May 21 2013
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writing about lumpy investment
Unable to avoid having it all sound like Lumpy Space Princess in my head.
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so it’s like 10 degrees and drizzling here
Remember that whole global warming thing? That would be super desirable if it really kicked in right about now.
At least it’s supposed to be a bit warmer and sunnier in Victoria this weekend.
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cowboykhaleesi asked: "nt" in Greek is pronounced "d" so the transliteration doesn't work. Lepto was used with the drachma as well.
Oooh, that’s actually good to know! Thanks. It looks like Cyprus uses σεντ, but maybe they have different pronunciation rules for Greek (or maybe they just wanted it to transliterate to “cent” regardless of pronunciation).
The eurozone is usually pretty strict about this sort of thing; they had a big fight with Bulgaria about the spelling of “euro” in Bulgarian which was eventually resolved in Bulgaria’s favour.
Really the best part here is that at one point the eurozone was publicly worrying more about how to transliterate the name of their currency than they were about the massive current account imbalances and regulatory laxity-fueled real estate bubbles and structural deficits.
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Hey so somehow I ended up with a Greek eurocent coin! It’s a little smaller than a North American penny but also pretty copper-y, and it has a boat on it, and the writing says “1 CENT” in Greek (because apparently they use λεπτό, which means “minute”, instead of the transliteration σεντ).
I haven’t posted as much about Greece and the eurozone lately because there hasn’t been much exciting news - but the TL;DR is that investors are enthusiastic but their enthusiasm hasn’t trickled down to the rest of the economy. Pretty much everyone’s still unemployed or unpaid or poor and banks aren’t lending and more austerity is coming.
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Today Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, announced a multi-year partnership with Teaching Strategies, the educational company that publishes The Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD.
Learn more at http://sesameworkshop.org/school
Very cool!
These are big correlations, for sure. But it’s not clear that they’re causally linked. Parental incomes have a bigger impact than anything else on both early childhood education and long-term education/labour market outcomes, so I’m going to suggest that the story here is that kids from wealthier families receive better early childhood education and then go on to be better-educated and richer themselves.
Not that Sesame Street isn’t awesome. But yeah these are not helpful statistics at all.
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finally done with everything I wanted to get finished this weekend
Usually I set my goals pretty unreasonably, so it’s rare that I actually kind of hit them. Possibly because I had a super chill long weekend? Now I just need to write coherent emails to send everything off to professors and I can go cuddle with my boyfriend. Domestication has basically set in, I guess.
May 20 2013
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joesquared replied to your post: hey so I saw Star Trek last night
I feel fortunate b/c I did not see anything regarding the whole Khan casting thing.
Okay going behind a cut again to discuss this.
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hey so I saw Star Trek last night
And I have feelings on it! Everything’s under a cut because I guess potentially spoilers. But I’m tagging this post with everything you might have blocked, just in case.
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okay yeah a straight cis guy wearing bright green nail polish with 62k notes just showed up on my dashboard
With everyone fawning over him for being so ~brave~ and ~quirky~ because oh my goodness what challenges he must have to face with his love of whimsy.
Unable to deal. Signing off for now.
