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explorer/gentleman.
I help make the Vimeo
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recently spent over three hours looking at wallpaper on and off of design*sponge.
I’ve narrowed my choice down to this one for my bathroom.
starting to scan negatives again. its been an age. (via)
thankful for the ability to be thankful today.
I like trains
Zune Paint (via Vimeo)
just got on Twitter to respond to the people.
Searching “Vimeo” on Twitter is very interesting.
Getting robbed
After Citi, $4.6165 trillion of our dollars have been spent bailing out banks. (This before any job-creating stimulous.) Compare the infuriating abuse of our tax-payer dollars to other massive public expenditures throughout history.
• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billionTOTAL: $3.92 trillion
vs.
$4.6165 trillion on banks who won’t even accept oversight. We’re getting robbed, and nobody (besides Beltway insiders, hyperactive bloggers and economic wonks) is paying attention.