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Autumn loves to watch my videos of steam locomotives, and now she’ll walk up to the TV and point and say “wooo wooooooooooo” … so naturally we took her to the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah while we were here. I even bought her a book about Engineer Small and his locomotive.




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You've stumbled upon my mixed bag of ramblings about economics, politics, news, human stupidity, programming, and geeky stuff in general ... all from the perspective of somebody who scored as a 100% libertarian on the Nolan Chart.
I'm a Chattanooga resident, Web developer, Mac user, and amateur photographer who really likes taking pictures at night. I'm a Krystal Lover! I (used to) drink too much Coke, and own a General Electric refrigerator from the late forties. I'm currently servinc as the Chair of the Hamilton County Libertarian Party, President of ChattaMac (our local Mac Users Group), and I organize a PHP Developer's Group locally.
To find out more about the refrigerator (or to chat about anything you read on here), email me at j.clifton@four-eight-four.org.
Yay! I found a program (DoubleCommand) for OS X that allows the user to, among other things, disable the caps lock key! It’s now been installed on my computer, so that I don’t accidentally activate the blasted thing. Now if we could just have it installed on all computers by default, or just remove it from the keyboard. The caps lock key is most certainly one of the most foul inventions to have been foisted upon humanity in the last few hundred years.
(1)OK, at long last the photo gallery is back. I’ve started the process of moving my stuff to Flickr, so I don’t have to try to integrate Gallery2 and WordPress any more … it was way too painful.
(0)So, I saw on CNN this morning that Bernanke is now “concerned” about inflation. Well, it’s about time! Gold started last year at about $600, and ended it at about $800/ounce. As of the last week, only two months into the year, it’s been hovering around $950. Gas prices are up. Food prices are up. And he’s just starting to be concerned? Please. This is like being concerned about a plane crash after the fourth engine on your Flying Fortress flames out and you just got your tail sheared off by anti-aircraft fire. Most people started worrying when the second engine dropped offline. And Bernanke, bless his little heart, now drops hints that he might lower interest rates again. I guess we might as well go ahead and jettison those wings too and make the inevitable happen a little faster there …
(2)Chattanooga is Home
Historic Chattanooga Photos
White Oak Barber Shop
RedBank Business Association
All of the following are either organizations I'm involved with or the businesses of my personal friends.
Chattanooga Association of Information Technology Professionals
Birth Wellness Midwifery Care of Chattanooga
Mac Users of Chattanooga, Unite!
Chattanooga UNIX, GNU, And Linux Users Group (CHUGALUG)
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN
JiffySlides of Wilmington, NC - Slide & Film Scanning and Digitization
Jonathan Swanson - Wilmington, NC Real Estate
Promotional Products from BuyPromosOnline.com
Wake Forest Coins
Winn Portrait Studio - Ned & Brett Winn
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