Archive for October, 2008

grande opening of Academy of Sciences

October 6th, 2008

We didn’t make it to the grande re-opening of the Academy of Sciences, but we did make it this weekend thanks to a rained out soccer game. The living roof is cool in an eco-geeky sort of way. The place is like Disney in that there are lines to do everything, and there is a […]

if you build/buy it, we will come

October 4th, 2008

Hey, Dad, if you build/buy me one of these teeny-tiny cottages for your Hill Country property, we’ll come visit at least once a quarter. Image thanks to TinyTexasHouses.com.

I lied.

October 2nd, 2008

Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama

the last political post

October 1st, 2008

I lean heavily to the left, but I have been researching Sarah Palin, Obama, McCain, and Biden because I don’t want to vote blindly. Women fought so hard to give me this right, I’m going to take it seriously. I feel that we should all be making educated decisions, so I wanted to pass along […]

it probably is not the great(est) depression

October 1st, 2008

I’ve spent a lot of time reading about our previous economic crisis and their causes – the 15% APR on mortgages in the 80s, the S&L scandal, and the Great Depression – in an attempt to better understand how we got into those situations and what they meant for people like me, but mainly so […]

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