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Another storm
Hopefully the last one. The snow from the previous ones hasn't yet melted and we're supposed to get 6-12" tomorrow night and Monday. Oh, joy... -
Wolves and the environment
A short film about Yellowstone Park describes the "trophic cascade" from the reintroduction of wolves. It's how adding that top predator back has had major changes to the park that have helped it recover. Many species of animal and plant which weren't allowed to thrive because of an overpopulation of deer, elk and moose are now doing much better. -
The Fed in 2008: More right wing ignorance
A Daily Beast article refers to Fed transcripts released last week. It mentions how the people who make our nation's financial decisions ignored the most obvious thing in the world: The recession we were quite clearly experiencing. The article refers to a NYT article that says "The transcript for that meeting contains 129 mentions of 'inflation' ( Read more... ) -
University selectiveness and wealth
The "top tier" colleges like to claim that they're open to all people based on ability not on wealth. Right...
This Slate article starts with a chart showing selectivity of schools indexed to the wealth of the students attending. The fancier the school, the more it's a shelter and networking location for the wealthy.
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Lack of Self-reflection: The almost president edition
John McCain said "This is the most naïve president in history." Someone who nominated Palin to be his running mate should never call anyone else naive. -
Very funny
Since no innocents were harmed in this Darwin Award level example of terrorism. -
They call it what?
IHOP has some ads I've seen on the net. "Cream cheese crepes." They're like no crepe I've ever had. From shape, stuffing and topping, they have a different name: Blintzes! However, I guess they figures a Jew name just didn't sound fancy enough... -
Got to spend to make. Urk...
Signed up to go to a vendor road show early next month. That meant it was time to buy either a laptop or a tablet for notes and more while I'm there. The later are less expensive, easier to carry and really all I need until I get more business. Still, it was tough entering the credit card info and purchasing the item. We'll see how it goes. At ( Read more... ) -
Weather and one advantage of unemployment
Changing insurance means I wanted to visit the new doctor for a new patient physical and to get my info into their system. I had an appointment two Mondays ago and we had a big storm. They were shut down. I had one this morning and just postponed. We got another storm yesterday. It's supposed to be around 40 today, but this morning's still right ( Read more... ) -
"Forecast" means "guess"
I've always known that but this morning was proof. We were supposed to get 3-5" of snow. It was closer to 9-10". Just got done with a little shoveling down the yard to the car and around it just a bit. We're do for more tonight and it's easier doing it a bit at a time ( Read more... )