Coyote Blog

Headed for our once every two years (is biennial twice a year or once every two years?) family reunion at Disney World.  Years and years ago, when we first started this tradition, Disney World was deserted on Thanksgiving week - no one wanted to be away from their families.  Now, its a total zoo and about the busiest week of the year.  Though I am a sucker for tradition, I am going to petition the family for a date change before the next one.

Every time I go to Disney World, I think of this exchange from National Lampoon's Thats Not Funny, Thats Sick:

(fake) Mr. Rodgers: "would you like to go to the magic kingdon?"

Stoned-out Bassist (Bill Murray): "no thanks man ... I gotta drive." 

Over the couple of months I have been blogging, I have been moving steadily up the TTLB Ecosystem.  Today, when I looked at the site, I thought that I had surely fallen a notch.  Yesterday I was a crusty crustacean, but today I am a slimy mollusc.  That felt like a drop, but, as it turns out, I actually moved up.  I guess squids are pretty cool, but my anti-mollusk bias probably comes from living in Seattle for a while and finding my patio covered in giant banana slugs.  Ugghh.

UPDATE:

Now I am a lowly insect.  This is progress?

I wrote here about my frustration with friends and family credulously forwarding hoax or urban legend emails.  Here is a nice post at techno mom with similar advice.  This post has similar advice.

COTV #113 is up Food Basics, yet another on the growing list of Arizona Blogs.  This site has its article on Meyer's Law featured.

This week's Carnival of the Vanities is up at Lets Try Freedom.  Look who's right up top!

Hello to Arizona Watch, which seems to focus on politics and news here in AZ.  Anyone with links all over their site to Cato, Eugene Volokh, Virginia Postrel, and Assymetrical Information can't be all bad!

Hosted this week at Quibbles and Bits, check it out. There are even some posts that have nothing to do with the election (gasp).

Coyote Blog is included this week with a two parter on libertarianism and the environment, followed by an analysis of what we know about Kyoto.

Also, if you are looking around, check out our analysis of the relative fate (in terms of economic well being and political freedom) of the colonies of France, Britain and the US.

This week's Carnival of the Capitalists is up here.

Dave Berry has lots of good ways to waste your remaining hours in the office today.

I have been using Google's beta desktop search for a while. It is awesome. It needs some help organizing results better, but it blows away the crappy function in Windows. Try it here

My wife has started a business designing and making purses. In her first major sales outing, she sold 40 in about 2 hours. Congrats. Check out her funky purses at KateGroves.com

Find the Carnival of the Vanities at the Peoples Republic of Seabrook.

By the way, I think their web site has one of the nicest looking header graphics I have seen on a blog.

This weeks Carnival of the Capitalists is up. Check it out.

In Chicago for a few days to take my kids to some of my favorite museums - Art Institute, Field Museum, Museum of Science and Technology.

Of course, within about 5 hours of arriving, one my my kids has barfed all over me. I do not know what it is - my kids are very seldom sick but travel seems to wipe them out. One or the other has barfed in the first 24 hours of the last 4 vacations. Wish me luck

Welcome to readers of Professor Bainbridge, Club for Growth, and the Carnival of the Capitalists. If my hosting company was Citicorp, they would be calling me right now to ask me about the unusual activity on my account.

In particular, I want to wish a happy second anniversary to the Carnival of the Capitalists

Welcome to Carnival of the Capitalist readers. Its great to have you here. If you are looking for the series on buying a business, it starts here. I have started a new series on working with the Department of Labor here. Future series will include posts on managing multi-state businesses, workers comp, liability insurance, sales taxes, and government contracting.

So far, I have had a really good experience getting this site up on TypePad. The one problem I have had with an otherwise very well thought out tool is the lack of spell check. I am a completely dysfunctional speller, and HAVE to have spell check.

Another blogger recommended ieSpell, which can add a button to your IE tool bar, or, as I use it, add an option to the right click menu. So far, this tool has been a lifesaver. Highly recommended.