As you know, I have an Android Phone, and I love it. Amazon has their own App Store, and every day they offer a paid app for free.
The problem is, you need to open the Amazon App Store every day to find out what the free app is. This is not something I am likely to do, so I started to wonder if there was an RSS feed for the free apps. Google Reader is something I open every day.
Nightwalker over at GeekExile.com had the same problem, so he created his own RSS feed for the free apps.
His hearing has been postponed, because he has been diagnosed with PTSD.
No word on what the traumatic incident was, but check out what his lawyer said about why he couldn’t attend his disciplinary hearing:
“The progress that Dan Harless is making with his doctor visits would only be reversed with reliving this incident so close to his treatment for his PTSD disability,” Adams wrote.
I don’t know about you, but it sounds to me like the traumatic incident was people all over the country finding out he’s an asshole.
Stevens Model 94 M
My grandparents are cleaning out their house and this is one of the things they gave me.
So get this:
Cops are called to a hotel because someone thinks one of the guests is selling cocaine. When they get there, they find little baggies of white powder. After testing the powder, they find out it’s baking soda.
It’s not illegal to sell baking soda, but it IS illegal to sell fake drugs. In fact, it’s a felony to con a druggie out of his hard-stolen cash. I imagine that this law is in place to prevent law enforcement from being embarrassed.
You’re going to need them.
Done? Ok:
TSA Agent Thedala Magee is suing Amy Alkon for a half million dollars because Alkon complained–loudly, publicly, and often–about being gate-raped.
I’ve been doing the Dave Ramsey Thing for almost 7 years now. I became debt free in 2007. A year later, I paid cash for my wedding and honeymoon and by 2010 we had paid off Mrs wizardpc’s credit cards and student loans, and had also purchased a house with a 20% down payment. We have been debt free except the house since October of 2010. We’ve had 6 months of expenses in the bank since this past spring. We were about to start paying off the house early the day we found out lilwizard would be joining us.
At every point in my journey, there have been people who have said “Well, that’s great in theory, but just wait until X! You’ll have to borrow money then!”
So far, the values for X have been:
And I have a few ideas about what the next ones will be. At every point, I’ve just trucked along without any problems.
I’ve done this single. I’ve done this while trying to convince a girl I was worth marrying. I’ve done this while keeping the wife happy and increasing her standard of living. I’ve done this as a renter. I’ve done it as a homeowner. I’m about to do it as a parent.
No matter where you are in your life, you can do this. Just like quitting smoking, though, quitting debt is hard. You have to want it.
I want $17,000,000 at retirement more than I want a new $35,000 truck instead of a $2,700 Cherokee. I want to be able to buy my kids houses as wedding presents more than I want to live in a $400,000 house 5 minutes from work. I want my wife to be able to be a stay at home mom if she wants to more than I want all the cable channels.
Life is about trade-offs.
*Yes, I got a mortgage, but that’s not what I’m referring to. People kept telling me I’d need to build my credit. We bought a house, but I got a mortgage. With a 15 year fixed rate conventional mortgage and 20% down, I was able to get a 4.375% mortgage during a time where 4.5-5.25% mortgages were the norm, despite not having any consumer debt since 2005 or any debt at all since 2007. I didn’t have to go out and “build my credit” like so many people told me I was going to have to do. The wife had a much more recent credit history but adding her to the mortgage would have negatively affected our rate. Think about that. ETA: mrswizardpc reminded me last night (and in comments today) that the problems we had adding her to the mortgage were related to her just having graduated college and therefor having less than a year of professional work history.
A local Smoothie King was robbed this week and the owners have posted the surveillance video–including audio–to YouTube:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NxolSOexk&w=420&h=345]
The owners say that while still frames are nice, the audio is more likely to identify him. I’ll agree with that.
Watching the video, I don’t think the guy is actually armed. He appears to be wearing sweatpants and just ask Plaxico how well sweatpants work for Mexican Carry. When he walks in, he appears to have his right hand on the gun, in front and over his shirt. Later, he looks like he’s reaching behind him to get a gun, with his left hand. He might have an airsoft pistol just in case the employees needed a little more convincing, but I don’t think he had anything. It doesn’t take much to scare teenage girls.
He also appears to be pretty new at this. He begins by announcing the robbery as he enters the store. He allows one of the employees to briefly retreat to an office. He uses both hands to give the employees the plastic shopping bag he brought with him. He turns his back on them once he’s got the money. UPDATE: Not his first rodeo.
Oh, and to the employees: It’s probably not a good idea to tell a robber “I’m not authorized to do that” when he tells you to open the register.
It was actually pretty good. It isn’t “OMG you need to go buy this today” good, but it is “add it to your Netflix queue” good. They had ample opportunity for politicization, but thankfully they didn’t take it.
My only problem was with the name. “Source Code” is an actual term used to describe something pretty common, so you shouldn’t use it as a term for something completely unrelated.
I might make this a feature. Not sure. In my research over the years I have come across some mighty stupid laws.
I came across this one when researching leash laws. It’s a Class C Misdemeanor.
No person, unless totally or partially deaf, shall carry, hold, or use on any street, highway, or in any other public place, a leash blaze orange in color on any dog accompanying that person.
This one is stupid mostly because it’s completely unknown to regular people. Heck, my wife works with the deaf and didn’t know about this. This leash is probably illegal, and I’m given to understand that there are a lot of people in this state who are UT fans.
Really, what’s the point here? To alert drivers that there might be a hearing dog on the sidewalk? And why would that be useful information? It’s not like you’d have time to process “oh, that leash is blaze orange” before actually passing the deaf owner.