official-irony.com

What we do is decide to do a little legitimate investing, see? …

We buy options that expire in less than 48 hours…

We get lucky, no work involved, no skill —just pure gut

less than 24 hours later and one hour’s worth of sweating, we turn 3k into 48k .

This is the most blatant example of inequities breeding inequities

I feel guity… but the again anyone could do this…
couldn’t they?.

And no so long ago, I had just a futon, a picnic table-come-desk, and maybe a few beers in the fridge for friends when they were over.

However the next day is when things get interesting. See, I didn’t really have much to do with this, other than providing the stake, it was her. She did it all —oh, I helped here adn there a little bit providing infrastructure and know how –but it really was all her, and today, I’m a bit more submissive, what she wants to do today, she does, she’s calling the shots. We both don’t realize we’re doing until we do, watching the shift in power happen so suddenly and subtlely.

I have of late been having long spells of what I have been through and can sit in a daze for hours about what has happened all these years.

Like many people of a certain age, trying to score a big one is not really feasible but maybe trying to fish a medium one is do-able and so we have bough a house to flip and I have spent many, hard ours ripping up carpet, linoleum , wood paneling, brick fireplaces, kitchen and bathroom sinks and have put up dry-wall, laid down tile and grouted (and found out that not only do you need to make sure you have the same grout color but you need to make sure it came from the same batch number or else the colour will be off), gone deaf cutting tile, have learned how surprisingly heavy tile is and have learned that everything –everything– takes 3-4 times longer than I expect because the “prep” work is not only arduous and unglamorous but once its done, you can’t point to it and show off.

Suddenly, I realize that I’m are about to have three car payments and three mortgages and wonder exactly how it all started when so long ago you used to say were a minimalist.

“How does it feel?,” Bob D. will ask and this time there is no reply that seems to make sense or that I can discuss with anyone else because they all will look at you strangely and wonder why you are even wondering.

I am setting here across from them and they are telling me that not only will the upheaval continue but there doesnt appear to be any end in sight as the old ways are dying and what is new isn’t here yet.

At McKeowan’s at 12:15pm (lunchtime) eating avocado bacon chicken sandwishes and listening to Frank Sinatra sing *Pennies from Heavan* I got some booties.

:~:~:~:~:

He says *Everything will change. You don’t believe me now but you will, when it happens you won’t remember what it was like before.*

Doing his best to put up with me.

There are few things more revelatory than hearing my dad give a critical analysis of Gilmore Girls and the how and why the 6th season is turning out to be a disappointment to him and not to laugh because the interaction between the mother and daughter were really something to see.

I feel like out of respect for other blogs this one should be taken down.
It’s next to impossible to write anything of importance if you have the least bit of something to lose.
Ie, the most interesting things are the things that can’t be said at work or even discussed at work or even found out by work , so while all these things are happening, none can happen here.

Not sure what to do.

From David Foster Wallace:

“The intimacy of the whole thing is maximized at home, which of course is where most lobsters get prepared and eaten (although note already the semiconscious euphemism “prepared” which in the case of lobsters really means killing them right there in our kitchens). The basic scenario is that we come in from the store and make our little preparations like getting the kettle filled and boiling, and then we lift the lobsters out of the bag or whatever retail container they came in … whereupon some uncomfortable things start to happen. However stuporous the lobster is from the trip home, for instance, it tends to come alarmingly to life when placed in boiling water. If you’re tilting it from a container into the steaming kettle, the lobster will sometimes try to cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof. And worse is when the lobster is fully immersed. Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature’s claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around. The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water (with the obvious exception of screaming). A blunter way to say this is that the lobster acts as if it’s in terrible pain, causing some cooks to leave the kitchen altogether and to take one of those little lightweight plastic oven timers with them into another room and wait until the whole process is over.”

But is it Art?

We are vacationing in Boston(portland,ma next)

It’s good. Better than I expected.

It makes me feel poorer and dumber in new and unexpected ways every couple hours.

It also let’s me know there is a need for a word that is like *irony* but isn’t.

I see someone (like me) driving a Porsche.

And I think to myself:

I would buy that Porsche not because it’s a status symbol saying I’m better than you, but because its an excellent driving machine, and then I would tool around, watching people watch me drive the Porsche and I would think:

“I know that you think that I think I’m driving a Porsche because its a status symbol of being better than you, but really I bought it because its an excellent driving machine and worth the money and because I know you don’t know this and think you know the other banal materialistic reason for Porsche ownership -that fact- that *mistake in ideology* is what makes me better than you.”

Recently, I’ve noticed that what I wanted to be and what I am becoming are starting to become less fuzzy.

It’s a strange thing becoming who we are going to be. Watching it come much too slowly and then *blink* - it’s over and done with and the paths are set.

Sexless, money obessesd, grey suited business men.

Co-dependant, sexualy frustrated, alcoholic wives.

Does knowing this allow for any recourse?

Are family histories for chronic depression, alcohoism or schizophrenia the hands that we are dealt?
[Still editing]

I see someone else also didn’t make the list.

What I know is that he takes excrutiatingly long long showers like my dad. His starts a lot of his sentences with “Uhmmm”, like me, my other brother and my dad.

In the car he will breather in through his nose like my brother and then cough a bit before exhaling.

He will gag like my brother when he tried anything new or foreign.

In all, its interseting to learn the irritating things that someone in your family does and learn how they cross generations.

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Originally uploaded by thisuser.

This is marc. This is my youngest brother.
In ways both endearing and irritating, he is exactly like my other younger brother.
He is out here with me.
We are learning about each other.

I used to spend my weekend eating at the same place and then kind of while-ing away the time at the local coffee bookstore or breakfast nook and chatting with anyone who I would happen to know and meet, but of late I stay put, watch kids, look after the dogs and cats, help with homework, run to to the store for this-or-that and generally have my weekends full in strangely quiet ways.

He says she told him,

“Fair Warning- I did not take it.”

so they say, “We decided to have a kid.”

embers write

I mentioned yesterday too that few of these site have comments. And I was thinking to myself, “well at least they have trackbacks, that makes up for it”. But….They DON’T!!! I mean come on, this is insane. BoingBoing has a lame little link to Technorati, and Kottke doesn’t have any way whatsoever to acknowledge people who comment on his blog entries through their sites. These people are barely part of the community. The extent that they are a part is that they link to people who typically REALLY ARE in the community and who do have comments and trackbacks and something original to post themselves. I respect if you don’t want comments for some reason. But if you’ve dropped all acknowledgement of your detractors and commentators all together, for example through trackbacks, then you’re essentially a shuck.

What’s interesting is that popular sites do seem to reacha threshold where they turn off the two-way interaction. Part of it could be that they would simply be overwhelmed by all the moderating they would have to do but then again, they are getting paid, but since they are getting paid they just have to keep the employer/advertisers happy and that would be an intersting things to watch.

so what is that point when you can say, Enough. I dont need you suckers because you all love me!

I’ve been thinking about what Kottke is trying to do.

There was this little thing, because a lot of noticed that Kottke doesnt have trackbacks enabled, but then we noticed that he does and he doesn’t

Embrash Writes

Btw, Anil tore down my trackbacks mention, specifically that I said that Kottke doesn’t have trackbacks. You seem to mention that you see some trackbacks there, and truth is I didn’t think in principle that I should search through many articles on his site to find one with trackbacks. I went twice, looked at two full length articles, and in both cases didn’t find trackbacks, so it seemed to match my point, even if he sometimes has them.

Perhaps now that he’s getting paid, he won’t mind having them turned on more freely.

Yes, Kottke is going to have to be more *and* less selective about his trackbacks, because while he is basically just getting paid to post interesting links and make (hopefully) interesting comments on them, what we really are seeing is a community taking shape.

In this case, it is much more blatant that the community is going to be around one person. This has already happened with Beth and her sit Xeney.com. Its supposed to be a community site, but let me tell ya’, you can tell that Beth shapes even thought she dooesnt really want to *and* this makes the site even better.

Thus, I submit, Kottke is going to try to make a community around himself. Hence, trackbacks are going to be more popular with him.
However people are already recognizing that Kottke himself may not be that person