Month: May 2012

I’ve read more than once that people have a tendency to give up just before they would’ve had a breakthrough.  Scientific discoveries are built on the backs of people who gave up – the next specialist takes one more step, and voilá!  It’s the last step, that one last move which takes the Nobel Prize…

I think it’s extremely cool that we are seeing space exploration become a commercialized venture.  The space race had stagnated in the public venue, virtually on its death knell.  Moving it to the private sector means revitalized interest and hopefully, a return of our literal and figurative upward trajectory.  A journey to and from Mars…

Okay, so I don’t really turn purple, mostly.  Almost never, anyway.  It just drives me insane when people throw trash beside trash cans, when it would take all of two additional seconds to actually hit the mark.  It happens at work: hello?  Paper towels go INSIDE the trash can, not next to, behind or on…

The house is still in limbo – the deal isn’t officially dead at this point, just got thrown into negotiations.  Seriously – the folks who are selling have already had two potential buyers walk away, so it would be idiotic to toss another offer to the wind.  Then again, there are a lotta stupid people…

Yeesh.  The idiot factor hath reared its ugly head.  The folks selling the house asked to close in June and rent back from us for a month.  That was reasonable and we were fine with that.  Then they started playing games. They wanted me to agree to waive the appraisal clause so if the house…