January 2009
38 posts
DABA →
My guilty pleasure du jour.
Testilying - what a marvelous word! →
As for the issues, they’re hard, but I dislike the idea that the police can frisk me at any time.
magicmolly:
It wasn’t any colder this morning than it was yesterday or last week, but things (and people) seemed more bitterly affected. A gray cat outside the house was dying and everyone on the subway platform had that closed look of self-preservation, as though their faces had an “on” switch that had yet to be activated.
Lately it feels like New York is angry, and confused, and a little...
Worms →
THAT’S how I could have prevented hayfever?
CFL weaknesses →
Where can I get these great-light CFLs?
The "I'm Broke" Meal
incurable:
blocksonblox:
Yeah. I’m broke right now. So I’m eating my go-to “I’m Broke” meal which consists of some hashbrowns, bread with butter/oregano/garlic salt that I broiled in the oven, and some spaghetti sauce to dip said bread in.
What’s your “I’m Broke” meal?
Easy Mac and a bag of Morning Star fake meat crumbles. It’s cheap, tastes great, and you can eat it forever.
Grilled...
Chicks With Glasses = Hot
incurable:
I’m just sayin’
So. True.
Jive
I just learned that I’ve been mis-using “jive” for years! Apparently my theories may “jibe” with reality, they don’t really jive. I still think that they should jive together.
Geithner is a liar and a tax-dodger. Tough though... →
“It is the opinion of mainstream and state-of-the-art medicine and physiology...”
– Environmental toxins are a real problem, but these are not the solution
-NYT
“Seven people in every thousand (390,000 total) in England and Wales gave their...”
– I learn nifty things at work
-National Statistics
“(O)ne of the more uncomfortable findings of the scientific study of marriage is...”
– NYT
I love Tara-Parker Pope’s articles
“You should bookmark LOLcats if you love them so much”
– -AS
I might just do that…
Leave it to Beaver is over →
An interesting article on how the downturn is stressing both “mercenary marriages” and traditional gender roles.
“Fund of funds are a cancer on the institutional-investor world. They facilitate...”
– Dale Swenson, manager of Yale’s endowment
“drugstore operator Duane Reade… (is) at significant risk of default, with...”
– While I’m surprised, I am not particularaly sad.
-WSJ
Apple share of cell phone market (Q3 2008)
US Worldwide
5.7% 6.9%
I’m surprised that the share US is smaller, but I guess that we were already satisfied with our non-3G phones, and there was pent-up demand in the rest of the world.
- WSJ
Will Ferrell is coming to Broadway? →
“We want the abolition of the National Banks, and we want the power to make loans...”
– Kablamo! Why don’t we hear this stuff today?
Mary Elizabeth Lease (aprox 1890), from Mr. Market
“The worst is yet to come; there is a blood bath coming”
– According to Matthew Haines, a founder of the real estate site Propertyshark.com, about New York City real estate - NYT
*sigh*
“In the American buying spree of recent years, the most profligate spenders were...”
– WSJ
“Charlie and I don’t talk a lot anymore”
– The Snowball - chapter 53, footnote 19.
Warren Buffett on Charlie Munger, and the biggest surprise for me in the whole book.
