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Random Stuff XXVII: Butt Cold Edition

Feb 05, 2007 00:37

While I thank Northern Canada for sharing her unique brand of winter weather, I wish to remind her that there can be too much of a good thing. My office, which sticks out behind our house directly into the prevailing winds, registered 9 °C (48 °F) when we got back from lunch this afternoon.

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chillyrodent February 5 2007, 12:49:42 UTC

Haha! So that's what that means.

6_bleen_7 February 6 2007, 03:48:38 UTC

Oh yes; and I've noticed that the capital gains taxes (not that we generate much of those) have been steadily shrinking. This all started, I think, during the Reagan administration, when suddenly interest income from savings accounts became fully taxable. I've noticed that in general, all dividends from bonds are ordinary, whereas many dividends from stocks are qualified. Would be interesting to investigate which ones. My guesses: Halliburton = Yes, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters = No.

toxicpickle February 5 2007, 15:31:42 UTC

The custodian at work "doesn't believe in" global warming. She told me she argues with her husband about it because he believes it (said as though he was being a silly idiot). I told her I agreed with her husband and, "you can't argue with the science." She replied, "That's what my husband says! But I argue anyway." She followed that up with, "We've always had warm years and cold years." Oh well, nuff said! I'm convinced! Tell those sciency guys to move on, Sharon has it all figured out! Warm years and cold years? Brilliant!

She also laughs inappropriately and talks to herself in the hallways, sometimes cracking right the hell up.

6_bleen_7 February 6 2007, 04:06:46 UTC

Oh, sigh: in this situation, I say, "You can believe what you like, but Mother Nature doesn't obey public opinion polls." The essay "Idiot America," one of the great modern social commentaries, places the opinion that "if I believe it with enough fervor, it will magically become true" at the core of what's wrong with Americans today. Isaac Asimov also once pointed out that until the last couple hundred years, practically everyone on Earth thought the world was flat, yet it kept on being round anyway.

Stephen Colbert invented the word truthiness to denote the all-too-common confusion of beliefs/hopes and facts.

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6_bleen_7 February 6 2007, 04:13:57 UTC

Wow; when I was in elementary school, ozone depletion and climate change weren't even issues. That was back when everybody smoked, and when Magic Markers (the original Magic Markers) were little more than vehicles for widespread exposure to potent carcinogens. But damn, they smelled good.

6_bleen_7 February 6 2007, 04:14:58 UTC

Thanks! Too bad I had to crop the computer ones way down; I didn't realize I had all sorts of confidential data from work up on the screen whilst we were taking those shots.

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margareta87 February 12 2007, 18:40:08 UTC

Hi there! I found your LJ through autumnbottom's link to your burqini entry. Your posts are really interesting and I think you and I are of like mind on a lot of things, so I'm adding you if that's ok with you.

6_bleen_7 February 14 2007, 00:09:12 UTC

Howdy, and welcome!