because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in life on Apr 12th, 2008
The townhouse where we live is near to a major rail corridor through town. The city newsletter this week informed us of a multi-million dollar project to make improvements to the eleven grade crossings inside the city that will allow them to petition the Federal government for a “quiet zone.” This would mean that the [...]
Posted in life on Apr 12th, 2008
This is the tale of buying a portable digital piano keyboard. The final decision involved two brick and mortar stores, hours of Internet research, several online retailers, and ultimately came down to customer service.
Bad Customer Service
Sibylle has wanted a good portable, digital piano keyboard for her studio for a while. A good keyboard with [...]
Posted in life on Apr 11th, 2008
Kansas City employs digital information signs on the Interstate highways that traverse and circumnavigate the city, which usually display travel times to major intersections or landmarks. Very useful for regular commuters making their daily trek to or from work. In the summertime these signs display information about ozone alerts, and, when necessary, there are Amber [...]
Posted in life on Apr 5th, 2008
Downtown Kansas City is experiencing a bit of a renaissance culturally and otherwise. The city has poured a lot of money into the new Power and Light district, with the new Sprint Center as the centerpiece. New restaurants are opening, and all the old buildings, seemingly, are being converted into lofts.
Quick, what’s the image that [...]
Posted in life on Apr 4th, 2008
Walk into any store-front Chinese restaurant and order a fried rice variant, be it shrimp, chicken, pork, or combination, and you’ll get almost exactly the same thing, regardless of where you are. Rice, cubed carrots, peas, some onion perhaps, soy sauce, and the meat of your choice. Oh, and soy sauce for color and flavor. [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 3rd, 2008
All of us have heard of the “six degrees of separation” theory, which implies that you can get from any person on the planet to any other person on the planet with only six intervening connections. For example, I know my father, whose best friend, in turn, is a former Washington DC lobbyist, and has met with former [...]
Every year for the past twenty-four years I have prepared my own taxes. For many years my income and filing status allowed me to use the 1040-EZ form, eventually I graduated to the infamous 1040 Long Form. In 2000, after going into business for myself I was introduced to self employment tax, Schedule C and [...]
