http://www.richard-careaga.com not having to think about what you are going to say when you can decently interrupt Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/419#comment-9 admin Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:43:09 +0000 http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=419#comment-9 Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. GS and MS understood what happened to Admiral Lehman. Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. GS and MS understood what happened to Admiral Lehman.

]]> http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/418#comment-8 admin Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:10:13 +0000 http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=418#comment-8 Well, 'par' is perhaps jumping to conclusions based on scant evidence. If, as rumored, it is to be a reverse auction, the opening bid might be par since, for most of this stuff it's single seller, single buyer. Then it's a limbo dance where the seller keeps lowering its asking price until it discovers what the Treasury is willing to pay. (How they decide has to be necessarily resistant to reverse engineering.) But the penalty for guessing is that each new turn down sets a lower floor. Treasury is going to have to explain a rationale for how it is going to do an orderly wind down before people can estimate how this affects each type of entity with embedded losses. Well, ‘par’ is perhaps jumping to conclusions based on scant evidence. If, as rumored, it is to be a reverse auction, the opening bid might be par since, for most of this stuff it’s single seller, single buyer. Then it’s a limbo dance where the seller keeps lowering its asking price until it discovers what the Treasury is willing to pay. (How they decide has to be necessarily resistant to reverse engineering.) But the penalty for guessing is that each new turn down sets a lower floor. Treasury is going to have to explain a rationale for how it is going to do an orderly wind down before people can estimate how this affects each type of entity with embedded losses.

]]> http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/415#comment-7 rcareaga Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:59:06 +0000 http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=415#comment-7 Shouldn't that be Rod *Serling*? Shouldn’t that be Rod *Serling*?

]]> http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/267#comment-5 markcareaga Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:11:44 +0000 http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=267#comment-5 very nice! very nice!

]]> http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/373#comment-4 markcareaga Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:28:25 +0000 http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=373#comment-4 Interesting ... of course, I barely ever used a manual typewriter, reared as I was on the IBM Selectric. I'd always thought the post-period double-space rule was more about legibility when using monospaced fonts than anything else. Similar to the rule of using a double-hyphen with both preceding and succeeding spaces in lieu of an em dash, which wasn't available on the old typewriters. -mc Interesting … of course, I barely ever used a manual typewriter, reared as I was on the IBM Selectric. I’d always thought the post-period double-space rule was more about legibility when using monospaced fonts than anything else. Similar to the rule of using a double-hyphen with both preceding and succeeding spaces in lieu of an em dash, which wasn’t available on the old typewriters. -mc

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