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...]Weirdest research ever. (2003/12/08)
So, I’m going to be writing the user’s manual for a guitar. So, as part of my research for this job, I, uhm, I moved a bunch of synthesizers upstairs and hooked them up.
[read more...]Tech Central Station: "We don't know how you got on our list, but we don't spam." (2003/12/05)
Boy, that’s useless.
[read more...]Lawsuits are hard work (2003/12/02)
Just for the record:
[read more...]Sorry, out sick again. (2003/11/29)
Actually, I’m mostly better. Stomach flu of some sort; out cold for about a day, suddenly feeling almost well again.
[read more...]I think I'll call it a "Bertrand Russell Party" (2003/11/27)
One of the miseries of the “holiday season” is the tendency for people to find themselves, unexpectedly, with nowhere to go. There is something horrible about the day when all your friends are visiting their families, and you are alone. This happens to different people every year, for different reasons. Perhaps a sibling is visiting Puerto Rico in late december. Perhaps a dispute over whether or not a loved one is a suitable partner has created a rift. Does it matter? There it is, December 24th or 25th, and there’s no one to spend time with; just an empty house, perhaps with a forlorn tree, which you are increasingly aware is already dead, even if it doesn’t know it yet, and which will shortly need to be thrown out.
[read more...]Finally. (2003/11/26)
So, in 1996, I was a real jerk. Some newbie posted what he intended as helpful advice to comp.lang.c. I insulted him at some length. A while later, he posted pointing out that I had been right… but a phrase stuck in my head.
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