the art of writing is discovering what you believe
Buckley discovers the virtues of regulation and calls for government intervention to help fix the mortgage crisis.
If conservative principles are abandoned so easily in the face of a bad economic situation, what was the whole thing about in the first place?
Signs of the Apocalypse
Via Elizabeth Warren: William F. Buckley discovers the virtues of regulation and calls for government intervention to help fix the mortgage crisis.
If conservative principles are abandoned so easily in the face of a bad economic situation, what was the whole thing about in the first place?
[From Signs of the Apocalypse – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog]
The comments are spot on, as well.
Apple has offered a free track (or three) of the week for a while now, though they do a lot more TV shows and shorts.
…Whoever is running the music store at Amazon must know that: they send an email bright and early, letting me know what the bonus track is and what else is new for the week./p> Competition is a good thing.
It’s New Music Tuesday, the traditional day of the week for new releases. Apple has offered a free track (or three) of the week for a while now, though they do a lot more TV shows and shorts. But they update pretty late in the day, sometimes not til the next day or close to it.
Whoever is running the music store at Amazon must know that: they send an email bright and early, letting me know what the bonus track is and what else is new for the week.
Competition is a good thing.
The dimensions preclude a lot of stuff, like an optical drive, and the AIR naming suggested it would be wireless first and foremost. I assume it can be on a wired network, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that requires a USB add-on.
Once the name and form factor were revealed (leaked?) last night, I started to think this might be the result.
802.11n networking, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Built to be a wireless machine.
No internal optical drive. $99 accessory optical drive.
10:20am:
What do we do with optical drives? Movies, software, backups, and burn cds?
We can now install software wirelessly.
New feature — remote disc. It will show you macs or PCs in your vicinity. You can pick one of those machines, and borrow it’s optical drive. You can then see what’s in their optical drive. PCs can read mac installers. Use it just like a local optical drive.
We also didn’t want to compromise battery. 5 hours claimed life.[From Liveblogging the 2008 Macworld Steve Jobs Keynote | Gadget Lab from Wired.com]
The dimensions preclude a lot of stuff, like an optical drive, and the AIR naming suggested it would be wireless first and foremost. I assume it can be on a wired network, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that requires a USB add-on. I like the idea of leveraging a networked optical drive: I don’t use mine that often. Why pay for it in the purchase price or the weight/size?
My guess is they’ll sell out of these pretty quickly 😉
[Michael] Pollan has a set of simple rules for eating that really resonate: “Shop the edges of the grocery store, not the middle,” “Eat things your great grandmother might have eaten,” “Eat nothing that bears a health or nutritional claim,” and so on. [From In Defense of Food: NPR interview with Michael Pollan about “Eat food. Not too much.
[Michael] Pollan has a set of simple rules for eating that really resonate: “Shop the edges of the grocery store, not the middle,” “Eat things your great grandmother might have eaten,” “Eat nothing that bears a health or nutritional claim,” and so on. [From In Defense of Food: NPR interview with Michael Pollan about “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”]
“aboveground mining”
I’d be more convinced if I saw the “About this Mac” dialog .
…See more trivia here: OS X running on a Dell Latitude and A Presario?
Hmm. This time tomorrow we’ll know for sure. I’d be more convinced if I saw the “About this Mac” dialog . . . . even if that can be faked just as easily.
See more trivia here: OS X running on a Dell Latitude and A Presario?
The value of a newspaper is not that it gives me information ; the value of a newspaper is how it selects information – what it puts in and what it leaves out.
…It used to be that editors and publishers had an idea why they were publishing a newspaper at all (Ralph McGill’s “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” is hard to top).
[W]hy are newspapers, for instance, having such a hard time? I think it’s because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what they do. The value of a newspaper is not that it gives me information; the value of a newspaper is how it selects information – what it puts in and what it leaves out. [From Hugh McGuire: Porn Knows What It’s For — Do You?]
It used to be that editors and publishers had an idea why they were publishing a newspaper at all (Ralph McGill’s “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” is hard to top). Now I’m not so sure. Is it because of the increase in corporate ownership, where a newspaper might be owned by some conglomerate with its own agenda?
The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until at least 2018.
Those comments from the minister, Abdul Qadir, were among the most specific public projections of a timeline for the American commitment in Iraq by officials in either Washington or Baghdad.
In 2018, my oldest will be 21, my youngest 20. Professor Black reminds me that they were 6 and 5 when the war started.
2018. Mark your calendars.
The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until at least 2018.
Those comments from the minister, Abdul Qadir, were among the most specific public projections of a timeline for the American commitment in Iraq by officials in either Washington or Baghdad. And they suggested a longer commitment than either government had previously indicated.
Pentagon officials expressed no surprise at Mr. Qadir’s projections, which were even less optimistic than those he made last year.
This means the surge worked, surely.
[From Send lawyers, guns and money — Dad, get me out of this]
And this isn’t like Vietnam how, again?
First of all, it’s worth learning what makes up 25 pounds of food in a packing box (12 x 12 x 24 or something like that: not as big as a file box)…. It looks like we’ll be doing this regularly: my young Girl Scout was the first to do it and she and her mom liked the experience to make it a family trip.
The four of us spent Sunday morning at a local food bank, sorting through food drive collections and packing boxes of variety goods for needy families. It was a learning experience, in many ways.
First of all, it’s worth learning what makes up 25 pounds of food in a packing box (12 x 12 x 24 or something like that: not as big as a file box). You learn what items you can use to “make weight” and what items you can add to tip the scale without overfilling the box. And you are always looking for some kind of nutritional balance.
Second, but perhaps more important, you learn what’s worth donating when you see a food donation box. A short list, based on yesterday’s exercise, would include peanut butter, tuna, canned soups and meals (Chef-boy-ardee, anyone?), mac and cheese, canned fruits, crackers, and pasta noodles. These are all pretty solid nutritionally and last a long time. What not to include? Ramen noodles: we had 7 cases of them in the first Gaylord we unpacked. Very little of it went to the intended recipients. It has a nutritional value near zero, and we threw away most of them, some of it in the cases it was shipped in. What a waste. (As it turns out, their suggested donations pretty closely mirror my list.)
Cereals are also good choices. For some reason, those were broken out into separate processes, as were bulk/institutional packages.
It looks like we’ll be doing this regularly: my young Girl Scout was the first to do it and she and her mom liked the experience to make it a family trip. For a dozen people to spend three hours and help feed 220 people is pretty good leverage.
