He said 'Methuselah!'

I was just reading an article on 40- and 50-year mortgage loans, which the reporter at one point called "Methuselah loans." Even if you get the reference, there's probably only two people (maybe three) who read this that understand why this amuses me far, far more than it ever should.

Yep. 'Nother slow day at the office. In short, the software we were loading yesterday is corrupted, so I'm in limbo until something moves.

I lost again.

'To know about the giggle loop, is to become part of the giggle loop.'

Public Service Announcement

I think we're all aware enough to ovoid most phishing scams, but This is just different enough that I thought I'd make note of it. Instead of getting a sketchy email telling you to follow a link and enter your information on a website, you'll get a sketchy email telling you to call a phone number and enter your information there.

As noted, I think we're all fairly safe from this sort of thing (simply by virtue of the sort of social circles I find myself in), but people get taken in all the time and if nothing else this can be passed on to people who know.

Real Heroes

I like This article.

Next up to bat...

This article offers an alternate reasoning to the pay gap from the standard "the world is prejudiced against women." In short, it says that women will charge less in certain circunstances, taking into consideration the needs of clients and associates, where as men simply don't care -- an oil change costs $43 regardless of who you are.

I admit i'm biased toward this answer because it reinforces two of my core beliefs: firstly, that (in general) The World is indiferent at worst -- no one is out to ruin your life. Second, that men and women (in general) function in fundamentally different ways, and function so across all fascets of life -- women (in general) are simply always more sensitive and concerned with the relationships between people, and men are rather block-headedly based in the hard facts that it takes $43 to make a profit on an oil change.

America's Drug Lords

This article reminded me of a quote I heard once, something about how the only difference between buisnessman and criminal (or maybe it was 'right and wrong,' or 'legal and illegal' or something like that) was government sanction.