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Miscellany's Factotum: November 2008
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A bit of everything under the sun. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Remember nine months ago, when economists were marvelling over an exceptionally well-performing world economy? The crisis has been answered with reassuring speed and vigor by concerted central bank actions to re-expand the underlying money supply. Have the credit conditions been responding appropriately? By this TED-Spread measure, the current crisis started on the ironic anniversary, 9/11, when the spread stood at 1.21, already moderatel...
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Miscellany's Factotum: September 2008
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A bit of everything under the sun. Friday, September 19, 2008. A Nation of Village Idiots. Http:/ www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/a-nation-of-village-idiot b 127340.html. It's worth pointing out explictly that McCain voted for this Gramm-sponsored legislation, while Biden voted against it:. Http:/ www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll call lists/roll call vote cfm.cfm? Had Biden been listened to at the time, neither Enron nor any of the current chaos would have ever happened. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Miscellany's Factotum: How Graphene Ping-Pong Balls will Change the World
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A bit of everything under the sun. Sunday, November 07, 2010. How Graphene Ping-Pong Balls will Change the World. How Graphene Ping-Pong Balls will Change the World. Nov 6, 2010. If you had studied these specks of carbon monolayer graphene macromolecules ten years ago, you might have earned the Nobel Prize instead of Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, of the University of Manchester. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here's a nice drawing of two layers of graphene:. We will probably soon see graphene-based photov...
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This blog is the story of how a heartless drunk named Mark Nigon destroyed my life: Mark Nigon Police Report #4
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This blog is the story of how a heartless drunk named Mark Nigon destroyed my life. Thursday, July 24, 2008. Mark Nigon Police Report #4. ON 07-02-06 AT APPROXIMATELY 0023 HOURS, I WAS DRIVING WEST ON W JEWELL AVE AT S KIPLING PKWY, WHEN AGENT * * * * AND * * * WERE MONITORING TRAFFIC ON S KIPLING PKWY. MOMENTS LATER I HEARD THESE AGENTS RADIO FOR ASSISTANCE DUE TO A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVOLVING A BLACK 1993 DODGE PICKUP TRUCK DRIVING SOUTHBOUND, IN THE NORTHBOUND LANES. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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hedera's corner: Gentrification
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This is hedera whom you may recognize from my posts at Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy site. Felbernauts and others of good will and good manners are welcome to comment here. Wednesday, June 03, 2015. This is a hot word right now in the San Francisco Bay Area, where you have to be a multi-millionaire to be able to rent an apartment. Well, in San Francisco, anyway. Farther out, not so much. In San Francisco a supervisor actually proposed an ordinance. The argument behind both of these movements is: new hou...
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hedera's corner: Losing the Wars
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This is hedera whom you may recognize from my posts at Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy site. Felbernauts and others of good will and good manners are welcome to comment here. Thursday, January 15, 2015. The hot item right now is James Fallows'. The Tragedy of the American Military. Do you people not read your history? I absolve Mr. Fallows, I think he gets it.) The United States, in its early incarnation as an 18th century British colony, wrote the book. The finest military in the world, in charge not onl...
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hedera's corner: July 2014
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This is hedera whom you may recognize from my posts at Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy site. Felbernauts and others of good will and good manners are welcome to comment here. Tuesday, July 08, 2014. Tech Is Not Pink. Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle. Had a front page article entitled How not to attract women to coding: Make tech pink. Does this make you cringe a little? Credit, was the point of the article. Few exceptions. (Grace Hopper was the previous generation.). In 1982. I took night classes, rea...
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hedera's corner: A Republic, If You Can Keep It
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This is hedera whom you may recognize from my posts at Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy site. Felbernauts and others of good will and good manners are welcome to comment here. Monday, May 11, 2015. A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Every source I look at has slightly. Different numbers for the 2014 general election, probably depending on when they counted. So I'm using broadly rounded numbers. For the 2014 election, California had a population of roughly 38 million. Of that 38 million, about 63% were eligibl...