Ideapad

Part of me thinks, ooh! Buy Berkshire Hathaway in the downturn! But then I think, is ANY stock safe these days? Also interesting: BRK has not particularly outperformed the stock market since the end of the dotcom bubble, although I suspect that has a lot to do with the speculative nature of the market and not the underperformance of BRK's holdings

Fun list from waxy (of course). Rush remains my favorite

"My '76 Honda Civic CVCC was peppy even at highway speeds, often got over 50mpg, and met all emissions standards for the time without a catalytic converter." Whenever I read about fuel economy I keep thinking about the exact same thing. Honda had a Civic HF in the 1980s that got 47 mpg city. Why can't the automakers dumb down their engines a bit, find efficiency instead of power, and sell 50mpg cars? I like speed as much as anyone, but does every car on the market need to go 0-60 in under 6 seconds?

I heart Improv Everywhere

Great, great, great album review, and by "album" I mean "15-year explosion of finality"