intransitive – it’s not fluid like news on the web. I’ve often noticed that the best humor in the paper gets ‘corrected’ in the online version, usually after I sent it to some friends.
Something seems wrong to me about a continually fluid news stream. The optimistic would point out that accuracy would be increased. I think we’d lose something though, errors and journalistic lapses themselves are part of the news as well as being funny as hell.
Nobody else I know reads the paper – so I often have find what I’ve read online to share it. Sometimes the online version is much cooler, as in this fascinating graphic
The print version had one year instead of 20.
In other highlights from the weekend paper:
Everyone onstage dances like hell, and when we get to hell, it will be full of ballets like this. Its loud rock score, by David Rozenblatt, sounds like a refrigerator copulating with a hot tin roof.
– Alastair Macaulay
This quote disproves the inverted pyramid – the most important sentence in the article is the last one.
I’ve got a phone now. It’s run by windows mobile, I’m anxiously awaiting the first blue screen.
I can now send calls directly to voicemail again. I most likely won’t call you, as I’ve not transfered my contacts yet.
I got discouraged when I learned that the phone wants to sync with outlook, and is offended by csv, ldif or vcard imports.
I’m sure that cell phone manufactures and service providers hate us all. Why make it easy for someone to adopt your device?
T-mobile allows me to type in name/number pairs 10 at a time on their website and then send to my phone… which is slightly less crappy than doing it on the small keyboard on the phone.
I’ll have my contacts when my lovely wife imports my ldif contact list into her outlook and then exports it to my phone.
The much talked about Minneapolis wireless blows. I could rant about it for at least 10 pages, however the images below sums it up.
If you sign up you’ll be seeing this a lot:
I know this is brand new stuff, I can handle some bumps in rolling out an ambitious new service. But my connection was so crappy and slow that ‘cutie kitty chef’ was beating me in TF2:
I have no idea who that person is, but I’m sure they’re a toolbox. I had to cancel the service. So now I’m without internet and without cell phone. I feel very 1990.
I like ant particularly after recently working in the embedded device world where 15 year old make files are still being used to coax binaries out of toolchains older than I am.
I have horrid memories or a time less than a year ago when everyday I’d see output from a linker that was dated the year I started kindergarten. If that sweet innocent little me had realized that some punter in California was working on an that insidious product that would later torment me… The primary function of this junk wasn’t eating C and turning out elf binaries, but rather in teaching users the full meaning of white space, and where thou shalt place a tab and thou shalt not use eight spaces. Verily spaces are an abomination that displeases the grey bearded unix gods. Don’t even ask about how many spaces are in a tab.
Today I had the best idea for extending ant. I want the fail task to randomly pop up a picture from the fail blog
I have a mild obsession with craigslist. One of the rss feeds I’ve subscribed too is the free stuff.
I don’t hope to get any great free stuff, I do it for the entertainment. Don’t believe me? check this gem:
And I thought she was at work.
Everyone has that stack of CD-Rs in their drawer. Admit it. You do, and most aren’t labeled. The few with labels are uber-descriptive: “Stuff”, “Junk”, “Backup 3/4/1999″. I just looked at one of those unlabeled nuggets.
Pure gold. It’s one of the uncountable CDs made in the late 1990′s and early 2000′s during times of uncertainty at work. It was a hobby at one job – keeping your resume up to date by the second and copying your stuff to CD-r. By stuff I mean mame roms, mp3s and the like. I found this gem:
It hung in my office for years. I swear it’s not a joke, this was a real deal slide in an exec’s powerpoint.
5 beers to the person that can explain it to me. I think the cornflower-blue ‘efficiencies & cost savings’ arrows are some how key…. I’d have added a third one, at a 45 degree angle. Just for good measure.
And then worked in a “PHASE 3: PROFIT!”
