March 2008
90 posts
Spring photo expedition?
hilker:
mattlehrer: Places I want to explore (again or for the first time) soon: Bronx Zoo Prospect Park 125th St. and St. Nicholas Park Fort Tryon Greenwood Cemetery If anyone is interested in joining me or if you have a suggestion for another place, please let me know (email or reblog).
sunday afternoon?
Sunday afternoon it is, all are welcome. This trip will be Greenwood because...
“At $100 a barrel, OPEC’s oil assets stand at roughly $92 trillion, equivalent to...”
– Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and co-chair of the Set America Free Coalition via Celsias
I’m blown away.
Oil’s Fuzzy Math: Prices Skyrocket Despite Modest... →
Coincidental timing on a post on the Seitch Blog today about oil supply and demand that adds to my post from a couple days ago. In 2007, the US used 24.9 barrels per capita per year and China used 2.1.
Chinese oil consumption increased 5.5 percent in 2007 to 7.7 million barrels per day—accounting for half the growth in global demand for the year. China’s oil use has nearly doubled in the past...
Friend Lust
noraleah:
A close friend of Michelle Obama’s has said, “I’ve actually had girlfriends call me and go, ‘You’re so lucky. If I’d only met her 15 years ago, I bet we would be best friends.’”
From “The Other Obama” in The New Yorker.
Made me think about the people I lust after as friends. Definitely the Cusacks. Want to hang out with them. (I’d totally make out with John but I wouldn’t let it...
Spring photo expedition?
Places I want to explore (again or for the first time) soon:
Bronx Zoo
Prospect Park
125th St. and St. Nicholas Park
Fort Tryon
Greenwood Cemetery If anyone is interested in joining me or if you have a suggestion for another place, please let me know (email or reblog).
“If you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to go backward, you put...”
– Hillary Clinton
QQ: Is the current boom in clean energy...
dihard:
I’m writing a paper on this now. Feel free to share your insight via reblog/email.
My sense is mostly yes, it is sustainable, for the following reasons:
I believe in peak oil and that we are at or past the peak. i.e., we have no choice.
The 70s oil shocks were supply side (OPEC limited production and could and did easily increase production later), whereas the vast majority of the...
“In 2008, today’s paper is yesterday’s news”
– Goodbye, New York Times - O’Reilly Radar
Why Jimmy Guterman is canceling his print subscription even though he adores the Times.
“if you are not a strong supporter of the environment, you aren’t a strong...”
– The Sietch Blog » Why Voting For McCain Is A Vote Against The Environment
How To Make Good Tea →
lfarm:
nostrich:
Marco wrote this excellent post on how to make great coffee, so I thought I’d complement it with a post on how to make great tea. Here goes. Insert teabag. Insert hot water. Insert milk. Remove teabag. Stir. I hope this was useful.
I beg to differ on this. It makes the world of difference if you switch your “insert hot water” with your “insert milk.” Milk first, then hot...
“[A]s violence flares up again in Iraq and the American economy skids, the issues...”
– Frank Rich, The Republican Resurrection
Beautiful time lapse video of sites across the US... →
via dPS where the creator, Ross Ching, describes how to do it yourself.
The two best games of the tourney so far happened back to back on the same court in Tampa. Drake and Western Kentucky and then UConn and San Diego. Both favorites came back to push the games to overtime. Both underdogs hit winners to take the lead in the closing seconds of overtime. Incredible.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
editorlisa:
mattlehrer: I watched the 2007 Palme d’Or winner, 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile, last night. That is an intense movie. I think that whatever your opinion on Roe v Wade, you will probably strengthen your opinion after watching this movie. I don’t want to say too much but I’m very thankful we live in a country post Roe v Wade. Don’t be scared; see it. The tumblr feedback loop can...
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
I watched the 2007 Palme d’Or winner, 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile, last night. That is an intense movie. I think that whatever your opinion on Roe v Wade, you will probably strengthen your opinion after watching this movie. I don’t want to say too much but I’m very thankful we live in a country post Roe v Wade. Don’t be scared; see it.
Richardson Plans Obama Endorsement →
Yes!
5 Years, 5 Lies →
Year 1: “There is no guerrilla war.”
Year 2: “Iraq is a model democracy.”
Year 3: “Zarqawi is causing all the trouble.”
Year 4: “There is no Civil War.”
Year 5: “Everything is calm now.”
I also suggest that John McCain is pushing for:
Year 6: “Total victory is around the corner.”
“Something important happened on Wall Street this week. It was not just the...”
– Economist.com: Wall Street’s crisis
“The financial system, or a big part of it, began to lose touch with its purpose:...”
– Economist.com: Wall Street’s crisis
I think this is reason #3 I know it's March
I see this:
And I can’t help but think this:
So for the last two days that song has been stuck in my head except the singer has a lisp.
It’s time once again for the Sheriff of Good Times.
The Fed is in full on panic mode. It’s as if there is no bread and people are buying this market as if Bernanke is saying ‘here’s some icing to hold you over.’ There isn’t even cake. Can someone explain this to me?
“If we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will...”
– Barack Obama. Great speech, great delivery. As expected.
“If it was 2005, Bear would have been allowed to collapse, as the system back...”
– John Mauldin
“Let me reintroduce myself. I am David Paterson, and I am the governor of New...”
– I know I said no more shout-outs but that line kicks ass! (via noraleah)
His delivery was great, especially for having the whole thing memorized.
Tumblr NCAA Bracket Competition →
Good luck! Please re-blog if you are entering.
“Financial markets are as close to collapse as I’ve seen in my career.”
– Chris Rupkey, chief economist, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi via MarketWatch’s quote of the day
“The U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s ended up costing taxpayers 3.2...”
– The B Word - New York Times
Krugman makes the case that a huge taxpayer-financed bailout of the financial industry is coming. And should.
We could be looking at minus 500 points for the Dow Monday. I think it could be a lot more. The canaries have been dead for too long already.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
emilyposts:
Can someone please explain to me, in easy to understand terms, what high fructose corn syrup is and why I should avoid it?
I heard someone mention recently that this is something terrible to put into your body, but I consume it every day in yogurt and Diet Coke, so I’d like to know exactly what harm I’m doing to my body. I’m probably really late to the game if I’m just discovering...
I watched so much great basketball today and am so excited for Selection Sunday and the tourney.
Would anyone be interested in a Tumblr NCAA bracket competition?
Awkward Salesperson Award
I went to Paragon with my friend Kat yesterday to help her pick out a tent and sleeping bag (ok I wasn't much help) for her upcoming two week bike camping trip on the California coast with her brother and then for use in Panama where she's moving with the Peace Corps. She started explaining what kind of tent she wanted to the sales guy.
Sales guy: One person tent?
Kat: Two.
Sales guy: (Looks at her, looks at me) Hubba hubba.
Kat and I look at each other with the universal "did he just say that?" look. We found out about five minutes later that the Hubba Hubba is a two person tent.
Mary Flower, Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues Guitar →
Going to see Mary Flower in Park Slope tonight.
“All those new Google data centers have to be for something more than just search...”
– I, Cringely - Blu-ray Blues. Lots of great info and speculation on Apple and the future of video distribution. Makes a good case that Apple’s Blu-Ray stall strategy is probably a bad move.
5x5
This is inspired by farpitzs’ five things about me post.
Things I love learning about:
Election 2008
Water as a resource in the American West
New York City and why it is what it is
Smartphones
Evolutionary psychology
People in the media I respect:
Jon Stewart
Michael Wilbon
Fareed Zakaria
Frank Rich
David Simon
Favorite Movies:
Office...