Comments for Stickybuffalo.com http://www.stickybuffalo.com Belaboring the Obvious Since 2001 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Buffalo Chip Book Reviews, August 2010 by Stickybuffalo.com » Buffalo Chip Book Reviews, August 2010 | eBook Reviews http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/buffalo-chip-book-reviews-august-2010#comment-392 Stickybuffalo.com » Buffalo Chip Book Reviews, August 2010 | eBook Reviews Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:59:25 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=855#comment-392 [...] Original post by matt [...] [...] Original post by matt [...]

]]> Comment on Monsoon season again by matt http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/monsoon-season-again#comment-388 matt Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:24:02 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=825#comment-388 <p>Hm. Interesting... People have certainly been stuck at that "denial" stage for long enough, after all. And there are still four stages to go after it.</p> <p>"Anger" and "bargaining" should be a real hoot if folks begin moving on to them a widespread basis.</p> Hm. Interesting… People have certainly been stuck at that “denial” stage for long enough, after all. And there are still four stages to go after it.

“Anger” and “bargaining” should be a real hoot if folks begin moving on to them a widespread basis.

]]> Comment on Monsoon season again by josh http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/monsoon-season-again#comment-387 josh Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:00:54 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=825#comment-387 did you guys see <a href="http://gazetteonline.com/opinion/editorial/2010/08/14/dealing-with-nature%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98new-normal'" rel="nofollow">this</a>? "So what most Iowans suspected is verified: Iowa is enduring its wettest three-year period in the 127 years official weather records have been kept." chet culver's calling catstrophic floods "the new normal." i think it's finally beginning to sink in out there.</span></span></p> did you guys see this?

“So what most Iowans suspected is verified: Iowa is enduring its wettest three-year period in the 127 years official weather records have been kept.”

chet culver’s calling catstrophic floods “the new normal.” i think it’s finally beginning to sink in out there.

]]> Comment on Monsoon season again by matt http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/monsoon-season-again#comment-386 matt Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:37:33 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=825#comment-386 <p>Yeah I grew up not too far from Monticello, which had some flooding when the dam burst; I was watching that one too.</p> <p>How bad must it get... hm... "pretty bad" is my guess. (But you knew I'd say that.)</p> Yeah I grew up not too far from Monticello, which had some flooding when the dam burst; I was watching that one too.

How bad must it get… hm… “pretty bad” is my guess. (But you knew I’d say that.)

]]> Comment on Monsoon season again by charlie http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/monsoon-season-again#comment-385 charlie Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:56:31 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=825#comment-385 <p>Yeah, somehow the Iowa Corps of Engineers managed not to flood Iowa City this year, but who knows how long that'll last. It wasn't that long ago that the <a href="http://www.necn.com/07/24/10/Iowa-dam-bursts-lets-loose-flood-waters/landing_nation.html?blockID=276861&feedID=4207" rel="nofollow">dam south of Manchester burst</a>. I happened to watch one of the morning shows as I got ready this morning and they referred to this all as "is THIS global warming?" and brought up the idiotic "what about all that snow?" Wow, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erich-pica/climate-ostriches-why-rus_b_680217.html" rel="nofollow">how bad must it get</a> before it becomes truth?</p> Yeah, somehow the Iowa Corps of Engineers managed not to flood Iowa City this year, but who knows how long that’ll last. It wasn’t that long ago that the dam south of Manchester burst. I happened to watch one of the morning shows as I got ready this morning and they referred to this all as “is THIS global warming?” and brought up the idiotic “what about all that snow?” Wow, how bad must it get before it becomes truth?

]]> Comment on the execrable fallacy of predictive markets, or: do I really still have to debunk this shit? by charlie http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/the-execrable-fallacy-of-predictive-markets#comment-384 charlie Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:43:13 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=818#comment-384 <p>This reminds me of a TED talk I just saw</p> <h1><a title="monkey economics" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span id="altHeadline">A monkey economy as irrational as ours</span></a></h1> This reminds me of a TED talk I just saw

A monkey economy as irrational as ours

]]> Comment on Rebranding the Democratic Party by matt http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/rebranding-the-democratic-party#comment-383 matt Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:04:32 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=767#comment-383 <p>Again, thanks! I credit the tremendous, ongoing inspiration provided by nearly every national figure with a (D) after his or her name.</p> <p>Did stickybuffalo ever have an obligatory cafepress store or anything like that? That or spreadshirt. I can provide vector or high-resolution bitmap format art if anyone wants to kill an hour or two making products. :-)</p> Again, thanks! I credit the tremendous, ongoing inspiration provided by nearly every national figure with a (D) after his or her name.

Did stickybuffalo ever have an obligatory cafepress store or anything like that? That or spreadshirt. I can provide vector or high-resolution bitmap format art if anyone wants to kill an hour or two making products. :-)

]]> Comment on Rebranding the Democratic Party by josh http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/rebranding-the-democratic-party#comment-382 josh Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:05:42 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=767#comment-382 <p>these are brilliant! where can i order my t-shirt?</p> these are brilliant! where can i order my t-shirt?

]]> Comment on the execrable fallacy of predictive markets, or: do I really still have to debunk this shit? by josh http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/the-execrable-fallacy-of-predictive-markets#comment-381 josh Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:04:03 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=818#comment-381 <p>d'oh! "economic" damage. fixed.</p> d’oh! “economic” damage. fixed.

]]> Comment on the execrable fallacy of predictive markets, or: do I really still have to debunk this shit? by matt http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/the-execrable-fallacy-of-predictive-markets#comment-379 matt Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=818#comment-379 <p>Welcome back, Josh. Well said.</p> <p>What was the fourth type of massive damage that the market has never balked at?</p> Welcome back, Josh. Well said.

What was the fourth type of massive damage that the market has never balked at?

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