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liz sent me a horoscope that is coincidental.
It may help you to hear from an outside source — like a couple of psychics, perhaps — that you’re OK. You’re OK! But you’re not in control. You’re not in the driver’s seat. In fact, you don’t even have a driver’s license. Find the strength to find your strength without being in charge
my driver’s license expired today.
i went to panama for a few hours today, just across the sixaola river. my camera battery was inexplicably drained so i didn’t get any pictures, but i plan on going back to chase (the pueblo on the costa rican side) soon. i also went to bribri for the first time. it was a great day, and now i am posting between songs at the weekly gig at cafe rio negro. dinner just arrived.
my neighbor fabricio found this eyelash viper in his house. i was looking around for a container to move him out to the jungle, but the decision was made instead to kill him. they are highly poisonous.
sarge hipped me to a series of videos on youtube depicting your favorite rockers shredding. here is eddie v. i actually shed some tears when he busts into a bit of ironman.
i bought a copy of upton sinclair’s “the jungle” and brought it with me to costa rica. good timing, as the meat industry is once again in the news. from an article this weekend in the NYT:
To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.
[....]Perhaps the best hope for change lies in consumers’ becoming aware of the true costs of industrial meat production. “When you look at environmental problems in the U.S.,” says Professor Eshel, “nearly all of them have their source in food production and in particular meat production. And factory farming is ‘optimal’ only as long as degrading waterways is free. If dumping this stuff becomes costly — even if it simply carries a non-zero price tag — the entire structure of food production will change dramatically.”
robert reich has a good post over on his blog about the effectiveness of the stimulus plan in the works. he concludes with the inconvenient truth that what the united states needs is for the rest of the world to bail us out. i liked this analogy:
The problem is, people have different views about what’s going wrong. Wall Street sees it as a credit crisis — a mess that seems never to reach bottom because nobody on Wall Street has any idea how many bad loans are out there. Therefore, nobody knows how big the losses are likely to be when the bottom is finally reached. And precisely because nobody knows, nobody wants to lend any more money. A rate cut won’t change this. It’s like offering a 10-pound lobster to someone so constipated he can’t take in another mouthful.
here is video from the guy at high probability blog. he took a long futures position and watched it blow up. warning, MUCH salty language ensues. i feel this guy’s pain.
i have been stuck at rio negro all day watching another shitty day for the market. jim cramer delivered another rant today. he calls out the financials. definitely worth a look.
it was a little overcast today, but the swells were pretty nice and i shot a few pics, then blew them out with some saturation and stopped up the exposure a bit.
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