Several times now I've raised a clutch of mushrooms. Usually its been Shiitake, but this time Mom gave me a Nameko patch from FungiPerfect. After sitting (apparently) dormant since Christmas, when I came back from LA on the 23rd there were numerous little pin heads of mushrooms. They grow quickly, amazingly quickly, from a dime to a quarter in a ( Read more... )

The Yes on 8ers (why ya gotta be an 8er?) have done a global buy on google ads. They're on basically every single site I look at (including the ones I own). So please people CLICK ON YES ON EIGHT -- MAKE THEM PAY!!!

No not mine, but I did work on the front window display -- those star strobes have been sitting in a box for way too long! (Aside to dvb I have one of your extension cords ( Read more... )

WAMU is dead. Long live WAMU.

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Only one tick found me, but I found him before he could dig in.


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Years ago I took the Micro Economics class at UCSC -- the Astro 2 of the econ canon. It was therein that I became acquainted with the notion of elastic and inelastic demand curves. These curves plot consumption vs price. An elastic demand is something that one will forgo as the price rises, while consumption of an inelastic demand resists ( Read more... )

A day ago the WSJ published another in its long line of "boy taxes are bad" op-eds. This one uses a chart purporting to display Hauser's "Law", which suggests that Government tax revenue (as a percentage of GDP) is invariant wrt to the top marginal rate.

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The light at the end of the tunnel is not even vaguely in sight when sellers are still asking $680k for a 2br. And what a 2br it is! I suggest you check both photos to see what you'd be getting!http://www.idxre.com/idx/detail.cfm?cid=315&bid=1&pid=40304553