I am too lazy to sort
“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”
Alan Greenspan, Former Chief of the Federal Reserve
In my GoogleReader feeds, I have a number of economic commentators. They’ve been a good read to understanding what this financial turmoil is all about. Yet, all their posts have been depressing for quite sometime, so I usually skip over them and mark them read. I have no time to get depressed when I am already depressed.
Still, today’s link caught my eye earlier this week. It’s Barry Ritholtz explaining who to blame for this mess. Not really, but he does explain some of the key causes that enabled the problem to fester.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/why-lending-sta.html
I am so on the pre-order list for this.
The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.Article 9 part 2 of the Japanese Constitution
Taco Bell is trying to go out of business. That is if tacos don’t cost too much for them to make. For any base stolen during the Fall Classic, they’ll give away a taco. Did anyone steal a base last night?
TheSeed had to post to his more hoighty-toighty blog that my comments are disabled. I did nothing to change my layout and/or setup on blogger. So I check out BloggerBuzz for anything new.
Guess what? They updated the commenting functionality for blogger. They added some kind of drop-down menu or embedded comment form. It’s on by default. They say it works for all types of templates. I’m using a custom old style layout. The new commenting system didn’t work out of the box. I have had to reset to using the old, full page style. Thanks, a lot, blogger! I had to spend some time figuring out what happened. They should’ve just notified us of the new style rather than going ahead and executing the change immediately. Do they even regression test this stuff? SHEESH. I wonder what the new commenting forms look like.
Anyway, you can now harass me in the comments. But remember, this site is for kids.
That’s disappointing.
I can’t guess whether it’s the topics or the writing that generated this result. I know I write about meaningless stuff, but I try to write well, clear and concise. I guess doing so may make it easier to understand. I’m not so high-falutin’ here. I’m just a regular guy, a “Joe the Plumber” type of guy.
Christ in the mirror
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Jesus appearing in the shower mist in the mornings.
nagato-111
Originally uploaded by duroyal420.
TheSeed asked me the other day, “Why do you like the Japanese ships?”
He was referring to the IJN Yamato model on my coffee table.
“I’m wanting to build out the Imperial Japanese Navy fleet.”
“I’m also fascinated by the Nagato.”
Here’s a look at a completed model of the IJN Nagato. It was the only Japanese battleship to survive WWII. The US confiscated it as the spoils of war and used her at the atomic testing grounds on Bikini Atoll. She sank after the second of two atomic bomb tests.
Nagato is also the name of my favorite character from The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzimiya. I like to consider her the mascot for my MacBookPro.
"My friend, you have seen this incident, based on sworn testimony. Can
you prove that it didn't happen?"Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space
