Now, this is more like it.
Right
Barrelling
Ask MetaFilter on the iconic image of a barrel-clad pauper. Useful in one’s economic planning.
Eyes
Ed Welch’s Vintage Eyeglasses and Antique Spectacles.
I recently had an antique rimless set of eyeglasses recut for my prescription. I purchased the spectacles on eBay for about $5. Unfortunately, the right temple earhook was broken. I had them repaired, and they are wearable, but the repair work shortened the earhook to the point that they require relatively frequent adjustment.
Perhaps Ed will be able to assist me.
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Look at this amusing Google ad I saw in my Gmail window a minute ago:
It linked to http://www.google.com/, so I’m guessing it’s a test ad of some sort. I was disappointed, and had hoped to find some clever joke behind the footype.
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Bumper
On the way to work today, I was puzzled by a bumper sticker.
Next to a smiling headshot of Barack Obama, tiny type stated, “We had to go through four years of Carter before we got Reagan.”
At first I was just confused. Was this a pro-Obama sticker? After all, it’s plainly apparent that W is the worst president in modern times. Yet, if that were the case, why cite Carter?
So if it’s intended as an anti-Obama sticker, what the hell is with the freaking just giving up? Even if the polls are running Obama’s favor, and McCain’s campaign looks like a trainwreck of historic proportions today, it ain’t over ’til it’s over.
Yet here on the road before me was what seems to be evidence of surrender. I don’t quite get it.
Anyway, I guess it’s good news either way. If the sticker is somehow likening Obama to Reagan from the perspective that that evil old man was somehow good for the country, great. If it’s a concession, great.
I’m not holding my breath, but there is a shitload – nearly 30 years’ worth – of bad policy and worse politics to undo after the election. It will take a politician as effective as Reagan to tackle it.
hunh
Well, wasn’t that a week?
I want to see some ass kicking tonight. Fingers crossed.
iimac
Reread redeemed
For reasons unknowable to myself, I was drawn to excavate the Sherman Alexie short story What You Pawn I Will Redeem first from the recesses of my mind and thence from the archives of the New Yorker. It remains as astonishing and moving as it was on first reading. I so want to read it aloud to Viv, but I shall refrain. I know I did at the time that it first appeared in the magazine. While I read to her now and again this was the hardest thing I have ever read aloud.
Chrome
I have been using the Google browser at work this week. I like it a lot, especially the minor-seeming UI refinements. It also seems to whomp Firefox in terms of not eating memory over time. Wonder is there’s an ETA on a Mac version?
Roger
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