Random financial numbers

Poverty line for family of 4 (2008) $21,200
200% of federal poverty level $42,400
Median family income for 4-person family in Maine, as of 2006 data $63,501 +/-$2,325
My family income Not where I’d like it to be

Posted by Garrett on April 15th, 2008 in Self | No Comments

I’ve been blocked!

I’m down at the Brewer Library, thanks to a very late cable bill payment, and I just tried to connect to DowneastPolitics.com. The filter popped up as “Malicious site”.

Yeah, right. I submitted it to the “network admin” for evaluation, but I’m not holding my breath. (In related news, it blocks my BoingBoing mirror as an “anonymizer”. Let’s hear it for search engine caches….)

Posted by Garrett on April 2nd, 2008 in Blogging, Civil Liberties, Self | No Comments

Downeast Politics

I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was going to be doing a blog in association with the Brewer Democratic City Committee. I started that up earlier this month; you can find it over at DowneastPolitics.com, if you’re interested.

Posted by Garrett on March 15th, 2008 in Blogging, Politics, Self | No Comments

Which ’80s scientist are you?

Your Score: Ray Stantz

160 Heart, 166 Genius, 119 Cool, 147 Excitability

Dr. Raymond Stantz – (Dan Aykroyd)
Ghostbusters (1984)

You are Ray Stantz! The heart of the Ghostbusters. You’re well-meaning, smart, and you have a childlike sense of wonder about the world. You might get taken advantage of, every once in a while, but it’s okay… You’re doing your part to help save the world.

“Gozer the Gozerian… good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.”

Other scientific possibilities:

Link: The Which 80s Movie Scientist Test written by xxyl on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Self-importance test

I seem to be:

Matt Mullenweg.

Posted by Garrett on September 10th, 2007 in Blogging, Random, Self | No Comments

Score:5, Insightful

Woo hoo! Just scored my first +5 on Slashdot! :-)

My first +5, Insightful

Posted by Garrett on April 13th, 2006 in Self | No Comments

Speaking of resumes…

My contract is going to be up in a couple of months. Anyone planning on hiring VFP programmers in December? :-)

Posted by Garrett on October 23rd, 2004 in Self | No Comments