Paul's Journal

01/10/2010 20:08 #50791

European News That Suprised Me
Category: web

I saw in the news today that China just edged out Germany as the world's top exporter

I seriously had no idea that Germany performed so well in the world market. How can they with the high standard of living, social welfare, baggage from WWI and WWII along with the lack of natural resources. You would think they would have lost all their productive competitiveness as America did.

According to wikipedia:

Germany is the world's top exporter with $1,498 trillion exported in 2008 (Eurozone countries are included) and generates a trade surplus of 165 billion.

As a side note, who knew the prime minister of the Ukraine was so hot. She wears her hair like this a lot. Here is her wikipedia page

metalpeter - 01/12/10 19:58
Well I guess the Sahm-wow guy was right. Plus they do looks of beer, and beer related stuff like octoberfest stuff and food and great cars and great guns and then people collect the Nazi Stuff. Then I'm guessing there is a lot of dance music and S&M sex stuff. But I would have never guessed they where #1.

mike - 01/11/10 22:18
i was surprised too and read about it a little. I guess Germany makes high price items such as the machines that go to China to make the cheap stuff

libertad - 01/11/10 13:49
They make good vacuums.

vincent - 01/11/10 10:04
Wow, she kind of looks like my Ex-Wife!

zobar - 01/11/10 09:03
The Ukrainian Power Braids - (e:dragonlady7) does her hair like that sometimes, although it takes a lot more clips. We thought it was traditional but I guess she invented it? I don't know how you can run a country with everyone asking you about your hair.

- Z

tinypliny - 01/10/10 20:23
Their old manufacturing plants still make quality industrial parts. Many Indian industries prefer machine components from Germany as compared to China.

Wow, fun hair!

01/10/2010 19:01 #50790

Garret county spiral cut ham

If you like ham on the bone, this is the best. Its also free of
preservatives, hormones and antibiotics and nitrates. I bought it at
the coop but it comes from garret county farms

It was really expensive last week at like $5.99/lb or ~$52 for an 8 lb
ham. That same ham is now only $2.99/lb at $25 total. 8lbs is so
much ham, you have enough to eat for a week, plus make soup with the
bone and you can still freeze half. Its totally cooked and has a
delicious smoky maple glaze so it's also no work minus figuring out
how to eat all that ham. I mean that's competive with deli slices ham
prices and this is so much tastier and healthier.

jason - 01/12/10 11:22
Himay, I'm betting you can go to the coop and get that price without being a member.

himay - 01/12/10 11:18
Is that price available to the non-members as well? Looks like it from the sticker, but I just wanted to check!

I might have to go pick one up tonight; I haven't made a ham in a while.

tinypliny - 01/10/10 20:25
You are a big Coop consumer.

01/09/2010 18:11 #50782

Our gas bill

You think it would be crazy expensive but with insulated walls, plastic wrapped
windows, closed doors and keeping it not very hot we manage to get the bill down to $230 and that real not estimated.

matthew - 01/11/10 17:00
we keep the most of the rooms at 60 except the rooms we use the most. The upstairs den, where we spend most of our time, is usually around 70. The tortoise room is kept a little bit warmer than 70. Some rooms we don't heat at all like the bedrooms on the third floor. So it's not like we are living in 60 degree temps all winter long. That would be horrible!

jenks - 01/11/10 16:16
I know it's not nice to brag, but... MAN I could not live with my heat at 60.
Fortunately, my heat is included in my (astronomical) rent, so I crank it as much as I want. My thermostat claims it's set at 78. Which can not be right. Because while it is nice and warm in here, there is no way it's 78. That's like tropical.

matthew - 01/11/10 10:58
I'm so proud!! Let's see if we can get next months bill down to $200.

libertad - 01/10/10 10:49
WOW! That is incredible. My last apartment I got a bill for $450 for one month and that was with plastic on the windows and running space heaters in the rooms to keep warm. I was so cold in that place and am so happy I don't have to worry about gas bills anymore.

paul - 01/09/10 22:22
We had it at 55 night, 60 during the day but we had a portable heater in the den.

uncutsaniflush - 01/09/10 22:01
I am very impressed. I've got plastic on 18 of our windows. And our daytime thermostat setting is 66 and nighttime is 60. I wish our gas bill would be 233.

01/09/2010 13:28 #50780

What did I tell you?
Category: web

about running with chopsticks.

The article this came from had other weird xrays

tinypliny - 01/10/10 20:26
YIKES, that child's sense of smell is gone to the chopsticks.

01/09/2010 00:50 #50775

Buffalo tastes

I spent all day programming. At the end of the day I just wanted a
hamburger. Buffalo meat will have to do.