http://www.goal.com/en/news/1711/chelsea/2008/12/18/1017477/alex-i-must-leave-chelsea
Madrid, buy him dammit!! and retire cannavaro too.
Archive for December, 2008
Lassana Diarra to Real Madrid
December 17, 200820-25 million euros. What a waste. A d-mid who has never played in La Liga (also known as defensive midfielder HELL) and we shell out 20 million for him? yeesh.
Bank account or cash in a sock under the mattress?
December 17, 2008It’s the sock that wins.
As Krugman writes here, referencing this article, the fed has officially dropped the key interest rate to effectively zero.
Of course, being an wannabe-armchair-economist, I just had to go to the fount of wisdom that is Wikipedia. From there I find this speech by none other Ben Bernanke, circa 2002. This current crisis is a irony-hunter’s dream, and I shall indulge myself:
“So, is deflation a threat to the economic health of the United States? Not to leave you in suspense, I believe that the chance of significant deflation in the United States in the foreseeable future is extremely small, for two principal reasons.”
he gives reason 1:
“A particularly important protective factor in the current environment is the strength of our financial system: Despite the adverse shocks of the past year, our banking system remains healthy and well-regulated, and firm and household balance sheets are for the most part in good shape.”
hmm…really?
the second is good though, can’t disagree with it:
“The second bulwark against deflation in the United States, and the one that will be the focus of my remarks today, is the Federal Reserve System itself.”
The next few months are going to be interesting. The miscellaneous -expenses-credit-card-debt is what, imho, is going to be the next thing to burst. The mortgage market went first, with relatively larger loans in question. The accumulated debt of everything else may very well be next, as the deflation situation puts added pressure on people with debt as the real value of money rises.
All aboard the roller coaster.
Timesculpture: 4-Dimensional Video
December 16, 2008Watch this video: (link if the embedding doesn’t work)
This advert uses a technique called ‘timesculpture’. There’s an article in the New York Times Year in Ideas 2008.
Simply put, each actor was shot individually doing his / her / its bit. Then those micro-clips were inserted in a loop at different points in the final video.
What i like is the fact that they used regular HD camcorders to record all the individual clips and then stitched them together.
genius, aye? totally. I’ll run out on a limb here and say I won’t be surprised at all if we start seeing amateur video doing things like this. soon.
What I really want to see is timesculpture with an end-product. This video had people doing random acts with the increasing complexity being the point. Actors doing non-random acts to make something in timesclupture, now that is going to be cool.
to theme or 2 themes
December 16, 2008I’m going to keep flipping through the wordpress themes until I find something which is a) not gay b) has non-ugly colors c) 2-column or I figure out how to get my own banners and colors on it. for free.
edit: okie, got the pic changed. took the pic from the boat on the kabini reservoir in south karnataka. March 2008.
its weird how you find the weirdest sites in the wierdest ways..
December 16, 2008I was doing work. really. I was working on a publication and was doing research. Instead of finding nice citable source, (don’t worry, I DETEST MLA format. I’m not a freak) I find this. I’m think I’m going to have to cut myself so I have a distraction and stop reading this. I just cannot stop laughing.
Some excerpts:
“I, The Prime Minister of India (a.k.a Pradhan Mantri), for the Indians who are rich, sexy and nerdy, blog here! Rest can watch TV! This is a log of the nation in Hypertext Marked Lies. It will show lies in any of the popular, unpopular or controversial browsers. Designed to not meet your expectation. Updated Daily when updated! I never miss reading this myself! Enjoy!”
hear, hear Pradhan Mantriji!! Your lies work on my browser too!
“I, as a Congressman Secular Sardarji Economist Prime Minister, have managed to set up a caste system for terror victims in India.”
Read the rest of the post for the epic lulz.
“100 % consensus at the all party meeting today.”
Theoretical impossibilities ftw.
oh-em-gee photos
December 16, 2008seriously, this stuff is amazing. And how about the skyscape behind the swimmer like 3 pictures down? slightly difficult to not hog bandwidth gaping at them.
omg1stpost
December 16, 2008just call me roundy. i’m just another semi-depressed 20-something sitting in a cubicle in a cubical structure living the rat race. same as you. same as the other guy too. i made this since im really bored at work right now and wordpress hasn’t been filtered yet. I’ve no set agenda for this blog. Some of my less sucky fiction may go up on this. That and links from the underbelly (and overbelly) of the internet. this is a omg-first-post-hello-interwebs thing.
