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Tara ,'Storyteller'


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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.


Jesse - Oct 07, 2008 8:09:01 am PDT #3007 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Shir, I haven't used it myself, but I really like the looks of this vegan loaf creator, which includes breadcrumbs.... [link]


lisah - Oct 07, 2008 8:13:07 am PDT #3008 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Magical Loaf Creator!

hahaha


Shir - Oct 07, 2008 8:13:23 am PDT #3009 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Oh! Thanks Jesse!


tommyrot - Oct 07, 2008 8:14:53 am PDT #3010 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Another article on this economic mess: How did it all happen?

As I write this, the dow is down 430 points, below 10,000 for the first time in four years. Tyler Cowen has published his list of what went wrong, with which I largely concur. Another way to think about it is as a series of cognitive errors that afflicted everyone: investors, home buyers, lenders, regulators. They're standard cognitive errors that so far, no one has a very good way of eradicating:

The list is pretty interesting....

Optimistic bias: People tend to be overconfident about their own abilities and the outcome of their plans. Something like 90% of people think that they are above average drivers less likely to get into an accident than the average joe. This is so pervasive that there is actually a scientific name for the few people who accurately assess their own future, their abilities, and what other people think of them: clinically depressed.

Heh. A while back there was a study that suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of the probabilities of success and failure in any given venture, but recently there's been some doubt cast upon that result....


Jesse - Oct 07, 2008 8:19:54 am PDT #3011 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Magical Loaf Creator!

hahaha

Right?? I am neither a vegan nor do I pack a lunch, but I had a big phase of being obsessed with Vegan Lunchbox.


Barb - Oct 07, 2008 8:20:17 am PDT #3012 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

But the whole first third of the movie is showing how decadent the Havana nightlife was before the revolution, so it's all these super swank and gorgeous nightclub scenes, with singers and big bouffants and form fitting dresses and poolside fun.

Definitely filed and noted. I just looked on amazon and they have this amazing deluxe package that looks like an old fashioned cigar box.

The magpie in me loves the Ooh! Shiny! factor of it.


Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2008 8:28:38 am PDT #3013 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I think McCardle misses the main point, deregulation and lack of new regulation, along with regulators biased against enforcing existing rules.


bon bon - Oct 07, 2008 8:28:39 am PDT #3014 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I am really glad I don't have a job I am worried about losing, but I really want to be litigating right now! Banks failing everywhere! Commercial paper on This American Life, for goodness' sake! Citi suing Wells! My old boss administering the largest bankruptcy in history! GAH!


Shir - Oct 07, 2008 8:28:51 am PDT #3015 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Lunchbox

Speaking of which: I want and need one for university (if this year will start. They're threatening another strike. God, I just wanna study, you know?), now that I have 3 hellish long days every semester.

Problem: it's Israel. We don't have lunchboxes here.

Any recommendations for a site to order from? I want a mean, cute, making-me-smile-and-want-to-put-food-in-it lunchbox. Or you know, just a gorgeous one.


Barb - Oct 07, 2008 8:36:09 am PDT #3016 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

Very Nice UPS Man just delivered my package from Lulu.com containing one bee-yoo-ti-ful Buffistas Cookbook.

Nom nom nom