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Monthly Archives: August 2007

A troll for all seasons

Monday, August 6, 2007

Matt Sanchez is up to his dirty tricks again, but unwittingly sullies the name of his right-wing associates. First, The Weekly Standard reports that The New Republic’s Milblogger Scott Thomas Beauchamp (identity now revealed) dispatches were fabricated. After raising a such a big stink, it turns out that TNR’s source was none other than our […]

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Fun with Mortgages

Friday, August 3, 2007

The Big Picture (great blog) sums up the story of the subprime meltdown very nicely in this post. Check out the nice graphs of Q2 delinquency rates and where they are occurring. All told, it had a troubling (though deserved) effect on investment bank share prices and market caps.

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Moleskines

Friday, August 3, 2007

After many years of loyalty to Clairefontaine notebooks, I’ve switched (some may say I’ve seen the light) to Moleskines. I still really the Clairefontaines, especially the feel of and quality of the paper, and I will still use the large hard-covered notebooks, but convenience has won out. I really like the features: the hard cover […]

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Ad Revenue

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Thanks to Google Adsense, this site may soon pay for itself, which would certainly be a great thing. I’m far from being able to retire on the income though. It seems it takes a lot of effort to make any dependable amount of money, beyond a few clicks here and there, it just feels a […]

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Central Park Fountain

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The Central Park Resevoir Fountain was operational again as of yesterday. It shoots water 60 feet into the air, quite pretty to watch.

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