Be not afraid. (2003/12/25)
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Party preparation (2003/12/23)
Here’s how you prepare for a party. You vacuum a rug that probably hasn’t been vacuumed before this millennium. It turns out the dusty pink carpet is actually sort of a deep maroon. [read more...]
"Charlie" McCarthy (2003/12/22)
Please disregard this post. Unless, that is, you know what the letters “C”, “M”, and “U” have to do with Charlie McCarthy, and the word “Gail” means something to you, in which case, everything’s moving up two weeks. Drat this inefficient cell structure! [read more...]
Pathetic. Just pathetic, really. (2003/12/20)
So, I was at SuperAmerica (local convenience store chain), and some guy stole about \$40 of gas. Put gas in truck, drove off without even hanging up the hose. [read more...]
Company X is Belkin. (2003/12/19)
In this article, I refer to “Company X”. Actually, I referred to Belkin, but the editorial staff deemed it best to avoid too clear a mention. [read more...]
Lord of the Rings movies (2003/12/18)
I’m always torn. I really enjoy these movies, but I sometimes wish that they’d stayed closer to the books; on the other hand, that would have made six to nine hours per movie. Maybe it’ll be a miniseries some day. [read more...]
Why would a guitar need documentation, anyway? (2003/12/15)
I’m gonna be writing some documentation for a guitar company. [read more...]
Self-employment tax (2003/12/12)
Here’s the idea: If you get paid, some amount of your money is due in taxes. If you were self employed, you then pay additional taxes on that money. Why? I don’t know why. It’s presumably because self-employed people are bad for the economy, because a single guy working directly for his customers imposes so much extra overhead compared to what a good chain of middle-men can do… This is a plausible explanation for part of the tax code because it’s precisely backwards, and perfectly stupid. [read more...]
At least I got some writing done. (2003/12/10)
Today was our “settlement hearing” in Seebach v. MCU. That’s the event where the lawyers go head to head in an iron cage, trying to find a number they can both live with. [read more...]
MCU coughs up the money. (2003/12/10)
No, not my money. We’re still going to have a hearing about that. But apparently, now that word’s gotten out that they’re losing cases on this, they’re pretty eager to pay money; they settled with one guy for \$1,200 in the last couple of weeks. So, if you have old junk faxes from Mobile Cellular Unlimited, don’t throw them away! [read more...]