According to the Cost of War counter , we are currently spending $3,951 per second to… uh… wait, what are we doing in Iraq this week? Oh, yeah. JACK SHIT, that’s what.
Check my math if you like. The site lists a figure of $341.4 million per day. There are (24 hrs/day * 60 mins/hr * 60 secs/min) = 86,400 seconds in a day. $341,400,000/day divided by 86,400 secs/day = $3,951.39/second.
(Amusingly, the JavaScript required to display the money counter is taking about 25-30% of one of my CPUs.)
I was prompted to look this up by an 8th-grader on the bus this morning who was telling his buddy about an imprisoned illegal immigrant whose health care was costing the county $25,000 a month. I wish I’d had this number handy half an hour ago; in the time it would have taken me to repeat it, we’d have racked up $25k and then some.
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Kermit!From: timestream.net
Post Date: 2008-04-14 12:39:43
I did indeed scan the ultrasound pics, but I totally spaced on blogging them. For those of you who haven’t already seen them, here they are .
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more Mac Productivity Tool: OmniFocus2IMAPFrom: timestream.net
Post Date: 2008-04-13 15:57:41
So GTD is pretty nifty, and OmniFocus is a really nice tool for doing GTD. I bought it while it was still in beta, and like it muchly… but I haven’t really been using it.
One of the basic problems I’ve had is that the best time for me to Get Things Done is when my sweetie is using the computer. Keeping a digital to-do list makes it rather difficult to know which Ts to GD when I’m not at the keyboard. I’m absolutely awful with paper, so this has effectivel...
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