Author Archives: Alaska

The Seven Percent Non-Solution

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Alaska

Ten short days ago, the $125 Spanish bank rescue plan was being hailed, briefly, by rattled European officials as a breakthrough that would stabilize the eurozone’s fourth largest economy. Now yields on Spanish 10 year bonds have passed 7 percent, … Continue reading →

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Bow Shock? In Space?

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Alaska

I think it’s shit-eating-grin cool that despite all my years of (admittedly, sporadic) fascination with the solar system, the matter-of-fact way the solar system is depicted here traveling through space, generating a bow wave dropped my jaw to the floor. … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/18/12 Edition

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Alaska

In fact, not only do audiences not run me out of the lecture halls, they get excited about oil production, and a little bit upset that they never learned this anywhere else. For example, most people are blown away when … Continue reading →

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Spain’s Ten-Year Yield Moonshot

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Alaska

Everybody seems happy about the Greek elections. No financial Armageddon just yet, right? On the other hand, there are the Spanish bond traders….

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Trauma Makes It Tender

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Alaska

Yesterday my daughter graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Masters’ in Education. We celebrated with a bunch of meat over a fire. This is goat meat from a goat our soon-to-be son-in-law (above) slaughtered in the primitive living skills … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/13/12 Edition

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Alaska

Ya know the stare from the one dollar bill? Yeah, that one. Alexander Hamilton once offered to buy Gouverneur Morris dinner if he would clap Washington on the shoulder and say how great it was to see him again. When … Continue reading →

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For MadRock

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Alaska

I dig your new phone, dude. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

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Tilt-Shift Photography

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Alaska

Via Roberta X. I have been wondering what mechanism they were using for the opening scenes of London in Sherlock. Now I know. As a miniature-diorama enthusiast since I was very small, this, for me, is more delightful than reality.

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Brain Feed

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Alaska

I pretty much live to read. I get twitchy if I sit down to a meal and don’t have a book handy. Cereal boxes kept me sane at childhood breakfasts. My mom taught me to read at 3.* At five … Continue reading →

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China Daily update

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Alaska

So the free China Daily newspapers that started appearing on my driveway last week ( and my neighbors’) have stopped, just as abruptly. I suspect folks complained, especially when they read this article (not an editorial, mind you) on Page … Continue reading →

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