the next generation
sulzbergers earning his wings in providence.
finally an uplifting show about a
mormon family. nope, nothing salacious going on here, just good clean living.
beers in aluminum cans, ehhh.. beers in aluminum bottles,
hmmmm?
"How the Museum of Modern Art Sold its Soul"
cover story of The New Republic, article by Jed Perl.
I have low hopes for
V for Vendetta, since Alan Moore comic adaptations to film haven't been good so far, and he's disowned this one. The Wachowsis have some balls, though--this is about a terrorist blowing up buildings in a near-futuristic but Thatcher-like England. It's a really unsettling comic.
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Index of animated GIFs demonstrating math concepts.
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rind wednesday at 8 pm on fam (dave liked it)
I know I'm a little further out than most people on this one, but I am getting really worried about Monday. News out of Kuwait on Friday basically made
5% of the world oil resources disappear (what? you didn't hear this in the U.S. media?):
OPEC producer Kuwait's oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
"PIW learns from sources that Kuwait's actual oil reserves, which are officially stated at around 99 billion barrels, or close to 10 percent of the global total, are a good deal lower, according to internal Kuwaiti records," the weekly PIW reported on Friday.
Combine that with
spreading infrastructure attacks, plus the mess over Iran, and I really think the market drop on Friday wasn't just because Google missed it's numbers! I think we are actually in serious trouble.
When the other shoe drops, and Saudi Arabia is forced to admit that it too (like everyone else) has seriously overstated how much oil they have in the ground, there really won't be anywhere to run (financially speaking.) The reason these reserves are all over stated is because the daily limit OPEC allows its' members to pump out of the ground is a fraction of total reserves. So the higher your stated reserves, the more you can pump each day, and therefore the more money you make. At least until it all dries up way before people expected.
Just some happy thoughts for Sunday morning.
Ideas In Food: Improvisation and experimentation in the kitchen by Chefs Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot