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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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MadImmortalMan

"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

AnchorClanker

(Early) Christmas prezzies from the girlfriend -

Box set of Blackadder
Book on Ignorance
Grey Shirt
Nice pint of ale

:bowler:
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

lustindarkness

So if I drive my car at the speed of light and turn on my headlights, do they shine at all?
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Monoriu

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 22, 2009, 03:15:36 PM


Or it could be that Bill knew what was going to happen and left the blame to someone else  :menace:

Josephus

Got this really strange Christmas card at work. It's Russian and has a graveyard on the front.


On the back it says:

"Between 1917 and 1991, 20 million men, women and children were murdered by the Soviet secret police known variously as Cheka, NKVD, SMERSH and KGB. Some perpertrators and enablers of Communist war crimes and crimes against humanity are in Canada.

They shouldn't be.

Merry Christmas and Peace to Men of Goodwill. (veterans of the Communist Secret Police not include)"


Lovely.


Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Monoriu on December 22, 2009, 08:29:19 PM
Or it could be that Bill knew what was going to happen and left the blame to someone else  :menace:

I think the entire market has been in a bit of a holding pattern since early 2000.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Brazen

Having battled the elements and public trasport that can't cope with them (including an epic three-hour commute the other day) work has asked me to make up the hours I missed in the new year... : bleeding:

Josquius

Londoners have no right to bitch about public transport. NO RIGHT.
But yeah.
The weather has past novel and is becoming an annoyance.
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The Larch


Grey Fox

Of course, it's by the guild. Their entire sitcom is dedicated to WoW.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Syt

Quote from: Grey Fox on December 23, 2009, 11:45:39 AM
Of course, it's by the guild. Their entire sitcom is dedicated to WoW.

The redhead chick plays the nymphomaniac perv fairy in Legend of Neil :perv:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Barrister

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 23, 2009, 09:55:29 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on December 22, 2009, 08:29:19 PM
Or it could be that Bill knew what was going to happen and left the blame to someone else  :menace:

I think the entire market has been in a bit of a holding pattern since early 2000.

Check out the stock price on AAPL during the same time period. :whistle:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

The Larch

Quote from: Syt on December 23, 2009, 12:23:21 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on December 23, 2009, 11:45:39 AM
Of course, it's by the guild. Their entire sitcom is dedicated to WoW.

The redhead chick plays the nymphomaniac perv fairy in Legend of Neil :perv:

She's also in Dr. Horrible's sing along blog, the awesome Josh Whedon musical with a superheroes and villains setting.  ;)

Syt

Quote from: The Larch on December 23, 2009, 02:14:56 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 23, 2009, 12:23:21 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on December 23, 2009, 11:45:39 AM
Of course, it's by the guild. Their entire sitcom is dedicated to WoW.

The redhead chick plays the nymphomaniac perv fairy in Legend of Neil :perv:

She's also in Dr. Horrible's sing along blog, the awesome Josh Whedon musical with a superheroes and villains setting.  ;)

:yes:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Savonarola

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers just notified me that I qualify for a free e-book for renewing early.  The choices:

Engineering the Art of Negotiation Part 2: How to Handle Your Colleagues
Survivor Planning: What Every Spouse Should Know
Communicating with Congress: How to Build A Relationship with Your Elected Officials

What fun, it almost makes me want to run out and pick up a Kindle just so I can read one of these fine works.  I think I'll go with number 3, maybe Congressmen Levin will invite me over for Kosher wine and cheese. 
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock