Back in the day…

My new view of Chaya now that she has an iPhone! (Taken with instagram)

My Child’s First Dictionary.

An blog full of awesome!  Ross Horsley’s blog that combines kid’s book illustrations with excellent adult copy….  [Link]

Check out buddy Gavin Andresen and his BitCoin project featured in Forbes Magazine this month!  Not only that, but he was just contacted by the CIA and he’ll be presenting BitCoin to them at the CIA’s HQ in Langley, Virginia next month.  G, be careful dude!

For those of us who are of a certain age, these babies were our first computers. These little devices hold a special place in my heart from the 70s. Adding and multiplying so that it rendered an obscene saying upside down, oh those days were just CRAZY man…But check out all these vintage computers!

Vintage Calculator Museum

My favorite part of Obama’s deficit speech the other day:

America’s finances were in great shape by the year 2000. We went from deficit to surplus. America was actually on track to becoming completely debt free, and we were prepared for the retirement of the Baby Boomers.

But after Democrats and Republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the 1990s, we lost our way in the decade that followed. We increased spending dramatically for two wars and an expensive prescription drug program — but we didn’t pay for any of this new spending. Instead, we made the problem worse with trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts — tax cuts that went to every millionaire and billionaire in the country; tax cuts that will force us to borrow an average of $500 billion every year over the next decade.

To give you an idea of how much damage this caused to our nation’s checkbook, consider this: In the last decade, if we had simply found a way to pay for the tax cuts and the prescription drug benefit, our deficit would currently be at low historical levels in the coming years.

But that’s not what happened. And so, by the time I took office, we once again found ourselves deeply in debt and unprepared for a Baby Boom retirement that is now starting to take place. When I took office, our projected deficit, annually, was more than $1 trillion. On top of that, we faced a terrible financial crisis and a recession that, like most recessions, led us to temporarily borrow even more.

Wordclouds of the words from all the boys and girls toy ads on TV in a period of time….Girls=LOVE and Boys=BATTLE….and we wonder why such a large % of violent crime is perpetrated by guys.