August, 2016 archive
The Fee Hand of the Market (Update) 0
Monopoly: it’s not just a game; it’s a business plan.
Addendum, Later that Same Day:
At The Guardian, Liz Richardson Voyles writes of living with her daughter’s food allergies, which necessitates having EpiPens in the ready. A snippet:
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
Filings have been below 300,000 for 77 straight weeks, the longest stretch since 1970. That is typically consistent with an improving job market.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 30,000 to 2.145 million in the week ended Aug. 13, below the Bloomberg survey median forecast. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.6 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Plus Ca Change 0
At the Boston Review, Andrea Mammone sees the British Brexit vote and similar expressions of a national turning inward in other Western countries as not unprecedented. He traces part of their lineage. Here’s a bit:
Geeking Out, Bit Bucket Dept. 0
/dev/null is your friend.
This screenshot captures part of my .procmailrc file showing how I send spam and other unwanted email to the bit bucket. The .procmailrc file is in the right pane of the Terminator window; the left pane is my Mutt inbox. (The music player is qmmp, currently streaming KCEA.)
All the “From” addresses listed in the right pane go to /dev/null, and that’s a small portion of those so designated. Since I refined my .procmailrc file to filter the junk before it lands in Maildir, Mutt has been ever so much more responsive.
Peeking out from the back is Ktorrent, which is seeding downloads for the recently-released Slackware 14.2 so as to take some of the load off other Slackware mirrors.
The window manager is, natch, Fluxbox.
Oh, yeah. You can’t do this on Windows.
Look! It’s Aurora Borealis Briggs and Stratton!
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Whoops.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary alert was withdrawn just four hours later when it was discovered that a groundskeeper driving a sit-on lawnmower had disturbed the readings of a local magnetometer.
Craven Images 0
Dick Polman calls out the hypocrisy of Republicans who are against the evul Fed’rul guvmint except when they aren’t, that is, when they want its (that is, our) money.
This is an old behavioral pattern, freshened anew by the latest infusion of hypocrisy. It’s always amazing how Republicans’ ideological hatred of “big government,” their abstract nanny-state boilerplate, gets trashed in a flash when real life floods in.
That’s just the beginning. Follow the link–it gets better.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Entertain your guests politely.
He was visiting someone at the home. No adults were present, but another boy was there.
Digestive Dissonance 0
Who would have possibly guessed that “McDonald’s” and “fitness” don’t mix well?
Special Drinking Liberally Celebrate the End of Summer Brunch 0
Patricia has organized a Sunday brunch for us with special guest Nicole Carry, Norfolk City Council Member. Join us there:
When: 12:30 p, m., Sunday, August 28.
Where:
The Tasting Room
Mermaid Winery
330 W. 22nd Street
Norfolk, VA (map)
Please RSVP on Meetup or Facebook.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Thom looks at the coverage of the Presidential campaign in the era of our “Duck Dynasty” and “Naked and Afraid” media and is less than sanguine.
