Memorial Day 2018 May 28, 2018
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I don’t think I can embed this excellent video so I’ll just put the link here.
May we, as Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg, “highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
http://lp.hillsdale.edu/memorial-day/?appeal_code=MK518EM5
Mixed Messages May 24, 2018
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No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts
I’ll leave you to find your own take-home message.
I Found a Frame May 24, 2018
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Found the perfect frame with reddish and black wood to match the painting.
I took the picture from an angle so you can see the molding.
Brewer’s Blackbird May 12, 2018
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I just want to state for the record that this is not a little chirpy bird. That is all.
Oh, and my super clingy kids were super clingy today, and absolutely did not want me to paint this guy. Nevertheless, I persisted.
Killdeer Faking It May 11, 2018
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Killdeer are one of my favorite Idaho birds. Can you spot her nest in this picture?
It’s below the bag that I tied onto the fence.
Close up:
Here’s a video when I got too close to her nest (shot from the other side of the fence).
The Top-Ranked Websites in the US May 9, 2018
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The top 20 websites in the US:
- YouTube
- Amazon
- Yahoo
- XVideos
- PornHub
- XNXX
- eBay
- Wikipedia
- Craigslist
- Bing
- Live
- Netflix
- xHamster
- Walmart
Tallying it all up, we have 5 social media sites, 4 porn sites, 3 search engines, 3 shopping sites, a couple of entertainment sites, and a few extras.
All 4 porn sites are doing better than Walmart. Three are doing better than eBay, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Netflix (which I thought was responsible for a significant fraction of internet activity in the US).
The other two surprises are that Yahoo is doing that well (thought they were dying), and that IB couldn’t even beat Pinterest.
Dang.
Manufacturing Job Growth Getting Freakishly Good May 7, 2018
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I mean, look at these numbers:
Phenomenal.
May 2018 Employment Situation Summary May 5, 2018
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Once again there was a lot of noise about the BLS’s Employment Situation Summary, which came out yesterday. 3.9% was the official unemployment number, which is nice, but not particularly meaningful (IMHO). The meaningful number is our IB measure of employment health: full-time jobs divided by the civilian non-institutional population. And that number was only slightly improved over the previous month:
The number of employed people barely changed from last month (Household Survey), but 175K part-time jobs turned into full-time jobs. So yay.
Still, a long way to go to get back to 0.51.
Innocent Bystanders 