It's hot.

posted 8 months ago

Summer is here and it is hot. Yes, hot hot hot!

“ Goodbye for now and good luck………. You’re going to need it.

• Awesome financial commentary I saw on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GukmDO89KI)

anyone have a barometer?

posted 9 months ago

I notice a lot of cheerleaders really pumping the economy lately. I may rant about the feedback loop between the market and and consumer confidence later. In the meantime, I look around and can’t help but notice things haven’t changed. Cheerleaders in the MSM aren’t noted for their consistency or willingness to connect dots from day to day, much less week to week.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the case for the producers of doom pr0n as well. Every day there is the “counter-point” to whatever CNBC is hyping, but no real consistent thread or message.

All this makes me wonder if there’s any place that lays out a thesis for the US and world wide economic outlook, does so in simple terms and provides consistent metrics. I don’t mind seening commentary all around it, but I want to see the measurement day by day, week by week.

I guess I’m asking for a little scientific rigor. Perhaps I need to quit complaining and come up with said thesis and metrics!

cheers.

Well, I suppose this can be crossed off my bucket list.

What is it? Well, I don’t have a name for it… perhaps a description will do:

1. One Krispy Kreme donut

2. One 5-Guys single bacon cheeseburger, no bun

3. Another Krispy Kreme donut.

How was it? Not bad at all! Don’t get me wrong, I won’t be repeating it. Here’s the breakdown:

2 x Donuts: 400 Calories

1 x Patty: 280 Calories

1 x Cheese: 70 Calories

2 x Bacon: 80 Calories

TOTAL: 830 Calories ( I didn’t eat fries or a sugar drink )

cheers.

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

posted 9 months ago

Yep, that’s a new word i learned tonight. I say new word, as it’s both new to me and evidently young etymologically.

Denotation:

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable)

The fear of long words, ironically. It is literally the hippopotamus- and monster-related fear of very long words.
Ben is a sufferer of a mild form of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Etymology

From hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, an extension of sesquipedalian with monstrum “monster” and a truncated, misspelled form of hippopotamus, intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared; combined with phobia.