"EXPECTATION is a large ephemeral sand painting portraying the likeness of Barack Obama, located in the Catalan city of Barcelona. It was created before the 2008 US presidential election using a large-scale vector graphic, a GPS topography system and approximately 650 tons of sand." Wow. Via Grow a Brain.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Bush 43’s Ben and Jerry’s flavor?
Apparently, there’s been an internet brainstorm to come up with a decent B&J flavor to celebrate our past president’s accomplishments. GOOD has the list here but here are my top 5 favorites: Nut’n Accomplished Iraqi Road Heck of a job, Brownie WM Delicious Caramel Preemptive … Read More →
Virtually augmented legos!
I’d heard of this fancy new Lego Digital Box experience last month and got to try it tonight at the Burlington Mall’s Lego Store. It doesn’t work with every box but when it does, its really something special. Here I am checking out a giant … Read More →
On taxes…
As tax season comes upon us, and my head starts to hurt from thinking about the tax implications of “married – filing jointly” and “married – filing separately” as well as the estimated taxes that self employed folks need to file and the impact of … Read More →
Random thought on medicare funding…
This is probably a naive thought, but… So medicaid/medicare is one of those exploding costs that will doom us all if left unchecked but the other part of it is that the demographic shift caused by the impending retirement of the boomers will cause the … Read More →