July 2008
10 posts
Economy Time!
I hate to say I told you so.
The economy is still in a tailspin and I read that India has got a similar problem with predatory lending.
Two documentaries that I saw a couple years ago turned out to be on the money. One was Maxed Out. It told about the gross amount of debt that Americans are in and how our economy depends on it and the growth it creates. The second movie was a peak oil...
Car Culture in Ohio
A few weeks ago, I went to a Toyota dealership to look at their Priuses. Really, I’d rather not have to have a car at all, but I just moved to Ohio and cars are pretty much a necessity of life here. This is the land of multi-car families, where car-pooling is practically nonexistent, and most vehicles stuck in traffic during rush hour have one driver and no passengers. Hell, there was a time when...
No Panic
A number of small, no-name banks went under last week causing small runs on banks all over the nation. I saw pictures of angry penny-savers mobbing police-guarded doorways. The only difference between depression bank runs and these are the number of bowler hats.
This appears to not be limited to small banks, however. Wachovia is apparently collapsing and a particularly distraught branch is being...
An Air Drummer & McDonalds
On the 47 later than normal, I saw a guy outside the bus. He was wearing really nice slacks and shoes with a moderately ratty undershirt and headphone wires flew around him up to his ears. He was walking with great haste, really speedwalking with that terrible hip swing. Despite looking like he was late for his master opus he was totally rocking out on the air drums.
There is a 50s-era McDonalds...
Wordpress iphone app released
I gotta say that beyond the weird hang up the first time I installed this app,it now performs perfectly! All of the simplicity I have come to expect from the iPhone is here in sweet wordpress fuctionality. Now if they could make the keyboard landscape I would be in love. :)
Massive Change
With my terrible attention span, my perspective changes a lot or cannot be relied 100% upon. There are very few things that I percieve as constants because I will either forget or redirect my focus. One of the constants is change though. Things change constantly and the amount of change changes, but there’s always opportunities created to do the right thing.
I went to Yosemite national park...
epic serve
This video is really really funny. read more | digg story
Reboot
I started playing World of Warcraft again on a PvE server. I’m not sure what class I’m going to play but I leveled up a Human Warrior named Recession and an Orc Warlock named Badchoices to 10.
-playing tons more ping pong
-wedding planning while watching Jack Bauer in ‘24’ from season 1 with Lauren
-got glasses for my near sightedness, can now read subtitles from couch
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Y: The Last Man, The Last Volume
The final volume of Y: The Last Man came out a while ago. I didn’t get it until yesterday because somehow I marked on my calendar it wasn’t coming out until July 1st. So I’m reading it two weeks late. Awesome.
If you haven’t read this series I highly recommend it. I expect this to be made into a movie soon.
Lord of the Rings Online looks funny
Last night, driven by my bottomless apitite for escapism, I joined the Lord of the Rings Online 15 day trial. The game looks like ass on my computer. Everything is aliased and the textures and models look like something done at community college 3D school.
I’ve heard the gameplay is kind of like WoW, which if true means I won’t be playing LOTR:Online much longer than 15 days. Can the...