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If you are a Heinlein fan (and, if youre not, what kind of sick weirdo ARE you?), then you should be familiar with the life philosophy of TANSTAAFL.  I have often found it to be a very useful philosophy when considering the relative "fairness" of life.

However, I have inadvertantly come across an even more apt, and, dare I say it, more compelling philosophy - that of ITOFTS.

Think the song on the popular radio station sounds like absolute junk?  Peace brother.  ITOFTS.

Still turning MTV on, expecting to hear music?  Repeat after me: ITOFTS.

Yes, duckpin bowling.  Never heard of it?  Me either, until I spent a few days in Indianapolis.  They have a duckpin bowling alley there.

Duckpin bowling is similar to 10-pin bowling (which is the bowling you already know) except that the ten pins are about 2/3 the size of regular pins, and the balls are about the size of softballs and weigh around 4 pounds.  Now, the ally is just as wide as for 10-pin, so, since the pins are smaller, there is much more room between them, and you get very little pin action if you hit the traditional 10-pin sweet spots.

I am talking about my PC, although some of THAT would be nice too.  Wife is working late today though, so dont like my odds there.

Anyway, my PC is now fixed.  I am hoping it will stay that way for at least 3 days this time.  :)

I can report that it is a small beast.  Because I needed to see how well it would perform on things my old PC sucked at, I put in Warcraft III and cranked up every setting I could find to crank up.  Smooth as buttah.

Ive recently read two books by by Thomas Sowell, an economist.  Although that may sound like an awful way to spend time, his books are actually very approachable.

Whats really interesting is the way he explains how some things work quite the opposite of how you expect them to work.

I'm such a geek.  I could have called the title of my first blog for 2o2p anything, and I go with the ultimate code cliche.  Ah well. 

Writing on the site - the pressure's on.  How can I possibly top the somewhat wild success of my last site article?  How many people have already stopped reading this?  Arrrrgh!  Deep, calming breaths.  Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.