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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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From Twitter (#1429176755)
Did my taxes tonight. I owe the feds $194, but MO owes me $14. Last year those numbers were $234 and $9, so a slight improvement.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 31 March 2009 at 10:43 PM
The International Space Station becomes a little less international
Mr. Padalka explained that on past missions, until about 2005, the crews ate together and shared their food, which helped to build camaraderie. Now, he told the newspaper, the Russians eat only Russian space food and the Americans eat only American space food. Mr. Padalka also revealed that he had been barred, by Earth-bound superiors, from using an American exercise machine and that "they also recommend" that the Russians and Americans on the space station "only use national toilets."
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 31 March 2009 at 1:57 PM
Naming the ISS living quarters after Stephen Colbert
The comedian's supporters cast 230,539 write-in votes to name the new module at the $100-billion space outpost "Colbert." The top NASA-suggested name, "Serenity," finished a distant second, more than 40,000 votes behind.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 30 March 2009 at 9:57 PM
From Twitter (#1394323567)
The best part about going to Weldon Springs on Thursdays is how easy it is to get a smoothie when I get there.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 26 March 2009 at 8:38 AM
From Twitter (#1370931844)
Off to lunch at Bandanas.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 22 March 2009 at 11:32 AM
From Twitter (#1366252215)
Parents wanted to see my new cube, so I took them to see it this morning.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 21 March 2009 at 11:01 AM
From Twitter (#1363707731)
My grandma's had a computer for 3 months, but is just now learning how to scroll. She's only been reading the first few lines of her email.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 20 March 2009 at 7:53 PM
From Twitter (#1363293883)
Started using the keychain I got from work for Christmas a few years ago as my primary keychain. It works better than I expected.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 20 March 2009 at 6:17 PM
Is Cuomo Just Grandstanding?
I'm as unhappy with everyone else about the AIG bonus payments, but I also believe in the rule of law, so we can't just get rid of contracts that are unpopular. That said, I'm a little unsure why Why does the NY attorney general have standing to subpoena a company regarding pay practices in another country? Seems like grandstanding to me.
Also, I'm not a big fan of Cuomo's tactics here. He basically set a deadline for AIG to provide him with information. If they didn't meet his arbitrary deadline, he was going to try to subpoena the information. It seems to me that the proper policy when you are asking a company for confidential compensation information is to just go ahead and get the subpoena. I certainly don't want the company I work for to release my salary to an attention seeking politician just because that politician called a press conference and demanded it.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 16 March 2009 at 6:20 PM
From Twitter (#1338562218)
Took my car to the Nissan dealer for the 2nd time in as many months. I got the exact same rental car I had the last time.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 16 March 2009 at 4:16 PM
From Twitter (#1334576957)
This week's "United States of Tara" features a roadtrip to the St. Louis Galleria.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 15 March 2009 at 10:24 PM
From Twitter (#1334473514)
Only two hours in, but NBC's "Kings" is looking pretty good.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 15 March 2009 at 9:58 PM
From Twitter (#1331202377)
John Burroughs, a private HS here in STL, recently sent out prom invitations. They are stirring up a bit of controversy: Link
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 15 March 2009 at 7:50 AM
Did Madoff just put his clients' money in the bank?
If it's true the Bernie Madoff simply deposited his clients' money into a back account at Chase Manhattan rather than investing it, as this article indicates, wouldn't that almost be a good thing? The market lost something like 50% of its value in the past year and wiped out 15 years of growth. Money in the bank didn't grow like the market did over the past 15 years, but it didn't come tumbling down in the past six months either. There's obviously more to the story as it doesn't appear that the money is still at Chase. If it were that might almost be a good thing for the Madoff investors.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 15 March 2009 at 7:23 AM
From Twitter (#1330134758)
Was that Simon Rich -- of joke book fame -- playing the NBC page in SNL's cold open tonight?
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 14 March 2009 at 11:09 PM
From Twitter (#1316652490)
Changing cubes is a pain. I spent most of yesterday afternoon packing and most of this morning unpacking just to move about 20 ft.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 12 March 2009 at 10:57 AM
From Twitter (#1314273543)
I'm also pretty obsessed with Link
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 11 March 2009 at 10:16 PM
From Twitter (#1313850577)
I'm pretty obsessed with Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 11 March 2009 at 8:34 PM
From Twitter (#1307214137)
Anyone want an old Palm Tungsten T3 PDA? It's free.
Comments: 1 Posted by david on 10 March 2009 at 3:42 PM
Why food is still so expensive at the grocery store
The nation's big grocery chains contend that food manufacturers have raised prices too fast and too far, considering large drops in prices for fuel, corn, wheat and other important commodities in recent months.The food companies disagree and say they are still coping with many rising prices themselves.
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These increases factor in the growing practice by the manufacturers of shrinking the weight of the contents without reducing wholesale prices.
In short, you're paying more for less these days because food manufacturers bet that prices would continue to rise and signed futures contracts that locked in the high commodity prices of recent years.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 8 March 2009 at 11:54 AM
From Twitter (#1296528046)
I don't like springing forward.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 8 March 2009 at 10:03 AM
From Twitter (#1295508449)
Two police cars now sitting outside my flat. Not sure what they're up to, but they seem to have some purpose in mind as they aren't leaving.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 7 March 2009 at 11:53 PM
From Twitter (#1295403257)
New neighbors are having their second party of the week. There is one guy who seems to really like yelling and, perhaps, throwing things.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 7 March 2009 at 11:06 PM