We are on hiatus

This blog has been put on indefinite hiatus. It may reappear sometime down the road. But for now, if you want to know what I'm up to, you'll have to contact me elsewhere.

Plus, what would strippers do?

"While the government would save about $500 million annually in printing costs if it got rid of the dollar bill in favor of more durable coins, Castle said there are no plans to follow the lead of Canada and several European countries in ditching the smaller currencies.

'The dollar bill is just Americana. There is a lot of sentiment to keeping it,' he said."

Dollar coins

Make Mine Freedom

Hilarious (and well made) anti-communist propoganda from the 1940s.

Scientists and Engineers for America

Hey everybody. Go check out Scientists and Engineers for America. They are dedicated to helping elect public officials that don't ignore scientific findings (like, say, about global warming, stem cells, and the like).

It's been a while

This article cracked me up:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060824-7591.html

I taught the first classes of the semester yesterday.

Sometime this summer I got feedback on my first exam. I think it was a passing exam, but there was lots of room for improvement.

I am starting a Moby Dick reading group with some friends. We start next week.

That's all for now.

You know what's ironic about Carrot Top?

  The tops of carrots are green.

Scam

Hey everybody. I bought tickets from Fandango.com a while back, and one of their advertisers asked if I wanted to get a 10 dollar rebate in exchange for filling out some info. So I figured, "sure I do" and gave them my spam-only email account. It turned out that the rebate required far more work than the ten dollars was worth, so I ignored it.

Then, today while going over my bank records I noticed a ten dollar charge from WRI*ReservationRewards. I wasn't sure what that was, so I googled it, and found, among other webpages, this site: Watch out for this online credit card fraud via Fandango.com!!.

They advertise with online retailers, and when you click to get the rebate, they get your credit card info from the "legitimate" retailer (in this case, fandango). Then they charge you 10 bucks a month.
I called the company, and they said that they would refund the money and cancel the account. I'll keep you posted, but beware.
Also, it makes me not want to do business with any company that lets these bozos advertise on their site. No more Fandango for me.