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things to remember as the light fades down here in the north. (also, I think it's time to go for a walk.)
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!!!!! (for Kermit, mostly.)(tags: blogosphere politics)
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"Thus the claim by the Fed and Treasury that spending $700 billion of public money is the best way to recapitalize banks has absolutely no factual basis or justification." nice inclusion of actual historical research.
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Isn't that an old D&D map?
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"The liquidity crisis isn't real. Or, to restate it: Any liquidity crisis is caused by the promise of a government bailout." Elizabeth Warren quoting a fellow economist. (Haven't listened to the discussion audio.)
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someday, but probably not now.
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I like their FAQ, esp. the level of detail. (via jessamyn)(tags: finance creditunion)
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very long discussion that lurches about on different aspects. plus: hobos & zombies! "Damn Zombies ate my economic future!"(tags: finance)
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oh, this one is gorgeous.
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I'm looking for something like this for us to keep all our annual stuff in.
links for 2008-09-29
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jessamyn's silver bed. I wonder if I can reverse engineer these photogs into an actual plan?(tags: furniture)
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nice article from Lifehacker. (am thinking about setting up a separate link-blog for all-CU/finance, all the time.)(tags: finance creditunion)
links for 2008-09-27
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the grapevine along the fence is Concord Grapes, as it turns out. this could be kinda fun, although I don't think we'll get much juice out of it.
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drifting? like Fast & Furious? Srsly? hrm.
links for 2008-09-26
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"we're in ur bank/bailing it out" "is that WaMew?" heh.
links for 2008-09-25
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"The situation is both very complicated and very simple." A really really lucid explanation. Read the follow-up about probability math, too.
links for 2008-09-25
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the high(low?)lights: the only 2 VPs with anywhere near as LITTLE experience: Agnew (!) & Chester A. Arthur. I quibble with his Pres. mortality stats, would normalize for improved medical conditions. (the deaths of Harrison, Taylor, Garfield & McKinley seem likely to be survivable w/modern medicine.) but that's beside the point. via mkelley.
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ie, Livejournal circa 1890. 🙂
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HAWESOME quasi-l33t-speak from Roger Ebert.
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has already cost the school more than $5mil. ouch. plus: "I don't have any idea whether we do the debate" at a later date. "(We) probably wouldn't do it."
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looks like they'd be nice beach shoes. (I'm not much for flip-flops either.) and only about $20 for tevas!(tags: clothes)
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"I know for sure my great grandparents would never have made it through this – Instead of being here writing this, I, like they were, would probably be a peasant farmer somewhere in Eastern Europe." no kidding. (IIRC, Ra's g-pa was illegal back in the 50s?)
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"Dr. Rubio does not entirely dismiss the suicide theory, but yesterday she declined to say whether she believes it rests more solidly on other evidence besides the note." so maybe not so deliberate of a suicide, but definitely death by her own hand nonetheless.
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"What has never been revealed is that L.M. Montgomery took her own life at the age of 67 through a drug overdose." apparently after decades of severe depression. oddly enough, the Anne books were one of the things that got me thru the dark times after dad died, up into junior high. (I should send this to Thao.) via alykat.
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"The high priests of unbridled laissez faire need to go take a long vacation now while reasonable people find a sensible middle course. Because you, Wall Street, and you, absolute capitalists, you could dish it out but you couldn't take it."
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if you applied for a loan anytime between 1986 & 2007 (!) then you're eligible for free credit monitoring. (and maybe a tiny bit of cash.)(tags: finance)
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"Locale allows you to create Situations, which specify Conditions under which your Settings should change." killer feature! (would be VERY useful at work, especially.)
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very clear & concise!(tags: politics)
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"Critique-Safe Environments"(tags: usability)
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I think I've mentioned that I tossed 99.9% of the contents of my SXSW swag. (The bag, OTOH, goes with me to work EVERY day. I put all my stuff in the bag, put the bag into a pannier. I love it.)
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fun little effect(tags: photoshoppery)
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$179 with 2-year contract. not sure about how the data plan part works. (we've been with tmobile for 6+ years.)
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I keep losing track of this one; great photos as desktop background images.
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what the title says. 🙂
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"By 2007, an increasingly large number of mornings would find me staring, dead-eyed, at del.icio.us or Digg or reddit, feeling queasy as I wondered what possible role, how ever small, my stupid blog might have had in helping inspire 1,000 hucksters to try their hand at half-assing a living from pretending to help strangers — while providing their quarry an unapologetically infinite source of pointless procrastination in the bargain." also, continue on to part 2, in which there is (apparently) rebirth.
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"In the process of convincing one of these [financial] firms to send me the requisite paperwork, a customer service rep challenged me to answer a custom security question that I had set up when I opened the account (close to 10 years ago now). This is a *good* thing, in theory." indeed.
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"I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you." heh.
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"She's just a cyclist. Riding her bike to work." about this time of year, after all summer riding, it's kinda like that. I get up, throw on some clothes, and get on my bike, without thinking about it a whole hell of a lot.(tags: bicycling philosophizing)
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"Also, if the Singularity ever does arrive, I expect it to be plagued by frequent outages and terrible customer service."(tags: science)
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"The reality is that conservatives have been quite actively using the power of the government to shape market outcomes in ways that redistribute income upward. However, conservatives have been clever enough to not own up to their role in this process, pretending all along that everything is just the natural working of the market. And, progressives have been foolish enough to go along with this view." entire book online. interesting thought experiments!
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that looks a lot like a couple of the tests in Big Brain Academy.(tags: science psychology)
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"Talk like a modern pirate day" and that is all I have to say about that.(tags: funny blogosphere)
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gorgeous butterfly photos from Shelley
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I link this only to say that I drink my morning tea out of a ceramic cup that I got at the *2000* Northwest Bookfest. (I also own a (Air Force square dancing group!) mug that my father got in Germany sometime in the 1960s, which I sometimes use on the weekends.)
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so freaking cute!
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"The problem with anything that relies on network externalities is that stubborn non-adopters can drag down its value for everyone else." the general recommendation of the commenters is to just switch to the new mode, luddites be damned.(tags: intranet)
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"I was reminded of how cripplingly, dully, horrible depression is, how unromantic, how difficult" indeed. sometimes a bit like having yr worst enemy whispering in yr ear all the time.
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oh, these sound both easy & yummy, and I've been wanting to make cinnamon rolls for ages.
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sounds yummy. I like quiche.
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omg. Dr. Bronner quote generator! (via AskMe)
birthday-related improvement
Another year, another birthday, which I suppose is how it ought to be. 🙂 Last night Elizabeth, C & I had pizza, watched vids, made/ate cupcakes & played Mario Kart on her Wii; I imagine tonight will be more of the same, but with homemade burgers subbing for pizza. People were super at work, too, including a gift of more! cupcakes! one for me, one for Elizabeth. The smell of cupcakes taunted me all day. Plus there were birthday tweets, and I got a Harrison Ford (?) bobblehead at McDonalds with lunch.
I’ve been a big ball of stress the last few weeks, and it’s only just in the last day or two that I’ve realized exactly how bad it’s been, as I get back to socializing after being in self-imposed isolation. (Hunkered down in my cubicle alone with my churlish thoughts….) I don’t feel entirely well-balanced, but I don’t feel like the sky is falling either, so that’s good. A little personal journaling helped, and maybe it’s just that the weather went from bleh to phenomenal the last couple of days.
Yesterday I went for a drastic hair change, with some help from Ask MetaFilter. (Yes, srsly. The Mefites were very helpful.) It was about time for me to dump the extra length, and just going to the salon & having my awesome stylist massage my scalp was good for my mood.
This weekend C & I are going to get away to points as yet undecided; the weather looks to continue AWESOME for the next couple of weeks. I’m very excited, if torn between getting stuff done outside at home and running away to play. Here’s hoping there will be time for both!
a quick note
Elizabeth’s been with us for a couple of weeks, and it’s turned out to be a bit bumpier than expected. But I’m happy to have a chance to be around her for an extended period for the first time since I was 17 & she was 11. We’ll be celebrating our birthdays together this week for the first time since then. (I remember my 18th birthday being quite mopey at UPS, something about chicken nuggets in the cafeteria.) So yay to that.
The weather got nice again, and it looks like it’ll be good through September, which is a pleasant change of pace. Here’s to hoping for lots of sun before the iron ceiling closes in.
Not too much else to say. On the hot topics of the intertubes: Sarah Palin creeps me out; Google Chrome is kinda cool, and I don’t care whether they build tall condos on the ithsmus. (That last is a local thing.) Still biking, weight still stable, house still not where I want it to be.