Archive for September, 2008

“Closest Book” Meme

Instructions:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

No sentences in mine.  Page 56 is “cleric” through “coagulable”.

Trickle-Up Economics

If the problem with the economic system is too much bad consumer debt, let’s try addressing it at the source. If all of us could make our mortgage payments, car payments, and credit card payments, there wouldn’t be a problem.   If the government must intervene, let’s have it intervene by giving those people the money to meet their obligations. And let the invisible hand take care of the business world.

And any bailout plan must most certainly contain large dollops of oversight.  Which is not just a euphemism for things being “overlooked”.

Self-portrait meme

From LJ:
Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.) Include these instructions.

Me, at my desk at work

Me, at my desk at work

Lost Positives

“ane”

Forgot to post last night, when I actually did it.