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I don’t let my daughter or nephew sing this song in my house. They are too young. Sure, it’s catchy… but it makes me feel like the captain of the “starship white trash”. It’s bad enough I live in a trailor.

Anyway… I thought the video was fitting (and funny).

Tags: apple bottom jeans, teletubbies

I decided to set the setting to allow gravatars as well… so if you have one, that will show up in your comments. If you do not have a gravatar, then you get a free monster id. Yippie…

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I read CNN often. Today I came across an article titled “Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal“…

Surging prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress trying to bring back the steel-made pennies of World War II and maybe using steel for nickels, as well.

(Read the full article here)

I find this interesting. I couldn’t care less what my money is made of, but rather what it is backed by (which, is another topic altogether…)

I see a lot of people commenting about the losses we carry by having a penny that costs 1.67¢ to manufacture… Or that a nickle costs 7.7¢ to make.

But in the same article, they note that a dime costs only 4¢, a quarter only 10¢ and that a dollar coin costs around 16¢.

So when people talk about the loss of revenue based on how much we spend on making the penny and the nickle, why do they not offset this by the profit on the other coins?

I understand that the loss is a new loss, but it’s not like it doesn’t even out across the coins, or lean into our favor in the long run.

We can drop billions in bombs on other countries, but we are worried about a few cents taken out of profits on manufacturing our coins?

As a web designer I come across new websites all the time. Including sites that I really don’t have a lot of personal interest in. LumberJocks is one of those.

LumberJocks is part of a network of sites. LumberJocks, HomeRefurbers & GardenTenders all look the same in overall feel, but display different color themes based around the topic at hand. Lumber is brown & Garden is green, for example.

I mention these sites because I like them. I feel from a web development and design stand point they are very well done. There is something about the community feel and the mashup/APIs used that really flows well together.

I big “job well done”, pat on the back to whomever developed that network of sites.

My current favorite Pandora.com station…  Nosejobs and pepsi cans

Ma ma se, Ma ma sa, Ma ma coo sa… Jam on it!  

Any thoughts?

I just installed a plugin to give everyone who posts a “monster avatar”. The plugin assigns you an avatar based on your email address and it is the same on all blogs that use this plugin.

So, to see your avatar, post a comment.

If you want it for your blog, you can get it here.

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