Ball point pen on the morning newsprint From moonshine martini drinking Hawkeye to curious host of PBS series on human physiology, Alan Alda is interested and interesting. Check out "The Human Spark" a new three part series exploring human intelligence premiering tonight on PBS. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint With over 40% of Dubai's office space empty, the emirate's debt to GDP ratio standing at 148%, and Abu Dhabi's recent bailout of the emirate on the verge of bankruptcy, Dubai opened the world's most ostentatious building. Over half a mile tall, it stands as a monument to all that went wrong in the last decade. A half mile seems like an abstract height for a building. To put it in perspective, the Eiffel Tower still stands as the tallest structure in Paris at 1,063 feet tall. Until yesterday, the tallest building in the world was Taipei 101, in Taiwan, nearly 2/3rds taller than the Eiffel Tower, it's 1,671 feet tall. Now, If you stack both structures on top of one another, you begin to understand how tall the Burj Dubai Tower stands at 2,717 feet tall....Uhg. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Many believe the Federal Reserve contributed to the housing bubble by keeping interest rates too low for too long following the 2001 recession. Yesterday, Ben Bernanke pointed a finger at regulators, not interest rates as the guilty party responsible for reckless lending, the housing bubble and subsequent financial meltdown. The Fed now seeks greater regulatory authority. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint With two college age children, space is a frequent topic. But college students should be thankful to share 200 square feet with only one other. Japan is experiencing it's worst recession since WWII and the unemployed have taken to selling off all possessions, decreasing the size of their footprint and moving into coffin sized digs. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost kee ...
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