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Ah yes, to live in a college town.  Our local paper reported that a couple of construction signs near UT were hacked, displaying funny messages as seen above.  I love the fact the traffic controller, Bruce Jones, gave high praise to the hacker:

“He speculated that the hacker could be a computer genius from UT.”

Though I agree this is a bit childish, I can appreciate the humor behind such pranks.  It is good to know that Austin is not only known to be a wierd UT football town but also for our evil computer geniuses that hack contruction signs. Go Austin!

Consumerist is running an hilarious post about the number of pharmaceutical grade medicines mixed in your ‘treated’ drinking water. My favorite is the final question and answer:

This Sucks. What Is The Government Doing?
Ah yes, the government. Maybe they can offer an encouraging and meaningful response? Let’s turn for reassurance to Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA’s assistant administrator for water:
“We recognize it is a growing concern and we’re taking it very seriously.”
@#$%!

-Consumerist

A funny way to deliver not so encouraging news.

There is a study out there that claims that though the use of biofuels has benefits that will help us pull the crude oil drip that is firmly attached to the arteries of the world, clearing the land for such crops will actually harm the ecosystem more than traditional fossil fuels. It seems that in order to generate the crops, we will need to plow land that is removing carbon dioxide now, like the rain forests. Like the old saying goes, there are consequences to everything you do, no matter how good nature the intentions were.

I meant to post this yesterday but was too busy to do so. It seems a Canadian oil company has the rights to drill for oil in the Baca county. So what, right? Well since I use to work at Colorado College, this triggered some personal interest. You see, CC has a remote campus down in the Baca county that is not that far from the proposed drilling.

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When Keyla and I bought our land and had a home built on it, we stuck with what we knew, fixed rate 30 year loan. It seems to be back en vogue. I found it amusing that with all the fallout from sub-prime and alt-a loans, it seems the industry had its fill of chewing on investors and now would like us to heal up and regroup. Sub-primes are evil, like a car balloon loans. Personally I wish Keyla and I could have done the 15 year fixed loan but the payment was a bit much. Oh well, I just hope none of my neighbors fell into the sub-prime trap. We have some very cool people around us, hate to see any of them go.