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[littlefallsmets]

Football has its own thread, Nab, y'see.

And even though you invested smartly and safely, a crash sinks everyone who doesn't have the advisors and the capital and the cynicism to get out early before the fall.

Even though smart long-term investing is not the con-job that speculation, when the daytraders and the houseflipper fuck shit up enough, basically everything goes down the toilet with it. A bubble was created through cynical market manipulation preying on naive optimism but... yeah, when it pops, anything within the vicinity goes.

It definitely sucks but if there's any consolation, it is definitely clear who is to blame and stuff.

[Nabubrush]

Football has its own thread, Nab, y'see.

That's because football doesn't suck.

[V-Adore]

Best of luck to you and yours, JL. It is my hope that the wee one is born easily, peacefully, and soon.

[lprkn]

I'm pretty sure that Things will be ok, LFM. When you start talking politics and economics, I just get visions of fat white guys with cigars, pocket watches, and top hats. I chuckle to myself, and move on.



Also JL, best of luck with the baby. I'm pulling for you, hope everything comes out ok.

Sorry.

[wombat]

JL, if anyone can successfully have a perfectly good baby in a hospital lobby, you're it.

[Lister]

... stay home from work with a chest cold.  Which is lucky, because it turns out the payment I thought went through for my internet service actually didn't do anything.  Hooray for ISPs who can't make a functional website!

Also I plan to make soup.  Yum.

[wombat]

Economics split off here.

[lprkn]

Today I'm gonna be glad that I'm still in my early 20s and have my health. I have a little bit stashed in a mutual fund, but I really don't pay attention to it.

Also: "you are a salt-miner." That is classic. A-CAP needs another avatar,such as:

[theinevitable]

... find out there is this thing, this Google Calendar thing, and it is cool. I like it.

For the first time in my life, I am putting the things I need to plan ahead for on a calendar. Holy shit.
I also bought a watch this weekend.

good thing I wore dirty clothes today because I forgot to do laundry... otherwise I'd be worried.

edit: holy crap, I can put CONCERTS on there too! Maybe in a different color, that would be rad.

[Nabubrush]

... find out there is this thing, this Google Calendar thing, and it is cool. I like it.

For the first time in my life, I am putting the things I need to plan ahead for on a calendar. Holy shit.

My wife and I started using the Yahoo calendar just recently, because I guess I am old enough to where it's all I can do to remember to put on trousers in the morning. It's pretty cool in that we can both access the same calendar and put stuff on it and everything, but they have some things that are stupid. I can put on a repeating item that is once a week, or every two weeks, or whatever - but I cannot put on a item that repeats the same day of the month. If my wife has a class Mondays and Wednesdays, I cannot do that, but I can do M, W, & F. Hmm. Is google better?

[Doc]

I discovered google calendar last year and used it to plan out a holiday that didn't actually end up happening, but damn it is a cool little application.

[Nabubrush]

Today I'm going to wonder why Bozack is still a moderator of "Wild Card".

[wombat]

He's still a mod of History also.

[theinevitable]

no, it doesn't let you do slightly odd repetition patterns.
the options are:
daily
monthly
weekdays
every mon/wed/fri
tu/thurs
weekly
yearly

I just figured out I can put things into different categories with different colors. Rad.
But for some reason there is not really an easy way to do that, unless you do it at the time you create the event. I decided I wanted to make Concerts a different color, and I had to go through every single one I had typed in and switch it to be part of my "Shows" calendar rather than my General one. By clicking on it, and going to "edit event details," and then switch it.
There is also not a way to change the colors of items arbitrarily (ie, other than putting them on a separate "calendar" which still shows up on your main calendar.)
So, I have to either make a separate calendar called, I don't know, "events" and put such as Spring Break, Last Day of Classes, etc on that, or make them the same color as school assignments and exams. Lame. I guess it is kind of like how you can't make folders in gmail?

google docs is also pretty rad.

[Nabubrush]

I'm sure this has been covered, but I get a perverse enjoyment out of getting pissed that technology can't do certain things when things are tearing along so fast as it is. Best example is bitching about storage on my iPod when I can already carry around in a box the size of a cigarette pack basically every album that everyone in my family owned when I was in high school.