Author Archives: Alaska

The future of payment processing

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Alaska

…is Square, and it’s now. I’m intimately aware with the hurdles involved with merchant accounts and bank payment processing (which were the root of GPal/Gpay’s well-publicized disaster spiral last year). For face-to-face retail sales, this is infinitely better. If it … Continue reading →

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Wolves

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Alaska

I’m sorry, I couldn’t stop laughing.

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Or, You Could Just Nuke the Bitch

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Alaska

Required reading from The Last Psychiatrist. You really want to read all the way to the end.

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Thumbs Up!

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Alaska

New Chairs, a fire, and canine companions all spell Comfort. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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TMI

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Alaska

So the past weekend we celebrated my daughter’s 28th birthday at her beautiful new place in the Santa Cruz mountains, and I enjoyed hiking with doggies in the towering redwood forest behind the property. Along about Tuesday I noticed a … Continue reading →

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Bug-Out, Er, Moped

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Alaska

I thought this was interesting. It’s one Calgunner’s low-profile bugout vehicle. He says: “unorthodox, but the best choice given the likely state of all exit points out of the Bay Area.”

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RCOB II

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Alaska

This one had a happy ending, but that the kid had to go through all of it still makes my blood boil: We may be winning on a lot of fronts, but I fear it will require a generational change … Continue reading →

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The Next Wave of CCW Permit Reform

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Alaska

…should, I think, be this: A permit holder currently must qualify on each individual weapon they want to carry concealed, even if they are similar. Under the proposed measure, a permit holder would have to qualify for a revolver, semi-automatic … Continue reading →

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RCOB

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Alaska

You really don’t want to read this. You really don’t.

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Engage!

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Alaska

Since I first saw the bridge of the Next Generation Enterprise, I felt that of all the things they got right with that show, the chairs were the best improvement on the original series. Executive seating is rightly nothing if … Continue reading →

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