Being a fairly wired (and wireless) kind of guy, I rarely send out snail mail. I use the web, email and IM whenever I can, and I use an online bill paying service. Hence, I rarely need stamps. I used to alway ask someone for a stamp, and inevitably they refuse the dollar I offer in exchange (lacking change but considering my time to go buy stamps more valuable).
But I finally got to where I have a small book of stamps in my wallet and another on my desk. Now the problem is that I use them rarely, and often have old stamps after the Post Office hikes rates.
Instead, The Post Office should issue stamps for first-class mail with some kind of code, rather than a price. Something like FC-1, -2, -3...etc., incremented each time new rates are effected. I think they already do something like this, but in addition, they should honor older uncanceled stamps as valid for first-class letter delivery, rather than for their face (or book) value. I mean, I paid for some number of first-class stamps, I should be able to use them without having to get extra stamps, just because I don't mail that often.
Now, I'm happy to have the stamp revert to it's monetary value when I combine it with other stamps. But they've gotten to use my money since I bought them, money that could otherwise be earning me interest. So, I figure they owe me the delivery of several first-class letters.

A stunning and awesome return to flight liftoff at 7:39 AM, PDT. STS-114 couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day for a more perfect launch. Plus, the new cameras made for some kickass views!
Congratulations to NASA and to the thousands of people who helped make it a success!

Okay, so I lack focus. Too many projects. School and work, whatever. I’ve finaly gotten most of the parts for the new base constructed. I used EMachineShop to make the motor mount brackets, and found EPPCO, a local Berkeley machine shop, to do the axle block.

Assembled base three-view	Assembled base overhead (actually underneath)
Side view	Drive train closeup
Drive train overhead view

Finally! Woo-hoo! Awesome! My application to transfer from U.C. Berkeley's College of Letters and Science into the College of Engineering was accepted.

Interestingly, they wanted me to accept the admission (like I'm going to say "no"...)!

In this Reuters article, NASA's new administrator talks about how we won't get to the moon 'til 2015 at the earliest, and that that mission will likely be followed by a multinational space station on the moon.

There's nothing on the moon worth the money and the time. It would make much more sense to go straight to Mars, skipping the Moon entirely. We could land humans on Mars by 2015, and have a regular rotating mission every two years, for about a tenth of the cost of the proposed Moon missions.

Bush fucks everything up.