Monthly Archives: March 2009

Interview with David Sullivan (gbudavid on various social media sites)

Note: Yes, I’m busy, still. David was gra­cious enough to pro­vide me with this so I wouldn’t have to spend too much time putting together a blog entry. Many thanks to him for help­ing out. David Sul­li­van is a US Navy Vet­eran liv­ing in Port­land, Ore­gon, work­ing as a truck dri­ver. It’s neat hear­ing from him …

March 31, 2009 – 4:23 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (3)

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If I showed you the sub­scrip­tion num­bers for this blog, you would break into open laugh­ter. Hint: there are 20 peo­ple sub­scribed via Google Reader, and I know I’m one of them. For 3 years of blog­ging, I should be some­where around the 200 sub­scrip­tion mark by now, and instead I’m way, way less than a 100. …

March 30, 2009 – 5:01 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (1)

Links, 3/30/09

First three links, h/t aldaily.com; fourth link is from LGF: Parisians aren’t rude, but “impos­si­bly polite:” fta — When my son was learn­ing to write, his school report gave him marks for whether his boucles, or loops, of his joined-up let­ters respected to the mil­lime­tre the inter-line bound­aries printed on the page. At the same …

March 30, 2009 – 1:34 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

Reading too much into risk: On Dickinson’s “We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape…” (1175)

“We like a Hair­breadth ‘scape…” (1175) Emily Dick­in­son We like a Hair­breadth ‘scape It tin­gles in the Mind Far after Act or Acci­dent Like para­graphs of Wind If we had ven­tured less The Breeze were not so fine That reaches to our utmost Hair Its Ten­ta­cles divine. Com­ment: The nar­ra­tor speaks about risk and the “les­son” …

March 29, 2009 – 10:41 pm | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Comments (2)

Links, 3/26/09

I know, I know. I have work to do, I’m behind. Still, real fast: Brad DeLong presents the Gei­th­ner Plan FAQ. (h/t marginalrevolution.com) It’s actu­ally pretty clear, a few of you have voiced con­cerns about how this would fail: “What if busi­nesses don’t need the credit to expand right now any­way?” I haven’t really found any­thing …

March 26, 2009 – 12:02 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)