Monthly Archives: September 2012

I don't even know what to say

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What's scarier, that this man could be president, or that tens of millions of Americans would actually vote for someone like Mitt Romney.

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“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."

Mitt Romney pulls in $6 million at Beverly Hills fundraiser
Mitt Romney took in $6 million Saturday night at a Beverly Hills fundraiser, he said, as his backers tried to quell concern about the rocky road the Republican nominee has faced in his presidential b…

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After taking a look at the rather tepid market acceptance so far for pure battery… 2

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After taking a look at the rather tepid market acceptance so far for pure battery electric vehicles, +TOYOTA  has reconsidered its plans for the battery powered iQ minicar.  Instead of trying to sell several thousand units a year, they will only sell about 100 examples. Even the plug-in hybrid Prius is falling short of sales targets in Japan, so Toyota will be re-emphasizing its conventional hybrid technology.  Several years ago, Toyota pronounced that virtually its entire lineup would be available with hybrid power by the end of this decade and 14 new hybrids are coming in the next couple of years. Toyota also reiterated its plans to launch a hydrogen fuel cell car by 2015. 

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First Shift: Best car tech for seniors. Smart headlights among top features, Ford-CAW pact passes, Volvo’s Jacoby recuperating after stroke, more Toyota hybrids. … >> watch the video 12:01…

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Where U.S. Life Expectancy is Dropping 6

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Where U.S. Life Expectancy is Dropping
Red shows life expectancy fell over the last twenty years for women

Think about this when both Democratic- and Republican-parties — including President Obama — embrace the idea of patching our Federal budget on the backs of seniors and the poor by raising the eligibility ages for both Medicare and Senior Security. For many Americans, life expectancy is declining, not increasing. 

Here's another way to look at the data from the NYT's article I posted about earlier, showing that lower-income white women were seeing their life expectancies decline, geographically instead of demographically. 

Via The Incidental Economist
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/life-expectancy-isnt-always-going-up/

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/21/where-life-expectancy-is-falling-in-one-map/


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The great thing about being a tech geek is experimenting with technology to find… 8

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The great thing about being a tech geek is experimenting with technology to find new solutions to old problems. The downside of course is that anything that involves the rest of the household has to pass the spouse test. I'm personally willing to put up with quirky behavior to try out new stuff, the wife and boy, not so much. 

However, today my wife was so frustrated at browsing the through the hundreds of channels offered up by +Comcast yet finding nothing worthwhile to watch that she brought up the topic of cord cutting.

The reality is we only ever watch about 2 dozen of the hundreds of channels that Comcast insists on bundling. We never, ever watch any of the sports channels, or shopping channels, MTV channels, etc but of course we can't just pay for a bucket of channels and pick the ones we want. 

I explained the downsides of cord cutting and what we'd likely miss out on along with the hoops we'd have to jump through for a while, but she's willing to give it a shot. I'll be putting together a plan and we will probably give Comcast the heave ho in the coming months. 

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