any bets on hitting or beating the 777 drop from last week?
Only 66 more points to go. I can't say I'd bet against it.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Oct 06, 2008 9:46:12 am PDT #2816 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Oct 06, 2008 9:46:47 am PDT #2817 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2008 9:47:09 am PDT #2818 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
So, I wonder if the Dow will close under 9000 tomorrow.
DavidS - Oct 06, 2008 9:50:41 am PDT #2819 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A lot of international markets are taking huge hits.
I think by next week all the banks in the world will be owned by mainland China.
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2008 9:52:45 am PDT #2820 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I suspect the big selloff today is because of the European bank failures. I think the euro is also dropping like a rock, at least against the dollar.
Toddson - Oct 06, 2008 9:59:35 am PDT #2821 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A co-worker and I once - at the end of a long hard day - sat down and read the instructions that came with the spare mouse balls. About how many mouse balls were in the package. The the mouse was only supposed to have one ball. And how to replace a mouse ball.
Hilarity - or possibly hysteria - ensued.
DavidS - Oct 06, 2008 10:00:43 am PDT #2822 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The NYTimes is featuring Live Blogging Amid Panic -- which strikes me as a little too close to The Financial Apocalypse Watch and Post.
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2008 10:08:46 am PDT #2823 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
A co-worker and I once - at the end of a long hard day - sat down and read the instructions that came with the spare mouse balls. About how many mouse balls were in the package. The the mouse was only supposed to have one ball. And how to replace a mouse ball.
Mice today just don't have the balls their ancestors had.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2008 10:12:44 am PDT #2824 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Mice today just don't have the balls their ancestors had.
My mouse doesn't even have any balls. Which probably explains the shiny red light.
DavidS - Oct 06, 2008 10:14:20 am PDT #2825 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Nabbed from a Guardian UK comment. Garrison Keillor on the financial situation:
"Confident men took leave of common sense and bet on the idea of perpetual profit in the real estate market and crashed. But it wasn't their money. It was your money they were messing with. And that's why you need government regulators. Gimlet-eyed men with steel-rim glasses and crepe-soled shoes who check the numbers and have the power to say, "This is a scam and a hustle and either you cease and desist or you spend a few years in a minimum-security federal facility playing backgammon."
The Republican Party used to specialize in gimlet-eyed, steel-rim, crepe-soled common sense and then it was taken over by crooked preachers who demand we trust them because they're packing a Bible and God sent them on a mission to enact lower taxes, less government. Except when things crash, and then government has to pick up the pieces."