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Support pours in for one-armed host.
People!
Teach your kids differences are ok...don't complain.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Stimulus breakdown by state
I was surprised when I heard that out of the $787 billion stimulus package, Oregon was only getting $747 million...less than one percent.
It is low, but not as out of whack as I initially thought when looking at the per capita numbers. Even so, we are fifth from the bottom in aid per capita.
The Wall Street Journal has a great breakdown:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-STIMULUS0109.html
It is low, but not as out of whack as I initially thought when looking at the per capita numbers. Even so, we are fifth from the bottom in aid per capita.
The Wall Street Journal has a great breakdown:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-STIMULUS0109.html
Monday, February 23, 2009
HDTV dive...
We made the dive...we now have a 21st century in our family room...and it's beautiful!
Buying it was not so beautiful. It was like buying a car, my sensibilities temporarily left me, and I forgot how to say "no".
When I left the big box store, the price I paid was nearly double the TV's price. Thank you Mom & John for help getting the money back.
Watching the Academy Awards last night was way more incredible than it use to be!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Help us all
I struggle with this. We could use help ourself, but won't qualify for this. If we are becomming a socialist state, shouldn't we all get help?
How effective all that will be is an unanswered question. No plan can change the fundamental economics of a bubble deflating or an economy stalling — of overpriced homes returning to more-reasonable prices and out-of-work homeowners not having the income to make mortgage payments. What this plan does offer, though, is a series of targeted interventions designed to help specific groups of borrowers, and by doing that to hopefully limit the knock-on damage caused by foreclosures, both to neighborhoods and the overall economy. "This will help some people who deserve to be helped," says Joe Gyrouko, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "But will this stop the decline in housing prices? No."
Best bang for buck...
Huffington Post found this piece. Makes sense to me...all this money should leave us with something to show:
Energy efficiency is surely the lowest hanging fruit in the quest to satisfy our national energy hunger (and to cure our addiction to oil)—household energy use totals about 22 percent of our nation’s total energy consumption, much of which is senselessly wasted through poor design and construction. And of the easy to reach fruits of efficiency, the very easiest to pluck might well be the weatherization of homes, which Amory Lovins, efficiency guru and founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, once called the “oil field in our attics.”
Retraining investment bankers
It's easy to blame them for the economic meltdown. NYC expects to lose 65,000 financial service jobs. That's a lot!
One of the biggest concerns is the shrinkage of the capital markets subsector, which contributed much of the profits the big banks reported during the last boom. Capital markets, which New York dominated, includes the selling and trading of stocks and debt, like the subprime mortgages that fueled the housing bubble.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Smartphones for the classroom?
E would love this!
Industry makes pitch that smartphones belong in classroom - International Herald Tribune: "Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
The only difference now between smartphones and laptops, they say, is that cellphones are smaller, cheaper and more coveted by students."
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Happy 1234567890 Day, Unix Geeks | Maximum PC
Happy 1234567890 Day, Unix Geeks | Maximum PC: "Stop a stranger in the street and ask them what today is and they'll most likely answer 'Friday the 13th.' But if someone tells you it's 1234567890 Day, you can bet they're a Unix geek. That's because at precisely 3:31:30 PM PST today, Unix clocks will read 1234567890."
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thank you Wheelie...
For another interesting blog find:
WHEELIE CATHOLIC: Things you can expect when you write a blog
googling god
...but I'm no longer in my 20's or 30's.
OMG!...I'm getting....
WHEELIE CATHOLIC: Things you can expect when you write a blog
googling god
...but I'm no longer in my 20's or 30's.
OMG!...I'm getting....
Obama support from Maine
How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda - TIME: "But what makes Snowe and Collins more powerful now is that they, along with Specter, are nearly the last survivors of a once common species of moderate Northeastern Republican. As the GOP's center of gravity moves to the right, the Democratic majority has fewer and fewer potential crossovers to choose from. That gives each woman enormous leverage in a Senate Republican caucus whose leaders cannot afford any defections if they are to sustain a filibuster. Both sides know that the math on any close vote is likely to come down to Snowe and Collins."
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I was in the jury pool for this...
Jury acquits Portland bicyclist of resisting arrest - OregonLive.com: "A Multnomah County jury has thrown out charges that a 31-year-old cyclist resisted arrest after he rode by a Portland police officer without stopping, despite the officer's orders. The cyclist claimed it was dark, and the officer was dressed entirely in black.
The jury took two hours today to determine that the 'Rev.' Phil Sano, a well-known member of Portland's bicycle community, was not guilty of the misdemeanor."
Yuck!
The J-Walk Blog: New Soft Drink From India?: "Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India's Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine."
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