Miscellaneous
President Obama on the S&P downgrade: “Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America,” Obama said. “No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country.” Translation: “Don’t worry if you lost a quarter of your life’s savings within the past one week. [...]
Bishwanath Ghosh has a fabulous post on the pain of letting go of one’s audio cassette collection. For anyone who had lived through the era of cassette tapes, a sense of nostalgia is inescapable. Ghosh ends his post with a Parthian shot: “Music, in short, was sweat and blood: you had to earn it and work [...]
The funniest reaction to S&P downgrading the US credit rating came from the most likely of sources — the Treasury Department. In a document provided to Treasury on Friday afternoon, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) presented a judgment about the credit rating of the U.S. that was based on a $2 trillion mistake. After Treasury pointed [...]
Back when I was in high school, one of my favorite books was my mother’s old copy of High School English Grammar and Composition by H. Wren and P.C. Martin. I have lost count of the number of times I would have gone back to the book. It was a treasure trove; every time I [...]
I read Carl Sagan’s Cosmos back when I was 14, back when my dream was to become an astrophysicist. (I must admit that the dream is now just a blur, so much so that I patted myself just now for spelling astrophysicist right at the first time of trying.) I read Sagan’s book just after [...]
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