...so i obviously haven't been posting on livejournal regularly at all. honestly, i think i'm pretty much done with it. although i want to continue to write and share things with my friends, it's just been increasingly hard to get myself to post here, and i feel like i need a fresh start and a new blog. so, i got one. it has a nice, sleek, modern ( Read more... )

"You must always know when to pull out. A businessman isn't a mathematician. Remember that. Never become hypnotized by the beauty of numbers. A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of ( Read more... )

i just spent the day home sick with some sort of throat infection. kim is in denver till tomorrow for work-related stuff so i was home alone with kitty. i feel pretty out of it lately. like things are changing all around me and i'm tangentially, remotely aware but i'm not following on as closely as i used to. i don't know, maybe it's just a silly ( Read more... )

sometimes lately i get an error and livejournal doesn't load. the welcome screen loads, but my blog and my friends page does not. does anyone else have the same problem or is it just me?

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the guy was a prophet of doom for the past 2 years... and i bet at the time, he must have sounded like one of those crazies you see ranting on the streets about how the world is gonna end. in retrospect he sounds like the only sane guy in the room.

California's propositions are a unique populist institution that were designed to allow Californians to have some direct ability to influence the state's laws and spending. As some of them can alter the state constitution or create billions of dollars of spending (or remove billions of dollars of state revenue), they are important and not to be ( Read more... )

this is the current electoral projection from fivethirtyeight:


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the media.

i saw a man driving a yugo today. i also happened to spot one of the private jets (no mere learjet or gulfstream, mind you; a modified 737 boeing business jet) owned by the third richest person in the u.s.anyway, how many times have i told myself i'd post in here regularly? is anyone even out there anymore reading this ( Read more... )

fess up, i know this describes a lot of us, at least to some extent (and minus the misogyny bit). i feel like i'm mostly ready to grow up, though.

Child-Man in the Promised Land