http://09ers.net Explorations In The Sierra Nevadas Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:08:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s true. While Christmas and New Years steal all the attention, Trivia day - celebrated every January 4th - comes right on their heels and is best not forgotten. What better way to celebrate than with some gold-related trivia? The ten billion ounces of gold in the world would fit into a ... http://09ers.net/2009/01/04/gold-and-trivia-day/ Ok, winter is here, our claims are beneath at least a foot of snow, and I really want to build an Igloo. Ryan e-mailed me this link to Grand Shelters awhile back - they are a company that makes a tool you can use to built a strong and warm (relatively ... http://09ers.net/2009/01/02/itchin-for-an-igloo/ Don't get me wrong folks, Plaxico Burress is a first class idiot. Although, I'm starting to question who the bigger idiot is. Plaxico may have harmed the lives of many, including his own by not following some of the most basic safety rules, and I'm not talking about the safety ... http://09ers.net/2008/12/26/plaxico/ http://09ers.net/2008/12/24/happy-95th-birthday-federal-reserve-are-you-dead-yet/ Now that I have graduated college I have been blessed with the fantastic gift of a ginormous pile of debt.  Lately, this burden has brought me a large amount of anxiety and I'm almost positive it is actually interfering with my productive labor. It's a strain on my own mental ... http://09ers.net/2008/12/07/human-capital/ As some of you may know, I work for a company who has a fetish for time (and should stay that way *wink). Life is a collection of memories, and a collection that validates our existence. A life. and for that matter death, without memories, would be like a ... http://09ers.net/2008/11/09/visualizing-geo-time/ http://09ers.net/2008/11/05/death-of-liberty/ http://09ers.net/2008/11/02/no-one-understands-social-choice/ Lew Rockwell interviews Naomi Wolf http://09ers.net/2008/11/01/naomi-wolf/ No no, this is some stupid Silicon Valley blog post about firms having to "batten down the hatches" during rough economic times. God knows I have read enough of that to make a bomb shelter good enough for a four year obama/mccain presidency. This is just a whitewhine.com. If I ... http://09ers.net/2008/10/30/life-lemons/