Between business travel last week (Including attending the keynote speech at Manufacturing week by Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens), reading Jeff MacGregor's excellent Sunday Money, building and configuring my Jerker, eating right, working out, and otherwise generally wasting time playing Lego Star Wars on the GBA I bought a few weeks back, I haven't bothered to post anything in 10 days.

Funny, I always find time to comment on other blogs, even when I don't have enough to support a post of my own.

Re-reading my list of activities above, it seems that I've reached a busyness level that forced me to abandon posting for a while. It seems that low real world activity leads to no blogging, moderate activity gives the proper balance of available content & time to blog, but too much activity, while giving ample source material to create interesting posts, kills the availability of time neeeded to write posts.

How can a news outlet run a story about a marijuana grower, living on High Street, who painted large images of pot leaves on the side of his house and not include a picture?!

Luckily, it happened just a few towns over from me, so if I'm out and about this weekend I may have to swing by and get a picture.

Other stories about this that do not include pictures.
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UPDATE: I found a pic on Fark. Road trip averted.

Wouldn't the world be a better place if this waste of oxygen was simply killed by a cashier while pulling one of his 16 (known) robberies?

A man accused of repeatedly robbing fast-food restaurants and markets became so familiar that employees at a Taco Bell would open the cash register when they saw him coming, police said.

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In other news of the stupid, why would anyone believe a Billion Dollar Bill exists? Wouldn't this have to be considered a novelty simply becuase it is so ludicrous?

The video here explains that they were being used by a con man who explained that the bills had been hidden in a cave in the Phillipines since WW II.'

You can't con an honest man.

I went to hear the Spelman College Glee Club at Hartford Stage tonight. They were wonderful, talented, energetic & a joy to hear.
(FWIW, they were singing on the set of "A Raisin in the Sun, hence the strange backdrop.)

A fun shot I took last night of the Moon and some contrails.

I guess Isaac Hayes received marching orders from the scientology mother ship: He is going to quit South Park.
Bummer.

A little bit on CFIUS that I wrote a few years ago when my then employer tried to sell my NNPT sensitive division to an Indian company.

Good resume advice in a comment over @ Say Uncle.

That whole post reminded me of some friends at school who called mocha latte "Resume," really accenting every syllable. This was done so that, when they should have been conducting a job search, they could say that, "We're going to work on our Resume," meaning that they were going to drink coffee and hang out.

Strange search result.

A search for "PSP lego star wars" on amazon.com leads to this item.

You'd think that amazon might want to exclude such adult products from the search results to queries that includes lego.

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I spotted this cool old truck/van in Bloomfield, CT last winter, only taking the picture out of my camera today.

The plate says early American vehicle, but I wonder if this was originally made for export?