Monthly Archives: November 2005
Presenting the latest addition to our home…
Request for Physical Addresses
Some people I know have moved since last year. Some of you more than once. I’m working on updating our contact database for the purpose of sending Christmas cards out. If you think we may not have your physical mail address, and you’d like a Christmas card from us, then please email your address to pete@cooperjr.name.
Thank you.
Quote of the Day
“Discharge of a nuclear weapon will be deemed a warlike act even if accidental.” — Excerpt from my house insurance policy
Victory!
I just played in my first Ravnica booster draft at FNM at TJ Collectibles.
I went 3–0, winning my draft pod.
I won 8 packs and a very cool promo Counterspell.
I am very happy.
And now I need to get some sleep since tomorrow Jessi and I will be playing Two-Headed Giant.
Nomic Quote of the Day
In response to a part of my B Nomic proposal in which I wrote:
An External Force is anything which exists independently of the game. That is, it would still exist if the game stopped existing, and would still exist if the game never started existing.
Another player named Wonko replied:
I think that should be “would still exist if the game *had* never started existing”. As it stands, it implies that “never starting to exist” is something the game might still do.
Which actually might be possible, who knows?
I love Nomic.
An ethical dilemma
Jessi and I are settling into our house well. It’s starting to feel normal to live here. Our driveway got paved yesterday, and it looks nice, although they left a lot of dirt in our front yard.
So now, they naturally would like payment. They’ll take $5,000 if I give them a check, but if I get cash, then it’s only $4,700. This seems a bit… fishy to me. I know that it can’t cost them $300 to process a check. So, there has to be something more going on. My guess is that if they get a check, then they report it on their income taxes. But if they take cash, it just goes into their pockets and they don’t properly report it. (And it’d be much tougher for an IRS audit to establish a paper trail, or something.)
So, what should I do? Just pay the cash, and hope that they’re honest people who just don’t like dealing with checks? Pay them the full amount with a check, just to hope that they do the right thing anyway? Pay cash and send in a tip to the IRS or something?
Quote of the Day: This is Broken
“This change will give you a new annual premium. This request will not cause a change in your annual premium.” — Email from Liberty Mutual confirming my address change that I submitted on their web site.