Merry Christmas to my blogworld friends. Here’s my gift to you. It’s a YouTube of our family last year, playing Christmas carols. I’m the bald, goateed douchebag playing the mandolin (as opposed to the bald, goateed douchebag playing the sax, that’s my bro-in-law).
It’s not good.
I’m just sayin’…
Big day for Mrs. E today.
She has an article in her hometown paper, the Webster-Kirkwood Times
That’s her at the top right:
Then there’s MLive, a joint-project of the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times,Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, and Saginaw News. Check out their article: “Time has come for Dexter, Ann Arbor women; their works are featured in Person of the Year issue”.
Finally, the Big One of the day: the Detroit News. Their article, Facing the Future, is the front page of the Lifestyle section.
Remember our Thanksgiving trip to St. Louis from Ann Arbor? Sure you do. That’s when my car caught on fire and completely burned up.
Well, Christmastime inevitably means a trip to see the fam and so yesterday at 7:30 a.m. we found ourselves on the road to St. Louis again. Yeah, yeah, we heard about the potential for some freezing rain in Indiana starting about the time we’d be going through there but, you know, we got rid of all our bad car travel juju in November, right?
Wrong.
We hit Indianapolis about noon. Everything was fine. Then about 10 minutes later, I noticed the side winds were moving my car in a noticeable way.…
Quick! What was the best part of the Bush administration?
Did you say September 11, 2001 when nearly 3,000 Americans died in a terrorist attack?
Nope, me neither.
“Dick” Cheney, on the other hand, totally did.
WALLACE: Highest moment the last eight years?
CHENEY: Hmmm. Highest moment in the last eight years? Well, I think the most important, the most compelling, was 9/11 itself, and what that entailed, what we had to deal with. The way in which that changed the nation, and set the agenda for what we had to deal with as an administration.…
Michael Oliveri is digital artist who has collaborated with materials scientist Zhengwei Pan to create marvelous nanoscapes; images taken by a scanning electron microscope of structures that are microns or nanometers in length.
The December 8, 2008 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly publication of the American Chemical Society, has a terrific piece by Stephen K. Ritter called “Genes to Gasoline”. It details recent advances in ethanol produced from non-food cellulosic sources and it should give all of us a sense of excitement about what’s possible from just this one energy source.
Although ethanol won’t solve all our energy needs, it is likely to be major component of a portfolio of sources that will replace fossil fuels in the very near future. And creating ethanol from non-food cellulosic sources is a necessary step to avoid high food costs, reduced availability of certain food sources in various parts of the world and brings to bear what I feel is the biggest strength Americans have: science-based ingenuity.…
It happened:
I think life just changed in a significant way for us.
Whoa.
(Buy the poster HERE.)
I’m just sayin’…
So today the Fed dropped the federal funds rate to it’s lowest level ever. It’s ironic. I listened to a “This American Life” episode called “The Giant Pool of Money” and it was their contention that it was the Fed’s lowering of these rates are that got us into this mess in the first place.
Why? Well I’ll tell ya why…
Banks and businesses that find themselves with large amounts of money on-hand for very short periods of time park these funds in very short-term investments to earn a little money before they are used. Because the federal rates dropped so low a few years back, this practice became much less lucrative so investors started looking for new places to put their money for a day or two or five that would earn a higher rate of return.…
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