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danish navy on the hunt

2009-06-16T19:37:00.001-07:00

this is interesting bit about the danish navy:
http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Web-Articles/Danish-Navy/

path to recovery?

2009-06-13T11:30:00.000-07:00

the anti stimulus package is maybe the way to go:
freeganism

here we go...

2009-06-10T18:34:00.000-07:00

get ready for some serious inflation...thank goodness!.... see wall st journal article here.

unbroke

2009-05-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

Un-Broke: The Seth Green Cribs Edition - watch more funny videos

2009-05-27T18:19:00.001-07:00

inflation is still the key to our survival...

great article

2009-05-16T10:22:00.000-07:00

This is a great article about the dangers of desire and unlimited resources. And ultimately, why the ponzi scheme that is our economy is going to fail us...

idler

2009-03-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

this is it: http://idler.co.uk/about/

junk book

2009-03-22T15:47:00.000-07:00

I played around on FaceBook for a bit...until i realized...IT's CRAP!

I realized the facebook is to social interaction what mcdonald's is to food...junk with no value...

A friend told me that the world's intellect is finite, it's population, however, is infinite...or something like that...i feel facebook is showing us the growing population...with very little depth.

nails it

2009-03-21T15:14:00.001-07:00

I think this post has it nailed.....

spend 'em if you got 'em

2009-02-22T14:14:00.000-08:00

"the dollar crisis" by richard duncan is pretty good. Although written in 2003 with updates in 2005, he seems to hit the mark on quite a few things...my take from the book is this...

the dollar is doomed, if you're rich in dollars, you ain't gonna be rich no more
if you got dollars, you may as well have some fun and spend your paper money. and at least you'll have some fun.

it seems there are always extreme (even not so extreme) situations which reset the monopoly board of life. this may be one of them...that cause people that thought they were rich to...well...not be so rich...

i think real richness in the 'next economic life' will come down to having family and friends to enjoy a nice game of 'monopoly', or my favorite the game of 'life'.

a rebuttal to igor

2009-01-05T09:31:00.001-08:00

Here's a good response to the Russian Professors predition on US disintegration.

oh boy!

2009-01-03T00:34:00.000-08:00

Have you heard of this? Russian professor predicts collapse of US.

throwing shoes at zombies...

2008-12-16T17:09:00.000-08:00

in writing to a friend about the latest fed action...it came up that...it's like using up all the ammo in the gun and then throwing your shoe at the zombies as they crash through the door...unless your shoe is made of gold...i'd say, "leave it on your foot and run!"

body swap

2008-12-02T20:21:00.000-08:00

body swapping isn't just for the movies anymore...this experiment(although very simple) is cool and shows me how our reality can be far different from the real: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202527.html

joan

2008-11-29T13:03:00.001-08:00

try having a conversation with joan...it's strangely compelling....even if joan is a bit wierd.

thank goodness

2008-11-04T21:08:00.001-08:00

now....we can all breathe a sigh of relief...maybe we had to go through 8 years of stupidity to the point of insanity to get to here...

now if only prop 8 gets turned on its head...

too absurd to be real...

2008-10-05T13:29:00.000-07:00

Reality has reached such a level of absurdity on so many issues i dont' know where to begin. It seems the United States of America has dug itself quite a hole. My favorite expression is, "when you're in a hole...stop digging."

I don't think there was a definite begining to the whole we're inn, but there were definite indicators that we were moving in the wrong direction.

I think one of those was when Janet Jackson had her wardrobe malfunction...seems small, but it represented the aburdity of where our country was heading...and, unfortunately, still heading...cheap and banal entertainment....too much glitz...a 'glitz bomb' if you will...

If there was ever a wake up call, it's that Palin is actually runnning for Vice President of the USA. If this scares you, think about what it says to the rest of the world. Man...how did we get here?

We've blurred the lines between reality entertainment (reality TV) and where reality is real...

"Sssssshhhhhh...I don't want to miss this...the good part's coming up..."

could this be a bigger joke?

2008-10-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

Paulson is hiring money managers to dole out the $700,000,000,000...

Paulson is quoted as saying, "Did I tell you I'd deliever the biggest, #$@#^@# payday you wall street scum would ever see or what? Now PAY up MOTHER @!#$%@#!!"

let the last bubble begin

2008-09-22T20:21:00.000-07:00

and now cramer is plugging gold...so this is the begginning of the end for bubbles...once average system joe is scrambling for gold we'll see the last bubble in this bubble triology...a bubbliology...here's cramer on gold...

seed balls

2008-09-21T21:22:00.000-07:00

this is cool...from ran's site. a clandestine way to plant seeds...seed balls of course, who knew:

http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2007/03/how-to-make-seedballs/

a definition is nigh

2008-09-21T07:26:00.000-07:00

okay, "nigh" means "near"...in case you were wondering or never knew...or just didn't care but read this blog anyhow....

so it seems the US government is going to save us all from the bad investments of the few and/or the stupid or both.

What's going to happen?

If you own a home, it seems your house value will be supported and propped up. This also helps the govt by soaking up all those dollars out there...this is a case of "dollars dollars everywhere and not a penny to lend...". The world is awash in us dollars but everyone is clinging to them because of fear.
the next phase of fear will kick in and people will start scrambling to dump their dollars for gold. that's where this bubble leads next...'the bubble to end all bubbles' will be a bubble in gold prices. as investors, small and large, realize the us government is destroying the value of the dollar and in no way can every make good on their debts, there will be a flight to gold...thus driving up prices...
housing prices will continue to skyrocket, but this time, not because people think they will get rich, but only because the dollar is plummeting. if you have a 30 year fixed mortgage, you'll be able to pay the house off in full with a few tokens of gold...
the US will recover, but it will be about 5 to 10 years of recovery. the 'old-new value based economy' will be based on a gold standard again. this time leveraged with the efficiency of the Internet. think gold, PayPal and carbon credits (a whole new market will emerage) all combined...
the plus of all of this lowering of the American quality of life is...the US will once again be a good value for manufacturing versus other places in the world. the US will be able to compete with China on labor costs and good manufacturing jobs will start returning to US shores. while Google is cool, it just doesn't doesn't generate jobs the way manufacturing wire hangers does...

long term, this is good for the average Joe. this is the point at which the overworked leader (the US) realizes they are past their prime, need help and hand the reins to somebody else...rejoice America, our time is up...maybe now you'll be able to take some of that vacation time...you'll probably stay local on a 'stay-cation' and watch maybe the most exciting thing you've ever seen on your world-wide jaunts...a community developing right around you...

the end is nigh...

2008-09-17T20:01:00.000-07:00

I always thought the guys walking around with "the end is nigh" were nuts...(what does 'nigh' even mean?) but guess what folks?

The End is NIGH...

With what is happening in the US Economy and how the US has bungled the management of the world's reserve currency, the end is near for the US dollar as the world reserve currency. How can the rest of the world ever trust the US government again?

So what does this mean for you and me and the average joe six pack?

There is the debate if the end will come in deflationary terms or inflationary..."for twenty points, i'm going to go with inflationary bob..."

Yes, Joe will be paying 20 dollars for his six pack (that's twenty bucks for a six pack of bud...the american...er...belgian beer)

Yes, interest rates are going to skyrocket...

Lock in interest rates now...

Chinese banks buying morgan stanley...

This whole situation is such a joke...who could believe...

more later...what fun!

dollar daze over

2008-09-15T19:41:00.000-07:00

the fear we are experiencing now in the financial markets is the fear of not knowing how bad things will get.

I'm thinking this is the end of the dollar. After this calamity...after this display of ineptitude of the highest magnitude on the heals of a flawless display of chinese teamwork at the olympics, who is going to have faith in the dollar as the world's reserve currency ever again? The sun is setting on the dollar...just too bad sunset are suppose to be beautiful..this is just pathetic.

thing is, no where is safe. the harder other economies fall, the more swiftly they will move away from a dollar based world economy. the days of the single world currency are over...

settle in folks...the storm is just getting started...let's look to floridians for motivation...they have some experience with weathering storms...

personal transportation

2008-09-14T13:23:00.000-07:00

I'm going to get a folding bike...the bromptons are really nice folding bikes. There is a lot of informaton in the blogosphere regarding all the different types of folding bikes.

I want the freedom to take my bike everywhere, the brompton is small enough when folded to allow me that.

They are really well made.

The are really not cheap...ouch...but much cheaper than a car.

political action garden

2008-08-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

bascially, no matter what you do for a living, you are a politician...

I'm in a community garden and i was talking to a woman in the garden today. She was telling me about some of the previous projects at the garden. She said, "oh yeah, blah blah blah was going to do this, that and the other thing. But he ended up quiting the garden."

She went on...

"Oh, that was going to be done by Mr. X, but he left the garden..."

And the thing is, it's a really cool garden. With cool people.

I think it's just that anything, no matter how cool something is, there's always a political component to it.

At work you deal with it. Put up with it. Complain about it. But you stay, because you have to. Because of a thing called a paycheck...

So anyway, no matter what you do...your a politician. Only without the perks...go figure...