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It’s been a year…

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We lost Fee-Fee a year ago, we miss him dearly. In the past year, we got Bear, picked up snowboarding, I changed jobs and then switched to consulting full-time, launched a side project, we got new Macs, new phones, went to Asia twice, etc, but we still think about him all the times and we love him and miss him just as much. I remember he carried his pink toy elephant to Washington Square on his own, people always loved it when they saw him with that and often commented on how his toy was almost as big as him. I think I left that toy in the taxi when we got to the emergency hospital. Here’s a photo of him with it at the park:

Fee-Fee playing at WashSq (by AndrewNg.com)

poor doggie

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From Shanghaiist…

A dog in Changsha, Hunan province, stays by the dead carcass of his good friend, which has just been knocked down by a car. As if unwilling to believe that his companion had died, he tries to wake her up with his paws, and when he realises that he is unable to awake her, he sits quietly by her side, unfazed by all the passing traffic.

NYT Econ Journalist David Cay Johnston: It Doesn’t Add Up

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From Open Left.

NYT Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill, has written a letter to fellow journalists that deserves wide attention, urging a fundamentally skeptical approach to reporting on this purported crisis, warning against repeating the mistakes of the recent past, reporting on other Bush Administration panics…

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Here are some question to ask:

Do we need a bailout of American and foreign banks? Show us in detail the reasons for this, and the numbers: make the case.

Is there a market solution to this? If so, why impose a government solution? If not what does that tell us about our entire economic theory?

Is there a less expensive solution?

How do we know this will not just be a downpayment on a much bigger
bailout?

Is there a solution that provides direct help to those who took out these loans, rather than those who sold them?

If AIG and others are too big to fail, what does that tell us about government anti-trust policy and regulatory policy and inaction?

Why have both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley made clear that they want IN on this deal? Get skeptical and ask the basic questions — who benefits, how much and what makes this plan so attractive that Goldman and MS want to participate? Ditto for GE. That they are others want to be included should prompt a great deal of skeptical questioning.

How does banning short selling of the stocks of 900 companies help the markets? (The markets are heavily biased toward the sell side, so why constrain the shorts, who often turn out to be right about stocks whose share prices has been artificially inflated.)

How is banning short selling of this growing list of companies show a commitment to “free markets,” a stated goal of this and a long lost of previous administrations?

During this short selling ban, why are there no parallel controls on insiders getting out of their positions?

Reporters, hit the streets and telephones to ask business owners if their credit lines have been frozen. Look at swings in the stock market and put the recent swings in perspective.

Look on the Internet and see all of the ads for the very toxic mortgages that are supposedly at the core of this mess. Ask why are 1.9% loans (in which you pay that in cash and the rest of the interest is added to your mortgage balance) still being sold? Find out who continues to buy these loans.

[From Poynter Online – Forums and Open Left]

Tweets on 2008-09-15

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  • got multiapp working on a single ec2onrails instance with EBS and the goods… fuck, should’ve just started from plain ubuntu AMI… #
  • running 6 mongrels per app was a very bad idea! #
  • gonna go for a run, the nike+ training program is good motivation to keep running… #
  • @seoulfully alright, then we’ll setup a new challenge… #
  • The moon looks insane! #

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Tweets on 2008-09-12

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  • our ec2 instance now got EBS f/ persistence db storage, huge thx to @rayvinly for staying up late with me… multiapps setup almost wrkng.. #
  • downloading 2.1 #
  • gonna go into the genius bar to see if they would do something about cracked plastic trim on the upper case of my mbp #
  • faster backup/sync, NOT! #
  • @seoulfully just upgraded your WP to 2.6.2 via svn #
  • Still line at apple store for iPhones. WTF. #
  • They would replace upper mbp case but I can go without my laptop for 5 days so gonna do it later. #
  • Like maybe after I upgrade and transfer data over when new mbps come out later this year. 😀 #
  • @garru Cappuccino ftw! #
  • @sidneylo lawyers usually do #
  • @seoulfully i just upgraded, didnt have the time to go the restore route, worked fine #
  • @seoulfully should just soak with jeans on #

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Tweets on 2008-09-11

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  • @iamshimone try verizon evdo. Not sure if they have a USB card though. I tethered on caltrain and was connected 95%. The 5% was the tunnel. #
  • @iamshimone just checked vzw’s site, they have USB evdo cards… (also expresscard if i were to get one lol) #
  • @iamshimone you can probably buy the evdo card on eBay and sell your AT&T one to cover etf and go contract-free #
  • Specailtys kiosk at 1 Post St got some of the best coffee I’m SF. IntelligentsiA ftw. #
  • @rayvinly lol http://tinyurl.com/3lpnpw #

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