I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 10 Hacks to Improve Your Home Office Productivity.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“When you are insane, you are busy being insane – all the time… When I was crazy, that”s all I was.” Sylvia Plath. p. 66
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
With less than five days remaining before the joke vote on the sham constitution, the military dictators of Myanmar have been handed a horrible disaster in the form of Category 3 Cyclone Nargis. (Hurricane Katrina was a Class 3 storm when it struck Louisiana.) No solid numbers on the death toll are in, but it may exceed 4,000.
From Reuters:
Myanmar’s military authorities a foreign aid workers struggled on Monday to assess the damage from a devastating cyclone that killed more than 350 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
State media said 20,000 homes were destroyed on one island alone after Cyclone Nargis, a Category 3 storm packing winds of 190 km (120 mile) per hour, ripped through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta on Saturday.
The death toll is likely to climb as the authorities slowly make contact with islands and villages in the delta, the rice bowl of the former Burma.
“The government is having as much trouble as anyone else in getting a full overview. Roads are not accessible and many small villages were hit and will take time to reach,” Terje Skavdal, regional head of the U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told Reuters in Bangkok. Continue Reading »
The gas tax holiday is small potatoes relative to everything else. But it”s so economically stupid (it would increase demand for gas and cause prices to rise, eliminating any benefit to consumers while costing the Treasury more than $9 billion, and generate more pollution) and silly (even if she won, HRC won”t be president this summer) as to be worrisome. That HRC now says she doesn”t care that what economists think is even more troubling.
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 10 Tips for Would-Be Podcasters.
The recession of 2001 never ended.
At least not for ordinary Americans.
Ordinary Americans found that their income was declining. From 2001 to 2007, median family income declined – depending on where you get your figures from – by somewhere between $500 and $1,000. Median individual income went down by at least $1,000.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Question: Is Hillary Clinton still a senator? Is John McCain? Why haven’t they introduced gas tax holiday legislation if it’s such an urgent need for the yeomen of Indiana and North Carolina? This isn’t one of those “when I’m president” promises-if you want relief for summer 2008, then legislate to make relief happen for summer 2008. The only reason you wouldn’t is if it’s, you know, a poll-tested fraud.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…obsessive-compulsive disorder personality traits, if not full blown, are useful in work that requires a high degree of accuracy. [i.e. my father as draftsman/designing engineer.] p. 65
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
[Update — 0806, 5 May — From the Associated Press:
A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to nearly 4,000.
The radio station said Monday that almost 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town.
The government had previously put the death toll countrywide from Saturday’s Cyclone Nargis at 351.
The storm has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and without clean drinking water, a U.N. official has said.]
In the western hemisphere we call them hurricanes. In the western Pacific Ocean they’re typhoons. In the Indian Ocean they’re tagged as cyclones. Regardless of the name, they wreck havoc on the people least able to flee or ride out the winds, floods and driving rain. In Myanmar the death toll from Cyclone Nargis is at 351 4,000 and rising.
From the Associated Press:
A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and knocked out power in the country’s largest city, state-run media said Sunday.
Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph, the military-run Myaddy television station said.
Shari Villarosa, the top American diplomat in Yangon, said trees and electricity lines were down in the city after the storm’s whipping winds and torrential downpour.
“Our Burmese staff have lost their roofs,” she told The Associated Press. “There is major devastation throughout the city.”
Five regions of the impoverished Southeast Asian country have been declared disaster zones.
At least 351 people were killed, including 162 who lived on Haing Gyi island off the country’s southwest coast, state-run television said. Many of the others died in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta. Continue Reading »
Conservapedia is a clean and concise resource for those seeking the truth. We do not allow liberal bias to deceive and distort here. Founded initially in November 2006 as a way to educate advanced, college-bound homeschoolers, this resource has grown into a marvelous source of information for students, adults and teachers alike.
And what do you think the readers of Conservapedia are most interested in? According to its own accounting, here’s what you find in the among the 12 most popular pages.
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And conservative think liberals are oversexed.
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Can Poetry Matter?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…the people who are most creative – or at least productive – are not the mentally ill but their close relatives. Researchers think that most mental illnesses are caused by multiple genes and that close relatives have some, but not all, of those genes. One explanation of why those genes have persisted through the ages, and do not get bred out of the population, is that they may give some advantage – perhaps creativity – to people who have a smaller number of them – even if a larger number cause the disease. p. 64
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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