Prediction Five: The use of silly numbers to make our lives miserable will only increase.
We already have credit scores and BMIs. Many people check their credit scores constantly, and try to improve them. With health care coming under increased government control, more harassment of those with high BMI is inevitable. Both [...]
Prediction Four: We’re not going to come out of this recession until granite countertops go completely out of style, and cheery colors come back into style. Which will not be any time soon; the current color trends are still too funereal.
(My past posts on granite and the feng shui of granite and its [...]
MaxedOutMama has a very good analysis of the eventual consequences of the health care bill. She thinks it’s likely to actually pass. This is the best bad news I’ve heard in a while: life expectancies are bound to fall under such rotten public policy. Retirement age will be up near 80 [...]
(Here I am thinking mostly of the next five to ten years; a lot depends on what happens with health care reform.)
Prediction Three-A: The childbirth scene will become increasingly polarized; the c-section rate will continue to rise (at least until government takes over health care and starts slashing costs), but so will the natural [...]
(Remember that predictions can be wrong!!)
I should have said with Prediction One that I am predicting things I expect to happen in the next fifty years; roughly in my expected life span.
Prediction Two is that our government will compile a DNA database of the entire population. TSIAH! TSIAH!
I couldn’t help but notice that the Census short form lumps all “white” people together, and all “black” people together, while the brown and yellow and red people get all sorts of finely divided racial categories. My real race is “Viking Polack Hun”, and I think that culture matters a whole lot more [...]
(OLC invented Steps 1-3 all by herself.)
Step 1: Obtain 1 bag large pearl tapioca.
Step 2: Obtain 1 bag granola.
Step 3: Mix thoroughly. You now have a mixture: substances combined so that they still retain their individual identities.
Step 4: Now, how might you separate the two again? Picking out [...]
Reading the local newspapers is always interesting. In the last one, there was a story about a guy starting up a hot dog stand or some such thing in a neighboring suburban town.
Points of interest to me:
1. He asked permission from the City Council first (there being no existing ordinances governing hot dog [...]
Coffee Tea Books and Me has a good series up about taking steps off the financial grid, by learning how to do things yourself. Since they kind of relate to a series of predictions that I was planning to post, I thought I might as well get started.
First, a warning about predictions in general: [...]
…that we have more books per square foot in our apartment than our local library does.