Arbitrary Aardvark

Sunday, December 30, 2012

http://thisblogisverygood.blogspot.com/

i was looking for a good blog. not sure this is it.

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currently reading: The Fortune Cookie Chronicals, Jennifer 8. Lee. I think Tyler Cowen recommended this.
Pure Goldwater. Notes from Goldwater's diaries collected by his son.
Bought but not read yet: Dreams of my Father (or something) by Barack Obama.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

I'm hoping to hear soon that the informal "yes" to my $12,000 offer on this house will now be a formal yes, so we can close by email next month. I just faxed some more documents that I hope will pin down the deal.
edit: did not get the house. first they asked for my highest and best offer, then they tried to get me to bump it up $400. I think they ended up selling it for less to someone else, which seems like squandering a government asset; it was a VA-owned home. I looking at a couple other houses for less.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

cragged shame-pits of the lust wolves

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

tv fishtank howto

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Lord of Misrule

# posted by gt @ 20:00

http://catledrivers.com/?p=16

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

http://bill-of-rights-day.org/

The bill of rights (the federal one) was adopted on this day.

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Friday, December 14, 2012

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/ a blog by a guy who thinks about things in his house. the post that brought me there was about one of the batteries in his photovoltaic system going out, "death of a battery".

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130714T22&p0=179&fg1=000&fg2=9acd79&msg=Breaking+Bad+Season+5.2

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Sunday, December 09, 2012

the other guys. will ferrell, mark wahlberg, derek jeter. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/
a buddy cop farce. i liked it. one of the perks of doing studies is we get to watch a lot of movies.

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Friday, December 07, 2012

smarter traffic lights in chattanooga, the economist

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fiscal cliff approaches, warns obama

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-daily-rundown/50101912

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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

snow crash first chapter
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120f02/victory/snowcrash.html

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