Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Fibonacci - It's as simple as 1,1,2,3


I downloaded Firefox 3.0 today. Near as I can tell the changes are cosmetic, but they say it's faster and safer. I need to poke around to see if I can find compatible versions of the plug-ins I had with the old version. I liked color tabs but so far I'm not seeing it for 3.0.

This is one of those sites you play with when you're supposed to be working, or listening to your wife. It tracks commercial and private flights in U.S. air space. You can look at the area around specific airports, look at the planes from a specific airline, or, if you know the flight number, track that plane.
Flight Aware

Here's a headline from the WOODTV.com site:
"Woman takes bullets in leg, wrist in Battle Creek."
It's a good thing her wrist was in Battle Creek so it didn't get hit, too.

I got a call from the door company this afternoon. The doors that were supposed to be ready tomorrow, no sweat, won't be ready until Friday. That throws things off. I don't know if I'll work on installing them Friday afternoon or wait until Monday.
Oh well.

In my search for music that works for us on Sundays I've come across Laura Story. I like her music. Have you ever heard her?

Sweet crude (why do they call it sweet?) is down over $10 in the last two days and the stock market is up. The free market economy works.
On the NBC news tonight they talked about the depressed housing market and steps Congress might take to prop it up. They interviewed a builder who has just broken ground on a new 200+ unit development. He said that if the government didn't do something soon he'd have to stop building.
Uhm, and the problem is...?
GM should stop building trucks, Starbucks should stop opening coffee shops and builders should stop building houses.
Why is the housing industry different from all the others in our economy? If supply exceeds demand, enabling contractors to increase that supply further is a recipe for disaster. Housing prices are high relative to the consumer's ability to pay. For too long that gap was narrowed via bogus mortgages, but that's come, or is coming to an end. It make take some time, but the law of supply and demand insures that eventually we'll return to a more balanced housing market where the consumer's ability to pay and the builders' manufacturing levels and costs are reasonably close.
Or am I missing something?

Why do some people have volatile tempers and others never lose their composure? Nature or nurture? Or some combination of the two?

"After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage." - a quote from "How to be a Good Wife" published in 1936.

2 comments:

elzie said...

I have discovered Laura Story recently, and one of these next times I'm scheduled for special music at church, I want to try her song, "Grace".

elzie

Anonymous said...

YES, Laura Story's music is wonderful. WCSG plays it alot here.