Call me... "Sniffer of Hands"

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I pity my poor hands. My brain is always sending them on suicide missions to the hairiest, sweatiest, most fragrant crevasses of my body, so I can take a constant inventory of my current level of body odor. I wish I lived, worked, slept in a massive hot shower all the time, with sudsy body washes, so I could be permanently squeaky clean. My hands would appreciate it, not to mention my nose.

The Mighty Putty sells itself (with the help of Billy Mays screaming)

Could Billy Mays' beard beat up Chuck Norris' beard?

Mighty Putty took my breath away. Hauling an 18 wheeler! Hanging up a shelf on a brick wall. Making a ghetto coffee mug. Mighty Putty does it all while screaming.

My money's on the shark

Glistening jaws, the shark possesses, devouring the succulent bear. But both would bow before the majesty of the bear holding a shark.

It's only okay to lie to protect someone's feelings

I don't think much of lying for self-protection, but, for me, lying to protect somebody's feelings is the right thing to do.

People who tell the truth when they know it will devastate a person are just being a self-righteous bastard. [ I have done this myself, to my shame. It sucks when somebody pulls a question on you all quick-like, and you don't have time to come up with a proper lie. ]

Why my hip-hop posse would include Voltaire & Snuffleupagus

Voltaire
Voltaire can lay down the snaps, yo. Dry irony and satire.

Snuffleupagus
Snuffie could carry my hip-hop equipment: Auto-Tune, bling, sliderules.

Innovation during Obamanomics

Comment to Will Wilkinson "Why Obamanomics Will Hurt Innovation":

The simplest rebuttal is that any innovation people are unwilling to begin during an Obama administration, will be taken up by others; perhaps less effectively, but still taken up.

When more favorable market conditions come back, those willing to innovate earlier will have the advantage of a head start.  If _anyone_ uses _any_ excuse to sit on their hands instead of innovate, given the finite number of years youthful entrepreneurial blood flows through the veins, they will be punished greatly for their lack of gumption.

"Working hard when market conditions suggest no chance of real success" - What innovators ever violated this rule?

[ An easier argument can be made that over-rewarding innovation in financial leverage instruments bled young & smart workers from other industries, to the detriment of innovation in those industries. ]

Why Public Primary Education? Why not Private or Charter Primary Schools?

Comment posted to Will Wilkinson "What Policy Can Do for Growth and What Politics Won’t"

Wilkinson:

I agree that human capital and physical infrastructure are crucial to growth. I’m even happy to agree that government investment in education has more than paid for itself over the years in added growth. But I also think the evidence points to the idea that returns to public investment in the status quo system of education have diminished to basically nothing. No Democrat is going to do anything to run afoul of their party’s most powerful client in order to promote the deep structural changes needed in primary education to actually improve the quantity and quality of American human capital. So instead we get free money for college, which is Obama’s way of saying “thank you” to the loyal, powerful bloc of Democrats who make their living pouring valuable human capital into nineteen-year-olds by making them pretend to have read Plato and Beloved.

My comment:

Wilkinson:

> ...promote the deep structural changes needed in primary education to actually improve the quantity and quality of American human capital...

But the fact remains that when businesses hire, a person having gone to a private primary school or a charter primary school (as opposed to a public primary school) commands no higher wages.  I hire; the issues affects me personally.  If the private school or charter school had a document certifying modern workforce training to the student (with the ability to test to confirm, and retrain at no cost to the business if the skills are actually below what is certified), I would be pretty damn impressed.  If such a thing exists for private or charter schools, it is well hidden and very scarce.  Until then, why would a business pay a premium for a person who received primary school education at a private or charter school?  And if public school is good enough, how can change be expected to happen?

Dan:

> ...I think far too many people are getting pushed into college...

Business do pay a premium for college educated students.  Again, if there was a form of technical schooling (associate degree) that had some certifying/testing/retraining guarantees for work skills, businesses would be pretty damn impressed, and would hire those people above people with some college education.  I would like to see such resumes.

Larry Winget would set this country straight, sez this Lazy Obese Messxican

The way to break out of laziness and inertia is to get really mad at our current state. Personally, disgusted with what we have allowed ourselves to become.

Less time spent on thinking about entitlements, more time spent on thinking about responsibilities. Then working on the problem, not whining about it. I guess more time reading Larry Winget. And putting that Ol' Baldie's ideas into effect.

I wish I could get a new paint job for domicile

Homeownership is pretty nice, will be moving from a 30 year fixed to 15 year fixed. The front of the house is pretty shabby; grubby lawn, and a need for paint (also a huge stack of paver bricks I am too lazy to move to back yard, surprised the city doesn't fine my ass). Painting your house? I can't recommend Vietnamese handyman. Good for the first 75% of the job, but that is all you will pay for, and that is all you will get.

Paint bubbles! Paint peeling!

My handiness (or lack thereof)

I installed a ceiling fan in my kitchen. That is about my limit. My Hypervigilance [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervigilance ] makes any project I under-go exhausting for me, and mind-boggling for anyone watching.