Dynamics of Cats

Chandra in 3D

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:08:45 -0500

Gorgeous 3D gallery toy for Chandra images from ChandraBlog

Requires CoolIris plug-in.

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Plasticized Piss Redux

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:22:44 -0500

Eating Plasticized Piss is NOT A Good Idea

If I could think of it back then...

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The Essence of Kleptocracy

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:57:39 -0500

At my advanced and cynical age, I have concluded some level of corruption in the political process is necessary.

And I say that despite the very nice "thank you" note that Mr and Mrs Obama sent my wife last month for the challenge donation.
They must have had to write a lot of thank you notes.

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Iceland - A Start

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:15:47 -0500

I had a really nice roast leg of lamb for dinner tonight, Icelandic free range, grazed on mountain grasses. Roasted pink, with a bit of garlic and light brushing of home made marinade.
Only $7.99 per pound at Whole Foods, picked it up on my last trip. We'll be eating lamb sandwiches all week.

Also picked up a bit more than a case of Skyr - mostly the proper plain stuff, but also a few pre-sweetened vanilla for the kids. They ate three the night I brought them back, now stretching the remainder to last a bit.

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The Compleat ÜberNerd

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:04:40 -0500

For posterity, a link to The Compleat ÜberNerd - Tanta's magnum opus on the mortgage industry.

It is a great example of how blogs can be used for outreach, and were of tremendous utility to the readers at the time they were written.

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monday

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:05:26 -0500

I have a bad feeling about this monday.
Irrational, I know.

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Tanta RIP

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:55:23 -0500

Tanta, one of the co-bloggers on the extraordinarily good blog Calculated Risk has passed away.

She was infamous for her übernerd series of technical posts and analysis of micro and macro issues in the mortgage and finance industry.

She'll be missed.

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Deadliest Novel

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:17:26 -0500

The Yorkshire Ranter suggests that the ~~Dog's~~[sic] Dogs of War by Forsyth as the world's deadliest novel.

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fiction meets reality

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:11:49 -0500

'couple of good ones from the Yorkshire Ranter

Pakistan paranoia

and World's Deadliest Novel

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iPod iChing - gissa job

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:40 -0500

Yikes, it is friday already, again?
Ok, we only have a reduced travel set of iTunes, but here goes.

Oh, mighty iPod - jobs, astronomy jobs that is, gonna be any over the next year?

Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.

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economist catfight

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:19:00 -0500

First Krugman makes a snarky comment about the grownups coming (though I seem to have heard that one before, a few years ago, how did that work out?).

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"bite me"

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:37:06 -0500

is, loosely translated, what the leader of the opposition "red-green alliance" said to a government member of Alþing in Iceland, who claimed the opposition had been procedurally delaying the setup and start of investigation into the Icelandic banking crisis.

This came during a vote of no confidence in the government.

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2,185,714

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:47:45 -0500

is how many people you could employ for a year for $306 billion, at a cost of $70 per hour, for 40 hour work week, 50 weeks per year.

Those people would then go out and spend the money, generating some velocity and additional jobs.

or at a mean hourly rate of only $15,000 - you could get 1,000 of the top financial executives in the USA, for a year.
That is, to be fair, taking the mean only for the top 20 or so CEOs.
So it'll buy you a bunch of COO and CFOs for matched sets.

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International "Talk Like A Banker Day"

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:35:19 -0500

We need one of those.

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Monty Python

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:41 -0500

everyone does know that there is now an official
Monty Python channel

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