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Spotted object

By Thomas Macauley on

A still-unknown object, as show in last night’s Justified, Season 4, episode title ‘Ghosts’. see: http://www.y-group.us/blog/2013/02/uncanny/. The setting is a criminal enterprise with corrupt Sheriff’s Deputy at a funeral home set for autopsy. The deputy asks “Do you know what this does?” My answer is “No! Buy my mother keeps one in her kitchen drawer!”

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Unit

By Thomas Macauley on

I have a 24 ounce bottle. I drink half of it in 12 swallows during long hikes. I did a final check last night by polishing it off in 24. One ounce per swallow. ‘Must be the origin of this useful unit of measure. Maybe I should Google it. (The photo is the 24 ounce …

Z Hours

By Thomas Macauley on

I spend many hours trying to get navigation access menus to hover over this blog’s flexslider slide show. It looked like a z-index issue between content objects. ‘Was worried that I could no longer trust this Anaximander theme as a basis for other designs. The problem fixed itself this morning while tidying up the site, …

Tax Swing

By Thomas Macauley on

“How the Taxman Cleared the Dance Floor”, by Eric Felten (Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra): These are strange days, when we are told both that tax incentives can transform technologies yet higher taxes will not drag down the economy. So which is it? Do taxes change behavior or not? Of course they do, but often in …