Thank You, Good Night.

I’ve decided that I need to let this one go. I haven’t been able to regularly update the site in the past year and if things continue on the path they’re on, it will get more and more difficult to get back here with any regularity. It’s rude to have people keep checking back for changes that aren’t going to be made. Free up a spot on your feed-reader!

The site is really a victim of it’s most famous post, and that’s fine. It has catapulted me into a world I never had any inclination of getting into, and I’m so glad it did.

It’s nice not having to pay more than $8 a year for a domain name. It will allow me to leave the site up as it is for the foreseeable future. It stands as a personal diary of sorts (which I refer back to frequently), and many, many, many people link to a number of the posts.

I still live a big chunk of my life on the web, so I updated the list of places you’ll still find me or be able to contact me on the top right side of the site.

Thanks for your views and comments over the past nearly eight years. I had fun and learned quite a bit.

- Ira [11/28/2007]

Mission Accomplished

1596 days, more than 3700 U.S. deaths, 500,000 (conservatively) Iraqi deaths, and our world standing has passed since…

Palatial freemind offices

Here’s me, in the new digs, being an ass.

Cellular Freedom Bill: Something we can ALL get behind.

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) have introduced the Cellular Freedom Bill. Eliminating hidden charges and pro-rating early-termination fees are both WONDERFUL ideas.

Let’s see if it can get through the legislators bought and sold by the telecommunication lobby.

I’m not optimistic.

More here…

A friend of mine walks into the doctor’s office…

A girl walks into a doctor and says, “Hey, my stomach hurts. I hope I don’t have cancer.”

The doctor, a kindly fellow, responds, “Let’s see what’s going on.”

After an ample amount of poking and prodding — and chatting about family histories and such, the doctor offers the following options:

1) A CT Scan.

2) Do nothing.

“Those are two pretty drastically different options, doc,” she says.

“Well, yes, they are, but let’s assume we find something with the CT Scan. You’ll be uninsurable,” and then he mumbles a bit about pre-existing conditions and such. “Oh, and for further information, renal cancer isn’t too bad if we catch it early, but it can be a real bitch later on.”

Her head begins to spin.

“It’s really up to you,” he kindly says, knowing that the options he’s offered both suck.

“Well that’s pretty messed up,” she responds, not saying ‘messed’ but a slightly less classy word befitting the situation that begins with the letter ‘F’.

“Yes it is,” the doctor states, “but it’s a better alternative than you’d have in most of the world.”

Is it? IS IT?

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