Lord Of The Onion Rings

This is the first CSA that has drop offs within 45 minutes of me! The car culture is so prevalent here that you had to go to the farm or the suburbs.

I wish there was a way people could pay for this with their food-stamp benefit and they could have a drop off down-town. I wonder if people would use it? They accept them at the farmers market, but it would be a huge time saver.

Sophia, I'm going through that book like a hot knife through butter. It's fascinating.

Isaiah Mustafa from the Old Spice ads is on Ellen today! (Edit: OMG, he's adorable and hilarious. And a former professional football player.) Also Ed Helms, who I just like more and more.

Quants, as I understand the term having read the awesome IOU: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, are super smart mathy folks who were sought out by the financial industry to come up with equations that justified every action they took that defied common sense.

So it's like the mathy equivalent of squints on Bones?

super smart mathy folks who were sought out by the financial industry to come up with equations that justified every action they took that defied common sense.

To be fair, I think their actions made sense as long as a whole bunch of financial stuff didn't go South all at once. Yeah, in retrospect that was an obvious flaw, but people were like, "Housing prices have not fallen in many decades, so let's just not worry about that happening."

So, my class was going to watch I Have a Dream today, but my DVD decided to stop working. And, I can't access YouTube at school. I'll have to download it at home tonight and we'll watch it tomorrow.

To be fair, I think their actions made sense as long as a whole bunch of financial stuff didn't go South all at once. Yeah, in retrospect that was an obvious flaw, but people were like, "Housing prices have not fallen in many decades, so let's just not worry about that happening."

They assigned risk factors that were insanely low in order to keep risky ventures going. Like, 1 in many billion odds. I mean, that was their jobs and what the bankers paid them to do.

The thing was, there was a culture of total infallibility, and the numbers were there to back it up, which was unsustainable from any other common sense perspective.

They assigned risk factors that were insanely low in order to keep risky ventures going. Like, 1 in many billion odds. I mean, that was their jobs and what the bankers paid them to do.

Yeah, that's true.

I read somewhere about the ratings agencies that assigned triple-A ratings to these investments - one of the ratings agencies did not even have the ability to test for the possibility of housing prices going down. I mean, their computer models would not even accept negative numbers for "housing price increases."

For the SoCal folks - how funny is it that my Groupon today in Michigan is for Isgo Lepejian?