January 2011

Moments of Fame

January 31, 2011

Funny goes international for the first time at the Canadian Finance Carnival with Ten Ways to Deal with Bag Lady Syndrome. I’ve enjoyed the host site, Canadian Finance Blog, whose proprietor, Tom Drake, is a good writer himself and also shares space with quite a few guest bloggers. The Canadian Finance Carnival is quite a [...]

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Coupons for Sale or Rent…

January 31, 2011

Did you know you can sell coupons—the kind of stuff that comes in junkmail—at online sites? Saturday’s PlayNooz reported on a New York postal carrier who was arrested for the sale of coupons he’d ripped off from residents’ mailboxes and peddled on eBay. A commenter observed that some coupons, such as the ones that come [...]

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Busy Weekend Roundup

January 30, 2011

Jack the Handyman, literally a Jack of All Trades, came over yesterday to lighten my bank account considerably. Lordy! Three hundred and fifty dollah to repair a foundation crack aggravated by some previous owner’s half-baked DIY patch job and ingress by water, to sand and paint an exterior door that Satan had bought with a [...]

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Egypt

January 29, 2011

Live coverage of the scene on the ground in Egypt: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

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Life in Academe, 2011

January 29, 2011

and and and LOL! Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be academics.

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The Incredible Lightness of Our Economy…

January 27, 2011

Yesterday SDXB and I hiked to the top of a hill in a desert preserve park on the west side of town. In the fine, clear weather, we could see for miles in all directions. And what could we see? Sprawl. Mile on mile on mile on mile of sprawl, most of it cheaply built [...]

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