Happy Repeal Day
Terrapin.
The tour (and tasting tickets) are a strong, strong recommendation if you’re ever remotely near Athens, GA.
“My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” Type O-Negative
Happy Friday!!
Haha, I’d never seen this video. Type O Negative is an ARB. I really wish they had this at Karaoke (or anything off Bloody Kisses), but I have to make do with All Hallows Eve.
I remember wanting glow-in-the-dark fretboard inlays for my guitar after seeing this video. I was also amazed no fundy parents called 99X in a tizzy back when they were playing “Christian Woman”.
The big idea behind Bowles’s recent research is that some of the fundamental laws of economics – notably Adam Smith’s invisible hand, may not work in the “weightless economy – the economy that can’t be weighed, fenced, or conveniently contracted for.” Rather than being based on material wealth, knowledge-based economies are based on embodied and relational wealth. In these economies, individual-posession based property rights are difficult to enforce, and socially harmful to enforce.
Bowles suggests that we may gain some insight about the evolution of institutions under these conditions by studying the reverse transition: by studying the transition from the late Plioscene forager economy, where weath was difficult to own, to agrarian and industrial economies, based on ownership. We can study this by “running history backwards” with an agent-based model of the weightless economy. We understand the forager economy fairly well due to ethnographic research, and we might gain insights about the governance of this emergent weightless economy from studying governance dynamics in forager economies.
Bowles offers a model of wealth where the wealth of a person is the sum of network wealth, embodied wealth and material wealth. He puts exponential weights on these types of wealth in a Cobb-Douglas production function. He plots different types of economies in a triangular graph, showing their wealth in terms of these three different dynamics – material, network and embodied wealth. Recent economies based on the domestication of plants and animals concentrate in the material corner, while older economies cluster around the network wealth – embodied wealth axis.
Network wealth is the contribution made by your social connections to your well-being. This could be measured by your number of connections, or by your centrality in different networks. A simple way to think about this is the number of people who will share food with you. Embodied wealth is a combination of what you know and how strong you are. It measures factors like hunting prowess and grip strength. Bowles asserts that we’re moving from a history where network and embodied wealth mattered more that material wealth – we briefly (for about eight thousand years) moved into a world of embodied wealth, and now we’re moving back.
Saving this link for Sunday afternoon (or possibly Monday) reading.
Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class
What’s this middle class you speak of? Oh - you mean that thing that was around before cell phones and what not?
There are no outfits to buy, costumes to rent, rivers to dye green. Simply celebrate the day by stopping by your local bar, tavern, saloon, winery, distillery, or brewhouse and having a drink. Pick up a six-pack on your way home from work. Split a bottle of wine with a loved one. Buy a shot for a stranger. Just do it because you can.
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Remember to drink something with alcohol in it tomorrow.
People across the USA might take time out from the economic crisis and its sober comparisons to the Great Depression today to toast the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.
Celebrations of the 1933 ratification of the 21st Amendment, which ended the country’s dry spell, are planned in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
“Blister In The Sun” - Violent Femmes
It is important to always have a chair nearby, preferably with leather upholstery, so you can thump it on the drum beats. Sometimes, though, the passenger side seat of your car will do.
I’ve always clapped myself. Sure I may get some dirty looks from co-workers, but it’s required.
(via hachface)
Responding with “I don’t get paid enough to buy someone here even a cheap gift” may sound polite, but doesn’t go over too well with HR. Sadly.
Technically, shouldn’t HR be telling employees that they don’t have to participate in “secret Santa” if they don’t want to?
Probably not—and technically, “unpaid internships” are more or less illegal too. But when there’s 10% employment the employers can get away with quite a bit. Which to me is the real reason even the most selfish employed folks should care what the unemployment rate is.
(via hachface)
Responding with “I don’t get paid enough to buy someone here even a cheap gift” may sound polite, but doesn’t go over too well with HR. Sadly.
Intercontinental Hotel: Hong Kong
The pool that is…..
That’s a pretty nice pool….
Creepy Singing Android Heads (via A3Network)
Well this is certainly disturbing….
Nationwide, average debt for graduating seniors with loans rose from $18,650 in 2004 to $23,200 in 2008, or about six percent per year. State averages for debt at graduation in 2008 ranged from highs near $30,000 to a low of $13,000. High-debt states are concentrated in the Northeast, while low-debt states are mostly in the West. At the college level, average debt varied even more, from $5,000 to $106,000. Colleges with higher tuition tend to have higher average debt, but there are many examples of high tuition and low average debt, and vice versa.
Meanwhile, employment prospects for young college graduates have soured along with the economy. The unemployment rate for college graduates aged 20-24 was a challenging 7.6% in the third quarter of 2008, the highest third quarter rate since 2002; by the third quarter of 2009 it had risen to 10.6%, the highest on record. 1 The majority of the class of 2008 fell into this age group in both years. …
I will never have to explain what a “guido” is to my Midwestern friends again, thanks to the magic of MTV. You probably are going to want to read this. (Reader’s beware, not suitable for small children or my wholesome siblings).
Solid recap for those like me who are going to try & never watch the show, but rather just admire the shitshow from afar. Although, it’s very hard to ignore a show that finally answers the burning question, “What would happen if an Oompa-Loompa had sex with a raccoon”? The topper you ask? The topper is that the answer is a young lady from my hometown. Dutchess County can feel so proud today.
Also, I weep for their children.
I predict a plotline where the guy and gal on the far right get ostracized for not being spray-tanned to the required “burnt jaundice” shade of the others.
