Holy Sh%$!

There was a bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon (actually 2 bombs, and perhaps as many as 5 other undetonated devices). At least 3 dead, and over 100 injured.

A fire near the JFK Library at Columbia Point has been ruled out as being related to this.

Initial reports that a Saudi national had been taken into customer have been denied by the BPD.

Charlie Tore it Up at the Cubing Competition

He hit a number of personal bests, and made it to the 2^nd round of the 3x3 competition.

I was his videographer, and he will be posting vids his Youtube channel, PostalCode74.

I've attached his first vid.

Deep Thought

I with my son at a  Cubing competition at the Chesapeake Science Point School, and I just realized something:  this is one of the few places where asking the question, "What lube are you using?"is not considered rude.

That is all.

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I Miss Calvin and Hobbes

The interesting thing is that you run the numbers, the cartoon ended in 1995, he would be about this old now.

I feel so old.

It's Jobless Thursday

Initial claims were much better than last week, down 42K to 346,000, not surprising, as last week's numbers were horrible.

Whiny Bitch of the Day

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is mad as hell about the Eu's proposed financial transaction tax.

Oh the horror of a tax of one tenth of 1% on stock trades, and one one-hundredth of 1% on derivatives will destroy all life as we know it on the planet.

His argument is that it will crush the speculative arbitrage that is the meat and potatoes for Wall Street and the City of London, causing a shrinkage of the financial industry.

He says that it "has the character of a pogrom."

Well, I got your "pogrom" right here.

Randall Munroe accurately reflects my feelings on this in this cartoon:



Excess financialization of our economy is not productive, nor is it symbiotic.  It is a parasitic drain on society, and a source of instability.

It needs to be ended.

My Bad

For some reason, my cell phone app did not post the image.

Our other cat, Meatball (or Mousetrap, she does not answer to either) is freaking out.

I think that this little fluff balls scares her.