That sure is some attractive wallpaper and vinyl flooring. We found the flooring under another layer of vinyl and a layer of carpet. It even inspired me to fire up Photoshop and make a new background for the title above.
More photos, including a shot of the other upstairs bedroom.
I’ve done some crappy wiring in my life, especially for temporary phones and such, but nothing this bad.
Why is it that every time I’m reading some financial advice column, they say something like:
Can the human brain not be taught to understand the pitfalls of the credit card industry? Most financial columnists seem to think this is about as likely as Farleigh-Dickinson winning the NCAA basketball championship this year.
Luckily, this college professor is a little more positive:
(Via this weeks’ Carnival of Education)
This has parallels to the sex education debate, but most people aren’t going to like the ones I draw. Telling students about the ways to stay safe while doing things does not mean you are forcing, or even encouraging, them to do anything, you are just giving them the tools to protect themselves if they so choose. So, spending a week or two in high school explaining why paying the minimum payment on a $2000 credit card bill every month with an APR of 19.9% isn’t going to get that balance down just might be a good thing.
I will grant that some people simply cannot control themselves when given the temptations of a seemingly limitless source of cash and they should follow the financial planner advice, but surely not every twentysomething falls into this category.
Alisha and I visited the Krannert Art Museum last night to see the Apocalypse Then exhibition and to look at the rest of the collection. It’s really hard to believe that artwork can survive hundreds of years, or even centuries, without being destroyed. Especially when it deals with overt religion like many of the ancient stone Buddha sculptures.
One of the guest writers over at TPM finally brings up one of the more important points of the right-wing talk radio and FoxNews revolution:
That’s precisely the reason buffoons like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are on the air, people like to have their narrow-minded talking points reinforced to the point they have to be true.
And this quote gives a nice little window into the “high minded, hoity-toityness” that Rush and Bill like to pin on the Democrats:
if you spurn it or any other voice solely on ideological grounds, you’re dooming yourself to small-mindedness. Sorry to get preachy. I just find this mentality baffling.
It’s fine to stand outside the debate and say “I’m not going to lower myself to your level of thinking” but when the other side spins that back as “See, they think they are better than you, you’re just a bunch of dumb rednecks and religious nuts to them”, you’ve got to do something.
And, now, Harry Shearer, of The Simpsons and Spinal Tap is taking over TPM for a few days.
I just want to get on the record as saying this: If the Illini basketball team loses in the NCAA Tournament, it’s not the SI cover curse, it’s the anti-celebratory violence push going on in Chambana.
The IRL will be running 10% ethanol in all cars next year, 100% by 2007.
I’m not even going to start on the economics of ethanol.
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.5, yay! Let there be new functions.
There’s some history in that ball.
Schumacher doesn’t finish a race? Giancarlo Fisichella wins, in a Renault? Well, you can’t say that qualifying wasn’t partly at fault. And it looks like the the 2 races per engine rule has improved reliability, with no spectacular engine failures.
