From the mouths of babes... Oy.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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.
Barb - Oct 10, 2008 4:05:08 pm PDT #4038 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
billytea - Oct 10, 2008 4:06:44 pm PDT #4039 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Nah, the economic news has got oil speculators thinking demand will drop steeply. I have confidence that OPEC at some point will cut production to stop the free fall.
An interesting consequence: Crude oil is the largest single component in your basic commodities index. Not so surprising. So when the price of oil drops, commodities indices will also fall. Now, the Aussie dollar is IIRC the fourth-most traded currency in the world. That's way above what you'd expect from the size of our economy; people trading in Aussie dollars aren't just buying Aussie products. It's a speculative currency, is the thing. Investors view it as a play in the commodities market - because our exports are dominated by commodities. We have a lot of coal, a lot of different kinds of metals, even some gold, and we dig it up and ship it out; so our currency gets affected by commodities prices.
What we don't export is oil. We have some oil fields, but they're a lot smaller than our own demand. Nonetheless, the price of oil is dropping, and so the commodities index is dropping. And so the Aussie dollar is also dropping. We're down to US$0.654 now. Apparently the speculators haven't noticed that we don't export oil.
msbelle - Oct 10, 2008 4:08:17 pm PDT #4040 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
He learned the word immature from the Captain Underpants books, the irony it burns.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2008 4:13:54 pm PDT #4041 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.
Ha ha ha! It's funny cuz it's true.
My current obsession is how to get to the airport on Wednesday. I want to be there by 5. So do I take a cab, which is expensive and could end up stuck in traffic, or do I take the train, which is kind of schlep and will take longer than a good-luck cab, but possibly less time than a bad-luck cab?
sarameg - Oct 10, 2008 4:34:39 pm PDT #4042 of 10001
Ahahaha! I just got your note today, msbelle (&mac!) I loved having you here. Farty McFarter.
Am trying to let go of the sheets. Took me months to decide on them. Bitter.
Have sleepy kitty. He's clucking in his sleep. I think being stoned last night is catching up with him. Devi only got stalkery for a short period tonight. Maybe shutting her in the bedroom when I'm gone is a good thing. (I had just been shutting Loki in ther.)
I want to go to her [link] guesthouse. In another lifetime, I thought I'd be her, without the shopping and blog.
Cashmere - Oct 10, 2008 4:41:17 pm PDT #4043 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Just got called for another political poll.
I'm seeing more positive Obama tv ads than negative McCain.
sara, I hope you can get a refund from your credit card company and eventually get the sheets.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2008 4:42:20 pm PDT #4044 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, ita, I hope you shut off GA after the first five minutes. That's all I've seen so far, but I can only imagine.
sarameg - Oct 10, 2008 4:48:09 pm PDT #4045 of 10001
Strix - Oct 10, 2008 4:52:07 pm PDT #4046 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I don't watch GA, but all the ita warning have had me imagining that it features naked wrestling in egg salad.
(I quickly realized it probably features some truly heinous migraine plot, but the ita-egg-horror reaction is so much more amusing to me.)
Jessica - Oct 10, 2008 4:54:09 pm PDT #4047 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If it's JFK, I recommend the LIRR to the Airtrain at Jamaica. Not quite as cheap as the subway, but still much less than a cab and so fast.