It's Wednesday here in Minneapolis.
It's Wednesday here in Minneapolis.
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This would be a baby winter in Michigan where I grew up. But the infrastructure here is just not built for it.
Almost. It's been the mildest winter ever.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
A little scary, as there is no snow, and a lot of our power is hyrdo.
It just keeps getting warmer and warmer here.
I had to mow my lawn this past weekend, and all of our trees and plants are blooming already. I usually don't have to mow my lawn until June. It never really died this year.
I was in St. Louis and KC today. Never got above 20 at either place. Ugh.
I sympathize for that Minnesota weather though. I'll be back in three weeks or so.
What was it, -20F or so windchill this morning?
Thirty days to spring!
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Yesterday at 5pm, I was in Puerto Vallarta, 85 degrees, sunny. Yesterday at 9pm, I was in Minneapolis, -20F windchill, dark. Nothing like dropping a 100 degrees in 4 hours. These four bottles of tequila I brought home with me are not going to last long.
Oh, and Scar, let me guess, Cookie chose your new avatar, right?
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Ah, Puerto Vallarta...where in 2000 I got my first tattoo, bought weed out of a bible, and had my credit card stolen. What a week!
No, he has his shirt on.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
So, the wedding was this weekend. I'm sure what I'm about to say is a "well, no shit Sherlock" type of comment, but...
...just a note to people who are going to be planning a wedding - be careful of the music you choose for the ceremony.
The groomsmen and I got our own processional, so I got to choose the music for that. I chose the 'Love Theme' from Cinema Paradiso. Appropo, right? Great piece of music from one of my favorite films and appropriate to the occasion. I was like "this is perfect!"
Unfortunately, I forgot to factor in how emotional the movie makes me, especially at the end. Factor the innate emotional heft of the occasion to the mix and I had trouble keeping it together long enough to make my way to the officiant.
It's something I never thought to even consider. Oops.
Congrats! And grooms who cry at their weddings are adorable. It's all good.
I dodged that bullet at my wedding. The song chosen for my first dance was an acoustic folk rendition of Super Freak.
(not that there was a bullet to dodge.)
Last edited by bac0n; 02-25-2015 at 07:00 PM.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
I know we've had things like this before on the site. Don't recall if this one made the rounds. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html
Holy crap @ size of the Mincraft world.
I don't want to see that Japanese crab, ever.
That is amazing.
That crab is something out of an old school monster movie.
I have a question about income inequality since it's a hot topic in the national conversation, and deservedly so. Everyone seems to agree that it's troubling and potentially dangerous for society. But is it inevitable? Here is a simple example:
Let's say Person A is ten times wealthier than Person B. They each make an investment in a large cap stock fund.
Person A invests $100,000
Person B invests $10,000
The value of the fund's shares go up 10% in a year, and both decide to sell.
Person A now has $110,000
Person B now has $11,000
Person A made $9,000 more than Person B, and as a result, their income disparity grew wider over the year.
Even if you tax Person A much more than Person B, Person A will still be net ahead, most likely.
Now, if Person B was really poor, living paycheck to paycheck, and had no discretionary money to invest, Person A would be even further ahead.
So how can income inequality be prevented? I realize this is a very dumbed-down example, so let me know if I'm missing anything here.
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When you first started talking about income equality I thought you were going to go down the gender income equality route.
But instead you're just talking about it across the board like there's even something to fix. Therefor I see no problem with the above example.
You don't think there's a problem with income inequality?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
You tell me what the problem is, I'll tell you if I agree.
I don't think there should be any billionaires in America if they're not going to build a robot suit or dress up like a bat.
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Benny illustrated it better than I ever could.
When the rich get significant tax breaks, and 1% of the population have more wealth than the bottom 90%, when the bottom 80% of the population has less than 7% of the wealth, I do not know how anyone can say there isn't a problem.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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