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It’s funny how ideas can have a moment … or how did Nassim Taleb manage to worry about what we were just worrying about, i.e., what to worry about?
It is here in the comments on the last thread, and then just this morning a headline flashed past me, Fitch: Greek Election Uncertainty Raises Banks’ Liquidity Risks, as I checked on the current status of the U.S. dollar, and I remembered a … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE
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Is there any point in being mad at world leaders? On a Saturday morning at that …
Elected or not, a bunch of disappointments. But they are all nuts to try to run huge empires in the first place. I am currently particularly disappointed in the Pope, which is easy, but why can’t he defend free speech … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANTS
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Sometimes life just calls your bluff …
and I seem to be more excited than horrified! It all comes from being married to an engineer, I suppose. And an engineer who loves to sail and also had a cottage on the Georgian Bay to spend summers at … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, PHOTOS
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I once [I try to spell once waunce and it is beginning to bother me] thought of a word game
in which you would trade back and forth completely contradictory aphorisms. Like “time waits for no man” would be fought with “haste makes waste”. [Haste Makes Waist is a slogan I thought of long ago when our country came up … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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Sometimes I am not really trying to make a point … things are just interesting in and of themselves
Why tell a story? Why take a photograph? Paint a painting, write a play … act in a play? Sing a song … The arts are a funny thing. I got in trouble for saying this once because it sounded … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM
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Well, so much for not getting up in the early hours …
but frankly, sleeping from midnight to five is pretty much awesome. It reminds me of when we first had babies and if you slept for four hours you felt amazing. Perspective indeed. And I have an elderly friend, my mum’s … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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I just have to put the World’s Worst Novel in a drawer …
it has become paralyzing in a way. I may rescue the characters, but they can have a nice nap in the meantime. And unlike Sims, they won’t die if I forget to feed them. Ah, that felt good. I feel … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, WORLD'S WORST NOVEL
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It is the dawning of the age of aquarius, or maybe not …
but as arbitrary markers of time go, the new year is important because you have to remember to write a 5 instead of a 4 at the end of the year. I find this quite tricky as five and four are … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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Can’t help myself …
Happy Birthday to Me! Well, maybe that was a mistake … I kind of miss that me. But one of my brothers once famously said on someone’s advanced birthday, “Think of the alternative.” And yes, it is fabulous to be … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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I feel like an absentee landlady ..
Good Morning. Putting the “novel” on hold while we hunker down for a happy sentimental week, and by hunker I mean frantically clean and search for bedding as we are ground zero this yero, and eldest is home from the … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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