Soccer Dad

Thanks etc.

SarcastiPundit writes about an establishment that once had a phone number of a single digit.

It reminds me about an oddity in Delaware. License plates are the property of the car owner. So License numbers can be sold. With Delaware plate 1 through 3 reserved for the top state officials, single digit numbers are very much in demand.

Emmert sold the No. 9 plate in 1994 for a then-record $182,500 to Vassallo's father-in law, Anthony Fusco. This year, a plate in the low teens went for about $290,000 and there is a standing offer of $450,000 for any single-digit tag.

"If you are in this state, and you're a person of wealth and fame, 90 percent of those people have a low tag," said Emmert.

The roots of the tag craze date back almost a century, to the days when many cars were in the hands of rich families like the du Ponts.

"They had the majority of the vehicles and the low-digit plates," Vassallo said. "Everybody wanted to do like the Joneses, like the du Ponts."

Thoughts by Seawitch posted her photographs of the recovery efforts going one near her home in commemoration of 2 years since Katrina. She graciously used my suggestion for the musical accompaniment. And this isn't about Louisiana, but about the state that must not be named.

I appreciate the fine company that Yid with Lid places me in. However, I am no politician. The most you want me doing politically is sitting in an attic somewhere doing opposition research. Thanks a lot though!

View from a Height takes many great pictures out in Colorado. Once I saw a few of his pictures, I recommended Autostitch that someone at work had introduced me too. He use it to great effect during his recent vacation to create some wonderful panoramas. One of these I'll have to use it. When I was in Israel in June, I took 270 degrees around the Kotel (Western Wall) plaza and want to stitch them together. I really have to do it.

Finally many thanks to Don Surber for linking to my post about second careers for rock stars. That in turn led to a link from the Libertarian Popinjay who in turn was instalanched - not that there's anything wrong with that :-) - giving me the benefit of some spillover. You never know what will happen when you highlight someone else's post. But there's always a chance that it will bring them more attention than you thought. I really appreciate what they did for me. Thanks!