Miscellaneous

New kind of electricity meter
This is pretty nifty. The soaring cost of electricity in SA has made me a turn off the lights Nazi at home. And maybe I can finally convince my mum that the TV does not need to be unplugged from the wall after its been turned off...

I'm just happy to be here, hope I can help the ball club
I feel pretty lame that, after Gordon's kind introduction, I've been silent for first few days of my grown-up blogging...

Oh, well
I talked to my mom this morning and she said they were going to what I understood her to say was an "Artesian center" wherever it is they are this week, but she seemed pretty cheerful about it...

pretty nerd alert!!
wow. the Caltech boy on Jeopardy today is really hot. i feel kind of dirty, since it's the college tournament, and undergrads = cradle robbery...but still. yummy eye candy for the win!

Reds
One of the certainties of being a tax policy scholar who is not opposed to all taxes is that I am called names on a regular basis. The most common epithets are the standby favorites of the Cold War era: commie, pinko, commie-pinko, socialist, red, Marxist, Marxist/socialist ...

Racing Mind
Butterflyfish sent me a link to this comic today. She pretty much nailed it when she said it reminded her of me. I’m not really OCD like this but if you take a problem (or all of them), this is kind of how my mind spins out of control and into a super-anxious [...