Something we’ve known for years is that all the paper in the world doesn’t mean a person can actually perform the job and a recent study seems to bear out that IT skills triumph certifications in the real world. What certifications do, like degrees, is get you noticed and increase your likelihood of getting an [...]
Don’t let the article fool you, Massachusetts has had lots of turkeys, they just send them all to Washington! Seriously though I’ve been a woodsman for 30 years and have not in any of that time seen the plethora of wild game that I see today. I have to wade through Turkey and deer on [...]
If you bought a house on an ARM, especially with introductory rates, expecting to be making more before the full payments came due the all benevolent Countrywide Mortgage is going to let you refinance. Overall its probably a good move for everyone especially now that lenders are realizing they’re not going to be able to [...]
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a cardboard toilet for traffic jams. I think they realized how that sounded so threw in the bit about its uses during natural disasters… the disaster being a shortage of shovels for digging your own, apparently…..
I can’t fault Chuck Noris’s choice for president. On a policy front I quite like Huckabee a lot, probably more than any of the front runners, but have doubts of his electability which is where I think Fred Thompson will do well. Unfortunately, as much as I like Thompson I’m afraid he really may be [...]
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger-Kennedy is urging Republicans to assume the political idealogical vacuum left by the Democrats of 40 years ago since the current Democrat party has assumed the idealogical vacuum left by the fall of the USSR.
The crook probably learned more at the hands of his victims than he ever would have serving time in prison. I think the cop called it right, too. The crook was luck all they did to him was make him clean up the mess when the homeowner would likely be legally justified in shooting him. [...]
Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore’s ‘alarmist’ Inconvenient Truth. Sadly the irony is lost on the Greens.
Google bans anti-MoveOn.org ads
If you’ve considered OnStar for your next GM purchase you might want to consider that Cops can turn off your car via the OnStar system. Now this may seem practical especially since some people will be willing to pay for the privilege of living in an increasingly police state. At the same time you have [...]
Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amateur photographer an avid motorcycle rider, shooter and firearms collector.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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