Friday, November 21, 2008
YouTube alternatives - Big Think & TED
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Big Think and TEDtalks are two video sites to check out when you crave a little more substance than YouTube.
Hitler: Another trade, another margin call
Monday, September 22, 2008
Does the financial meltdown have you craving a little levity? Here's Hitler after a bad day in the market.
Bill Maher - Religulous
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Ah, the Wall Street bailout is starting to make more sense to me now...
Antiques Roadshow
Friday, September 19, 2008
Since the latest stock market charts are bearing eerie resemblances to 1929, let's take a step back in time and try to forget the current financial meltdown for a moment.
My in-laws recently moved to a condo and gave us, among many other wonderful things, a bunch of old cameras and other antiques. I usually have a very modern aesthetic. Our house is all clean, simple lines and contemporary decor. However, I do get a charge out of cool old things like the camera above. It's a Kodak Pocket (they must have had big pockets back then,) model 1A, on the market from 1917-1924, original list price $21. As far as we can tell, it seems to work. It's too bad we don't manufacture much in the U.S. anymore and, even if we did, it sure wouldn't last almost 100 years. I think our modern trend toward disposability has partly fed the "steampunk" movement and the modification of traditional PCs to look like this:
As I said, this would clash horribly with my office and would probably be impractical, but I'd like one of these. Quite the conversation piece.
Alas, I must revert to hard-nosed pragmatism and put the old camera and other interesting items on Ebay. Now that the government is bailing out Wall Street, I need all the money I can get to buy more:
McCain Gets BarackRoll'd
Saturday, September 13, 2008
I promise I will return to some substantive and original content once my husband returns from his trip to Minnesota, and I don't have to run after the kids 24/7. However, it is possible that you may be subjected to pictures of exotic things from the trip like colored leaves, hills, and possibly snowmen.
In the meantime, YouTube and random Twitter-following allow me to find amusing things like this:
McCain Gets BarackRoll'd
The Beer Post #1
Saturday, September 6, 2008
There may be more beer posts in the future. Tonight we dined at the sublime Icehouse. Aside from having great, cheap food, the restrooms were exceptionally clean. (Do I get a link now, Cowen?) Clean restrooms are almost more important to me than great food.
We like going to Hurricanes bar on Boca Chica because between the early '90s grunge music and Crown Royal banners, it is like a little taste of home. Not a lot of gringos there, but it's sort of like being back in Milwaukee in '96 during my law school years. Now we just need a cheap gyros place nearby. I must say that the Baila Con Bud Light dancers there are quite entertaining. McHale, you should check it out, quite a few babes there. You could get some good pix.
I tried to do some Dance Revolution thing with one of the Bud Light dancers, but the result was quite pathetic. See bad picture above. I wanted to do a post asking about the 3 puzzles in our Lone Star beer bottlecaps that we could not decipher (trust me, they were hard), but apparently my new fancypants Blackberry phone is not up to this photographic task. So this lame picture of me is all you get.
End beer post #1.
Diversion - Honest Introspection from Larry David
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
(Slightly NSFW; one bad word.)
For some reason, I've been unable to focus on anything even semi-serious today. So here's a clip for any Curb Your Enthusiasm fans out there, or really anyone who is even slightly neurotic.
Tomorrow's topic: Important Constitutional law-talkin' stuff, or, if I feel like it, a critical review of tonight's episode of Project Runway.
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