Monthly Archives: April 2007

Lies Lies and Lies

The disgusting propaganda of the Tillman and Lynch stories just makes me sick. This cold, cynical manipulation of the American people just fills me with rage. It’s telling about our government and military that Tillman was a strong proponent of our efforts in Iraq, left a lucrative NFL career, was shot by …

April 25, 2007 – 10:46 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Almost done with Netflix

So I think I ended up on the wrong side of Netflix’s punish-meter. I was a customer a few years ago, and left because they were throttling me.

I re-upped after the lawsuit thinking they would start chilling out with that. I also made sure I kept DVDs for at least a couple of …

April 17, 2007 – 4:06 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

The Shootings

My first reactions to the VA shootings were not to the shootings themselves, but to the reactions of others. The first thing that struck me was the amount and intensity of emotion around the shootings, in stark contrast to the lack of emotion around the ongoing daily deaths in Iraq. Now, this wasn’t …

April 17, 2007 – 11:31 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Investment Class Warfare

Interesting article by Michael Lewis about how the rich invest in private equity instead of the stock market.

April 15, 2007 – 11:06 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

On Money Stuff

Interesting article from Slate today on why taxation on savings and investments discourage people from saving. My 401k has earned 9% over the 2 years that I’ve been investing in it, giving me a 3% gain after inflation. This is completely my fault as I wasn’t really managing my allocations properly, and now …

April 13, 2007 – 5:01 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Personal, Random | Comments (1)

On the Leopard Delay

So 10.5 is delayed. In the over-all scope of things, this is not the end of the world. Of course it could mean less dollars for Apple as people delay their hardware purchases in anticipation of the release.

The 4 month delay doesn’t really bother me. I can wait a little longer for …

April 12, 2007 – 11:35 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

The Ocho! Update

Apparently it’s not really worth buying an 8 core MacPro because the memory bus is starved.

April 11, 2007 – 10:06 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Interesting Article on DNA and Evolution

Interesting Article on DNA and Evolution

April 6, 2007 – 4:07 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

McCain seems to be going crazy

I’ve said before that I would vote for McCain before voting for Hillary a number of times, especially given his strong record of advocating for consumer rights. But he really seems to have lost it recently. First the whole condoms/aids/africa thing, now the whole “the president is doing a great job in Iraq, …

April 6, 2007 – 2:06 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

The Ocho!

Apple today brought forth the fury of 8 cores! “And that’s right cotton, it costs 4 grand.” “That’s a lot of scratch”

Apple continues to ship its pro desktops with only 1GB of its “more expensive than gold” FB-DIMM memory. No new case, no new video card options, nothing new except for the processors. …

April 4, 2007 – 10:14 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)