I don’t think I’m enough of a music geek to get this, but it’s an amusing quiz:
Your result for What’s your key signature?…
C# Minor
C Sharp. C sharp run. You’d only know I was reusing this joke from C# Major’s headline if you cheated.
Month: December 2008
Good housing crisis article.
via Flyertalk: A housing crusade that went awry
Today, administration officials say it is fair to ask whether Bush’s ownership push backfired. Paulson said the administration, like others before it, “over-incented housing.”
Keith B. Hennessey, Bush’s current chief economics adviser, put it this way: “I would not say too much emphasis on expanding homeownership. I would say not enough early focus on easy lending practices.”
Also, another good site to look at is the Doctor Housing Bubble/ blog.
Discovery of the day.
McDonalds’ Bacon Ranch Salad, which I’m occasionally eaten over the last couple of years, is just as good without dressing – the bacon and cheese basically work as dressing.
In fact, the amount of bacon and cheese on it may be a bit much without being masked by dressing, but it’s easy to pick around them when they get to be a bit much.
The Spirit of the Season
Sadly, e-sheep is gone, but Saturnalia lives on thanks to the Internet Archive.
(Above link not safe for work.)
The Zimbabwe hyperinflation, in pictures
No quote: the linked-to site is billed as “humor”, and the lead-in and text are minimal, but it’s fascinating to put some pictures to the facts.
Latest news seems to be on $200M notes.
For the record.
I do not now, and I have never owned an iPod or Zune.
I’ve owned three MP3 players:
* the first was a POS $200+ hard disk based one I bought 4-5 years ago, of which the less is said the better.
* The favorite of my current pair is an off-brand (Truly, maybe?) player-in-a-memory stick which cost under $20. It takes an AAA battery and just plays MP3s in file name order without any fuss or bother.
* My less favored, but more frequently-used one, is a little Creative has (~$90 for 4gb a bit over a year ago, cheaper now)… it has a 2.5″ screen for video, FM radio and a rechargeable battery which are big pluses… but it is much more trouble to put music onto or to play anything in a desired order. It’s also got a non-replaceable battery, which pisses me off.
I keep hoping that battery life on my PDA/phones will improve to the point where it will not be necessary to have a separate MP3 player. Sadly, I see little improvement there, and my present phone (a new HTC Touch Pro) is something of a step backwards for music player use as they went from a semi-proprietary small headset plug to an entirely proprietary USB+sound+etc plug.
(Lest the basic reference not make sense)