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  Eating on a dollar a day

  11.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From B comes this gen in the NYT: Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons:

  This fall a couple in Encinitas, Calif., conducted their own experiment to find out what it was like to live for a month on just a dollar a day for food. Overnight, their diets changed significantly. The budget forced them to [...]

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  “This sucker could go down”

  10.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From Jeff Matthews is not making this up:

  FDR: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
  Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches.”
  GWB: “This sucker could go down.”

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  FiveThirtyEight.com

  09.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Am I the last one to discover FiveThirtyEight.com? Lots of great election data and analysis like this on strange betting patterns at Intrade.

• finance, personal

  Ballard real estate

  09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I learned today from my new favorite blog myballard.com that our zip code is the eight fastest selling in the country, with an average time on the market of 86 days. Looking at the list Ballard has done pretty well in comparison to many higher up on the list, like Plano, Tex. (#4) where prices [...]

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  IMG00062.jpg

  09.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  IMG00062.jpg

  Originally uploaded by smooth.

  Thank you racoons, for ruining my only remaining pumpkin and not even EATING the fu*king thing.

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  5 things the US still kicks ass at

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So yeah, maybe our entire financial system is melting down (thanks wall street), we’ve f’d up the environment to the point of no return, and our war mongering has pissed off the entire rest of the world. And this week I’ve discovered that China even has some really bad ass female beach volleyball players.
  It’s times [...]

• environment, personal

  Global Warming: Don’t worry, Chrysler is on the case

  05.28.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As if I needed another reason not to buy an American car, the inside cover of this week’s Business Week includes this gem of an ad from Chrysler:

  We live in a car culture. Don’t apologize. Without our cars, we lose a measurable source of freedom, individuality and, yes, happiness.
  That’s why we consider it our obligation [...]

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  Dwight Schrute presenting The National

  05.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dwight Schrute presenting The National

  Originally uploaded by smooth.

  Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

• personal, reviews

  Caught a friend on Cash Cab

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  We don’t let Niko watch a lot of tv, but his two favorite shows are Cash Cab and Deadliest Catch. Today we turned on Cash Cab just in time to see a friend of ours from b-school (w/ three other ppl) miss the last strike and get booted out of the cab with nothing.
  Apparently those [...]

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  Do you tip for takeout

  04.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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