Stuff to look into later: 2013

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Commissions and Artists Underpricing themselves

http://artist-refs.tumblr.com/post/61549107145/painted-bees-artist-confessions-really-low

Monday, September 30, 2013

slang terms from the 20's

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/59-quick-slang-phrases-from-the-1920s-we-should-start-using-again/

Get ready to “know your onions,” readers. If you’ve ever wanted to talk like characters from an old movie or the folks from The Great Gatsby, now’s your chance. For the twenties lovers among us, here are 59 of the era’s best slang phrases. Now you just have to practice talking really, really fast.

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1. Ankle: to walk

2. “Applesauce!”: “Horsefeathers!”

3. “Bank’s closed!”: what you tell someone to stop making out

4. Bearcat: a lively, spirited woman, possibly with a fiery streak

5. Berries: like “bee’s knees,” denotes that something is good, desirable or pleasing. “That sounds like berries to me!”

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6. Bimbo: refers to a macho man

7. Bluenose: term for a prude or individual deemed to be a killjoy

8. Bubs: a woman’s boobs

9. “Bushwa!”: “Bullshit!”

10. “Butt me!”: “I would like a cigarette.”

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11. Cancelled stamp: a shy, lonely female, the type one would describe as a “wallflower”

12. Cash: a smooch

13. Cake-eater: in the 1920’s refers to a “ladies’ man”; later, slang for homosexual

14. Cheaters: Glasses or bifocals

15. Choice bit of calico: a desirable woman

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16. Darb: something deemed wonderful or splendid, similar to “berries”

17. Dewdropper: like lollygagger, a slacker who sits around all day and does nothing, often unemployed

18. “Don’t take any wooden nickels!”: “Don’t do anything dumb!”

19. Dumb Dora: an unintelligent woman

20. Egg: a person who leads an absurdly wealthy, extravagant lifestyle (see: Gatsby’s “West Egg”)

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21. Four-flusher: someone who mooches off the money of others in order to feign wealth

22. Gasper: cigarette, “fag” (also of the 1920s)

23. Giggle water: liquor, alcoholic beverage

24. “Go chase yourself!”: “Get out of here!”

25. Handcuff: engagement ring

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26. Half-seas over: shitfaced

27. Hayburner: a car with poor gas-mileage, a guzzler

28. Hotsy-totsy: attractive, pleasing to the eye

29. Icy mitt: rejection from the object of one’s affection, as in: “He got the icy mitt.”

30. Iron one’s shoelaces: to excuse oneself for the restroom

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31. Jake: okay, fine, as in “Don’t worry, everything’s jake.”

32. Jorum of skee: a swig of alcohol, particularly hard liquor

33. Know your onions: to know what’s up or what’s going on

34. “Let’s blouse!”: “Let’s blow this popsicle stand!”

35. Manacle: Wedding ring

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36. Mazuma: Dollar bills, cash, money

37. Mrs. Grundy: an uptight or very straight-laced individual

38. Noodle juice: tea.

39. “Now you’re on the trolley!”: “Now you’ve gotten it right!”

40. Oliver Twist: an extremely good dancer.

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41. On a toot: on a bender

42. Ossified: drunk

43. Quilt: an alcoholic beverage that keeps you warm

44. Panther piss: whiskey, particularly homemade whiskey

45. Petting pantry: a cinema or movie theatre

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46. “Phonus balonus!”: “That’s nonsense!” or “That’s horseshit!”

47. Pull a Daniel Boone: to upchuck

48. Reuben: a hick or redneck

49. Rub: a dance party for college or high school students

50. Sheba – someone’s girlfriend; or a sexually desirable woman

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51. Sinker: a doughnut

52. Sockdollager: an event or action of great importance

53. Spifflicated: inebriated

54. “Tell it to Sweeney!”: what you say when you believe something to be untrue; “Tell it to someone who would buy that!”

55. Tomato: a woman

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56. Upstage: arrogant, snobby

57. Whoopee: to have a good time, “make whoopee”

58. Wurp: wet blanket or person seen as a buzzkill (see: Debbie Downer)

59. Zozzled: shitfaced TC mark

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Using Twitter

http://socialtriggers.com/twitter-tips/

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Larry Smith, Entrepreneurship, Economics

http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/larry-smith

http://lwsmith.ca/

Larry's TED Talk on "Why you fail to have a great career"

Interview highlights on entrepreneurship

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Mathematics for the Practical Man - George Howe

http://books.google.com/books?id=KUBpCUr5jC8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

See also:
Arithmatic for the Practical Man
Algebra for the Practical Man
Trigonometry for the Practical Man
Calculus for the Practical Man

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Making your own dyes

http://barefootshepherdess.typepad.com/barefoot_shepherdess/2010/01/dyeing-with-harlequin-glorybower.html

Friday, April 19, 2013

Financial Stuff

http://dansfera.com/2013/04/

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/wallets.html

http://internetbusinessmastery.com/podcast/

People to look up:

ben graham investing

thomas murphy warren buffett

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Financial Samurai

http://www.financialsamurai.com/2012/11/01/investing-in-peer-to-peer-lending-with-prosper-com/

http://www.financialsamurai.com/2012/04/16/achieve-financial-freedom-slice/

http://www.creditcardassist.com/blog/financial-samurai-best-of-the-best-blogger-series-14088/

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/18/business/la-fi-perfin18-2010apr18

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Himalayan Honeysuckle

http://www.arthurleej.com/a-himhoney.html
Himalaya Honeysuckle; Leycesteria formosa Wall.
Honeysuckle Family; CAPRIFOLIACEÆ

A plant, like a vice president, can be handsome but useless. Good looks alone may be food for the eye, or soul food, but our meaner, more mundane appetites require some grosser substance; on beauty alone we'd starve to death. Should we not have our plants and eat them too? The most useful plants are both beautiful and edible --at the very least fragrant.
Himalaya Honeysuckle is a fine example of this. Not rare for lack of merit, it is rare despite its merit. When we eat commercial chocolate we ingest considerable sugar and fat, and pay dearly for it. Himalaya Honeysuckle berries offer chocolate-flavored vitamin pills!
Of course, when we think of honeysuckles, visions of fragrant flowering shrubs, coral-colored berries, and climbing vines, all may come to mind. Such honeysuckles are of the genus Lonicera. Three species are native in Seattle and several exotics are commonly grown here.
Himalaya Honeysuckle, however, is Leycesteria formosa. William Leycester was a judge in Bengal; formosa refers to its beauty, not to its occurrence on the island of Taiwan. It is also known as Himalaya- or Flowering Nutmeg. Though closely related to Lonicera honeysuckles, it differs in technical details. From northwestern India to southwestern China it grows, one of several species in the genus. Western gardeners have cultivated the shrub since 1824. Though a beautiful thing it is still rare as can be in our area. Why it is so rare is anyone's guess.
A few years ago I had never heard of it. A neighbor showed me a strange plant that had sprung up wild in his tomato patch. "What," he inquired, "is this?" I said "Beats me. Why not wait and see? Let it grow." It turned out to be a Himalaya Honeysuckle. Evidently a bird had dropped a seed. Offspring from my neighbor's plant are now reseeding themselves in my garden.
The best patch of the plant I know of is in a moist, sunny ravine at the Berkeley Botanic Garden: lush, rank, gorgeous growth thriving in the warmth of California. Locally, our best planting may be at Woodland Park Zoo, south of the Primate House.
The plant is a clump-forming shrub of slender, gracefully arching cane-like stems, of the same soothing green color as the very abundant leaves. The overall shape is that of a vase, narrow near the ground and wide-flaring upwards, then dipping down with the branch-ends terminated by dangling flowers and berry clusters. It is essentially evergreen, though winter cold forces some leaves to drop. Indeed, severe Arctic weather kills the tender tips of the canes. Spring, however, witnesses a resurgent burst of sturdy growth, and the plant is soon the picture of robust, elegant beauty! A rare combination!
In midsummer it commences to bloom. The creamy-white flowers are attractively backed by burgundy bracts. Deep brown, soft, juicy berries of rich chocolate-caramel flavor ensue. Their season is approximately from late July through early October.
In average soil, with little or no watering, Himalaya Honeysuckle grows 4 to 6 feet tall. The addition of a humus mulch and some irrigation brings it to 8 or more feet. It seems to do best with moist roots, and its leaves exposed to much sunshine. However, it will grow in a wide variety of soil and light conditions. Finicky it is not. As far as I've seen it is pest and disease free.
If it sounds perfect, it's not. The berries, delicious though they are, ripen a few at a time, which is great for nibbling some daily, but makes the prospect of a fresh, chocolate-flavored pie only a fond dream. The berries, also, are so soft and delicate that they need to be eaten right at their peak of ripeness, lest they shrivel and drop. Another imperfection is that the flowers are inodorous.
In short, Himalaya Honeysuckle is handsome, easily grown, tasty, and rare enough to be the ideal conversation piece.

(Originally published in the November 1989 Seattle Tilth newsletter, along with an illustration by Annie Figliola. Since 1989, Himalaya Honeysuckle has become readily available at local nurseries.)