Thanksgiving 2009. My first dinner party. This was the final spread. Mmm, mmm, good!
Thanksgiving 2009. My first gumbo! This one is a turkey gumbo with shrimp and sausage.
Love their minds. Totally blew me away. We need more labs.
Dwell Presents The Future of Driving
San Francisco–based industrial designers Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers sit down with Dwell’s Editor-in-Chief, Sam Grawe, to talk about their thoughts on the future of transportation.
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50 Cent: Turn Shit Into Sugar
Via MZ. REPORTThe following is an excerpt from The 50th Law, adapted for HuffPost.
“Every negative situation contains the possibility for something positive, an opportunity. It is how you look at it that matters. Your lack of resources can be an advantage, forcing you to be more inventive with the little that you have. Losing a battle can allow you to frame yourself as the sympathetic underdog. Do not let fears make you wait for a better moment or become conservative. If there are circumstances you cannot control, make the best of them. It is the ultimate alchemy to transform all such negatives into advantages and power.
Events in life are not negative or positive. They are completely neutral. The universe does not care about your fate; it is indifferent to the violence that may hit you or to death itself. Things merely happen to you. It is your mind that chooses to interpret them as negative or positive. And because you have layers of fear that dwell deep within you, your natural tendency is to interpret temporary obstacles in your path as something larger—setbacks and crises.”
We will have an advertising strategy. You will see that from us in the future. It will be fascinating, non-traditional, and people will love it.
–Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter
RealTime CrunchUp: Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
(via fred-wilson) Via Fred Wilson Dot VCThe Bible that I read says that God did not send Jesus to condemn the world but to save it… it was because “God so loved the world.” That is the God I know, and I long for others to know. I did not choose to devote my life to Jesus because I was scared to death of hell or because I wanted crowns in heaven… but because he is good. For those of you who are on a sincere spiritual journey, I hope that you do not reject Christ because of Christians.
–Nicely said. Though I believe that regardless of your reason to know God, God will reveal himself to you as long as you come to Him. So go to Him. Just as you are, whatever your reasons. And PLEASE don’t let the Christians stop you on your way.
Shane Claiborne - Letter to Non-Believers by Shane Claibourne - Esquire
0.8950 is SERIOUS resistance. Look how many attempts were made at on the way down as it served as the upper boundary of an area of support then.
Now yesterday’s rally failed to break the 0.8950 price level and exhausted at a high of 0.8947. Technically, no real cause for concern as the pair is still consolidating. Fundamentally, if, in fact, the risk trade is causing the EUR to surge then this rally could continue. This time though, the risk trade is a little different. Rather than being driven by poor economic data, risk is being fuled by the rally in gold, oil, and other commodities that is giving traders the appetite to buy riskier assets. In fact, the USD continues to weaken despite poor US economic news that would have usually driven investors to safe-haven assets. On the other hand, the BoE just keeps getting more and more dovish. The minutes revealed a discussion on cutting interest rates. WTF?! I don’t see how the GPB can rally even in the long term until the BoE takes steps towards tightening monetary policy. I’m actually targeting 0.9000 for this currency pair. Price action at this major whole number and psychological level will be very telling.
As you know, trade what you see, not what I think.
I liked the movie. It really is a good film and it is funny too. The voodoo in the movie was a little too scary for the kids but I’m sure they’ll come around once they see it a few times. A great cast with some surprise names in there. I agree with Keith David - the film is indeed historical. “The Princess and the Frog” is Disney’s first Black princess. I have to admit I’ve never noticed. Terrence Howard makes the point in the video that all little girls related to Snow White. Nevertheless, it is interesting to consider that in its 86 year history Disney has cast an Arab and Native American princess before casting a Black one.
Bet you can guess how fly my night was last night. I wore these to BlackTree TV’s Access Styles Fashion Show & Quarter Billion Views Party last night in downtown LA. Great event for the company that created a buzz in the streets of LA. The revolution is being televised!
Yesterday’s fall in price breached the 50% Fibo of the larger move from 1.6260 to 1.6843. Technically, this up trend is over. I am expecting more downside with price moving to 1.65 and possibly even reverse completely to 1.6250. Fundamentally, BoE Governor King pretty much sealed the deal telling markets that a weak GBP is good for exports and that quantitative easing is good for the economy. Sterling dropped like a stone from those comments. A market environment with technicals and fundamentals lined up gives the short pound trade lots of confidence. I’m short GBP.
But as usual, trade what you see not what I think.
Watch 1.6700. It sits just beyond the 50% Fibonacci retracement level of today’s slide down to 1.6600. After the tremendous drop in prices when Fitch’s threatened to downgrade the UK’s AAA rating, prices look to have found support at the 1.6600 whole number and bounced to a high of 1.6696. Price has already breached the 50% Fibo level.
If prices hold above 1.6700, the rally has resumed.
I’m proud of this article. It took me 3 days and the final version is so far from the initial draft. My HS English teacher always said that was a good thing.
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
– Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog (via FREE written by @chr1sa)About Me
I am a woman born to Nigerian parents, walking with God, interested in art, fashion, design yet passionate about economics, digital media, and technology.At 30, I started this site to be a collection of all that and then some forming an eclectic collection of real information.
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