Archive for October, 2009

What Is Your Time Worth?

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

What do you consider your “hourly rate” in life to be?  Here’s an easy way to figure it out.

Take the amount you feel you deserve to be making per year (a reasonable amount, not like 100 billion dollars).
Take 52 weeks (one year) and subtract the number of weeks you’d like to spend on vacation away [...]

Belmont Shore Public Intoxication Arrests Must be Dismissed | Houston Law of California

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

About a month ago, I was illegally arrested and jailed for 24 hours for absolutely no reason by the Long Beach Police Department in Belmont Shore, CA.  My good friend who was with me was also arrested unfairly, in what later appeared to be a classic “hook and book” scheme.
I will be writing a full [...]

Chomp Lobster at Instant French Restaurant-To-Go Prefabbed From Shipping Container

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

This may be the coolest idea I’ve ever seen.  French food, plus solar energy, plus shipping container… fucking awesome-sauce.

Here is the container as it opens…

The finished product: PURE AWESOMENESS!
Chomp Lobster at Instant French Restaurant-To-Go Prefabbed From Shipping Container.

New Pre-Human Species Fossil Found

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

This amazing article discusses how scientists have proven that while we share a common ancestry with apes, we did not evolve from apes, and in fact apes are as highly-evolved as we are… just in a different direction.  Crazy!
‘Ardi:’ Fossil Brings Us Closer to Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes – ABC News.

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