Comments on: Daily linkage

By: mm

mm — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:34:01 +0000

It’s your lunchtime and your links. No need to get so politically correct about it. Just keep it the way it was.

By: dvictr

dvictr — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:47:47 +0000

“Fed. Reserve seen continuing easy credit policy pursued since start of year. Some concern that increased reserve credit “will flow into speculative channels,” but this doesn’t seem to have happened much yet.” – news from 1930

By: Rolfe Winkler

Rolfe Winkler — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:16:44 +0000

That’s probably my fault John. The date of the paper was actually August 25th, a Monday. Perhaps it was published in the afternoon and was referring to that day’s trading.

But regardless of that particular, I think the spirit of the piece is correct. The Dow did recover significantly in 1930, only to fall again later.

By: John Meyer

John Meyer — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:37:23 +0000

Aug.24, 1930 was a Sunday. The Dow didn’t do anything that day, let alone reach a new high for the year.

By: callistenes

callistenes — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:58:54 +0000

Hump Links

By: fresno dan

fresno dan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Web-browsing makes workers more productive (University of Melbourne) So stop feeling guilty about reading these links!

I don’t feel guilty. And I couldn’t care less if it makes me more productive.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:53:24 +0000

That’s a Chinook helicopter. I jumped out of one of those back in ’98 or so, it was like walking inside a school bus that had two HUGE jet engines on the sides. (You can see one of the engines there just under the rear rotor.)

They are, I believe, the fastest helicopters in current US Army inventory, unless the Army still has the old Hughes 500s around (the Magnum P.I. helicopter — gosh, I’m old).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:48:45 +0000

You could call them “10 Minute Links”. It usually takes me about 10 minutes to scan them and read most of them cursorily.

By: Hour glass

Hour glass — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:46:57 +0000

…what about the Pacific, Oceania, Asia, Russia, Middle East, Africa ? You hurt our feelings.

‘Relative linkage’ ?
‘High Noon’?
‘How the West was Won’?
‘T-minus’
‘Derive time’ ?
‘Death row hour’ ?
‘Cow attack’ ?
‘Chopper, Dust & Static’

By: Rob Randhava

Rob Randhava — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:45:03 +0000

Maybe I’m biased because I’m also on EDT, but I’d say that it’s your blog and your lunchtime – so anyone in other time zones can just get over it.

By: Lim

Lim — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:36:30 +0000

i read during lunch time

By: dvictr

dvictr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:55:15 +0000

its always lunchtime somewhere in the world

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Since here on the ‘left’ coast I take lunch between 11 am and 2 pm you can call it anything you like. You won’t hurt my feelings and I’ll still read it.

By: dvictr

dvictr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:23:34 +0000

huge waste of money…

By: dvictr

dvictr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:23:11 +0000

cool photo…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:21:58 +0000

That’s rediculous Rolfe.

Everyone knows there are little kids on top of the helicopter swinging around a flashlight on the end of a rope.

It’s just time lapse photography… from the same stage as the “supposed” moon landing!