OK, let’s say you want to open a restaurant. Something that features a pretty universal comfort food. Something easy, something that people understand, and you want to do it right across from a local university campus. What would you name such an establishment?
MKK's restaurant
Mother KlucKer’s. Oooooh yeah. Jackpot.
I’m no politician. I don’t even do office politics.
Having said that, I’m having a real “WHAT” moment after reading a news article from the hill.com. According to the article, the Senate is going to have to raise the federal debt limit to well beyond $12.1 trillion by October… just about four weeks from now. This is “a move viewed as necessary despite protests about the record levels of red ink”.
But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in the article that “failing to raise the cap could lead the nation to default in mid-October, when the debt is expected to exceed its limit.”
To quote a famous movie, “That would be bad. Okay, alright, important safety tip.”
Before I rant on, though, take a moment to click this link to see what a single trillion dollars looks like, starting from a $100 bill.
Did you see it? Double stacked palettes of $100 bills. But that’s just A billion. Imagine 12 stacks of that.
But that’s not the “WHAT” moment.
A math whiz on another website pointed out that the biggest surplus ever was 236 billion, way back in the Clinton/2000 era. No surplus of that magnitude has ever happened before or after. But it did happen once, so you can argue it could happen again.
The thing is, even if the spending stops right now, it would still take over 52 years of $230 billion surpluses to pay off 12.1 trillion.
12.1 trillion divided by 230 billion = 52.6086957.
WHAT
Yeah. Time for a coffee.
If you have a MacBook or Ibook or any other Apple product that has one of those little white remote control things, you should take a moment to electronically lock the two together.
The reason for doing this is to keep your presentations and Mac under your own control. I’ve heard (in theory of course!) some pranksters carry their own Apple white remote with them into presentations. A few clicks of their own remote will send your Mac’s presentation (or Itunes, or any other application for that matter) into a complete state of chaos.
To lock down your Mac so that it only obeys commands from your Apple remote…
Go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES
then SECURITY
choose GENERAL
From here you do have the option to completely disable any remote control by checking the DISABLE REMOTE CONTROL INFRARED RECEIVER option. However, if you click the PAIR button, the Mac will ask you to hold your Apple white remote a few inches from the computer while pressing the remote’s MENU and NEXT buttons at the same time.
After holding the buttons for a few minutes, a white graphic of the remote will appear on your screen, with two chain links above it. This indicates the paring was successful!
Now only that one remote control will control your mac. Any other remote commands from other remotes will be completely ignored.
If you ever want to un-pair the assigned remote with the computer, just go back to the same preference pane and click on the UNPAIR button. Then the mac will go back to being accessible by any remote.
Added two Google ad-links on sidebar. I’m not going to put any ads in the middle of the posts or blog though. Sidebar only!
I just opened trunk number one, and this is the first thing that popped out. A Buzz Corry : Color Book.
Buzz Corry coloring book
Wow. Talk about a completely different era. According to Google Book Search, “The classic television series Space Patrol was a stellar success for ABC from 1950 to 1955.”
Needless to say, it’s not actually a possession of my own childhood. It’s a “find” me and my first college roommate (Daaave!) came across when we opened an empty luggage trunk while searching an abandoned, condemned, and possibly haunted mansion’s attic at 2 AM in early 1989.
Yeah. That one’s a long story.
Anyhow, I color corrected most of the pages in Photoshop because they are all a funky shade of very-very-old-paper yellow. I left the first page as-is so you can see the book’s “real” condition. The last page of this book fell off after I scanned it, and overall it’s in really rough shape.
Here’s some links where you can download a full copy. The SAMPLE is just a copy of the yellow front page. The FULL is the entire thing scanned and color corrected in PDF format.
BOX.NET
SAMPLE
FULL
LIVE DRIVE
SAMPLE
FULL
UPDATE : Or just read it online right here!
I have 14 Seward trunks.
14. Full. Seward. Trunks.
Seward Trunks
That’s just not right.
These trunks are full of the things I accumulated in the first 21 years of my life. Dr. Seuss books, plastic action figures, 33 LP records, shogun warriors, steel toys, view masters, matchbox cars, transformers, cassette walkmans… and somewhere, in one of those trunks, a stuffed penguin named Opus.
Project 14 is my attempt to sift through it all. Photograph and post everything interesting. Keep the good things. Toss the junk.
And to find that stuffed penguin.
Live Twitter feed, Flickr link, Contact Me page, Google XML sitemap and Google Analytics are done.
– Now this site looks good on an Android or an iPhone browser.
– Added “Add To Any” bar. So when I actually post some content it can be forwarded properly.
Progress is in progress. Please stand by…
Just in case there is something soooo important I gotta post it from my iPhone. Test. Test. Test.
— Post From My iPhone
WordPress. Twitter. Facebook. Linked In. Qik. Google Voice. MySpace. LiveCliq. Flickr.
Yes. It’s really me.
Hang on a sec while I boot all this up…
