tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post5583164960661243004..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: They Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil, Except When They Don'tSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-48468684377521790942009-05-14T00:10:00.000-04:002009-05-14T00:10:00.000-04:00I really think the worm is going to snap rather th...I really think the worm is going to snap rather than turn.<br /><br />Seventies, indeed. I've been telling my family and friends that it feels an awful lot like 1973 for a while now.<br /><br />The real killer is going to be that quite a few tens of millions of people are going to realize all at once that their world is over and that their government and most especially The One are manifestly the problem and nothing remotely resembling a solution.<br /><br />Carter was bad enough in that he attempted to convince Americans that malaise was our normal state.<br /><br />Obama will be orders of magnitude worse. He is a stone Marxist running a coup. The congress is too busy running like hell to carve out scraps before the collapse to pay any attention to The One...<br /><br />I have to chuckle sometimes. I thought that I'd seen my World Changing Moment when the Berlin wall went down.<br /><br />If I had only known.TmjUtahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479506083401061662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-79179852131668218982009-05-13T23:50:00.000-04:002009-05-13T23:50:00.000-04:00Don't re-judge too quickly, MSL... I don't actuall...Don't re-judge too quickly, MSL... I don't actually drink beer, which is why I'd direct my friends to the keg rather than attack it myself!PatHMVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542719040606654134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-52042377773729411512009-05-13T18:07:00.000-04:002009-05-13T18:07:00.000-04:00Sipp,
Your last two paragraphs are inspired. I’ve...Sipp,<br /><br />Your last two paragraphs are inspired. I’ve been feeling those bizarre headwinds too. As a fellow survivor of the '70's, you are correct - they aren't going to like it. Not one bit.<br /><br />Regarding your “challenging physiognomy” achieved whilst “fencing in Heidelberg as a youth” – when someone yells “En Garde!” put the axe down Eugene.Country Squirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05500263168753094352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-81095635054275299952009-05-13T16:04:00.000-04:002009-05-13T16:04:00.000-04:00I have misjudged you PatHMV. I expected a diatribe...I have misjudged you PatHMV. I expected a diatribe on the many complex choices facing the beer drinker in such a scenario but you have taken the pragmatists choice in electing to finish the keg off before someone else does.<br />Your point regarding using simplistic graphs like this to prove a point when there is often hidden data that would further clarify is well taken.MSLhttp://www.westsound-modern.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-54340081643382111462009-05-13T14:48:00.000-04:002009-05-13T14:48:00.000-04:00MSL... I'd probably mention that lamentable fact t...MSL... I'd probably mention that lamentable fact to one of my friends who drinks beer, in case they wanted to top off his or her cup before the keg emptied entirely...<br /><br />Ed, there's another, non-circular way to parse my sentence, but in truth I should have used more punctuation to make it clearer. I'll check out Darrell Huff's work.PatHMVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542719040606654134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-52637787522291517352009-05-13T14:44:00.000-04:002009-05-13T14:44:00.000-04:00This is a good call, learning from Tufte "to learn...This is a good call, learning from Tufte "to learn to think more clearly to study the works of Edward Tufte, who provides excellent warnings about the dangers of "chart junk" and the selective presentation of data."<br /><br />Being in my 20's throughout the '70's I learned about these junk graphs from Mr. Darrell Huff, 'How to Lie with Statistics'. It is the 'GEE-WHIZ GRAPH'. Telling a lie with the truth.Ed onWestSlopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09852314242739833333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-49729122657805132252009-05-13T14:43:00.000-04:002009-05-13T14:43:00.000-04:00This is not very rock and roll,but there is a whol...This is not very rock and roll,but there is a whole history of coffee over-supply and undersupply shot through with severe frosts in Brazil all detailed on the website of the International Coffee Organisation.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-31612279075242306062009-05-13T08:01:00.000-04:002009-05-13T08:01:00.000-04:00Mr. Sippican,
Cool...you're exactly like I've ima...Mr. Sippican,<br /><br />Cool...you're exactly like I've imagined you.Apis Melliflorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109379329293289328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-21213162251377602692009-05-12T22:36:00.000-04:002009-05-12T22:36:00.000-04:00I've got my Apis Melliflora/daughter hooked on you...I've got my Apis Melliflora/daughter hooked on your meanderings of wit and wisdom. I fully concur with her comment today!<br /><br />The 70's again, heaven forbid. Ugly clothes, decor and architecture not to mention inflation.The Queen Veehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155350213939987094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-23891898507562032992009-05-12T19:50:00.000-04:002009-05-12T19:50:00.000-04:00I'm keeping my head down and slogging on,what more...I'm keeping my head down and slogging on,what more can I do? as for the seventies revisited...they won't make me wear platform shoes will they?Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-86678194228198418082009-05-12T19:49:00.000-04:002009-05-12T19:49:00.000-04:00all right Sippican, in regards your last comment. ...all right Sippican, in regards your last comment. brilliant. that should be on the fount page.<br />leonLeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02288771971363819090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-87322553565115257752009-05-12T18:24:00.000-04:002009-05-12T18:24:00.000-04:00Apis- In person, I'm taller than I am on the phone...Apis- In person, I'm taller than I am on the phone. And I'm louder than I am on the Intertunnel. <br /><br />My veritable euphonium of a voice is tempered somewhat by my challenging physiognomy. I was disfigured while fencing in Heidelberg as a youth, and I have a glass eye and a porcelain nose. When you hear me speak about matters various and sundry in person, you'll often also hear my glass eye as it begins to thrum as I reach the height of my perorations, and my porcelain nose will often begin to whistle a dulcet tone to accompany the rhythms of my eye. I'm told it's quite a striking audio/visual feast. <br /><br />For the life of me I can't understand how I was injured so severely, as it was a split rail fence.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-88177934101284341392009-05-12T17:51:00.000-04:002009-05-12T17:51:00.000-04:00A quick quiz.
How would PatHMV react at a party i...A quick quiz. <br />How would PatHMV react at a party if you told him the keg was almost empty?MSLhttp://www.westsound-modern.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-64956534455988027632009-05-12T17:37:00.000-04:002009-05-12T17:37:00.000-04:00I encourage all with the desire to learn to think ...I encourage all with the desire to learn to think more clearly to study the works of <A HREF="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/" REL="nofollow">Edward Tufte</A>, who provides excellent warnings about the dangers of "chart junk" and the selective presentation of data.<br /><br />In this chart, the graphic artist has made 3 choices which make this data seem much worse than it is. <br /><br />First, by starting the Y axis at $1.20 instead of 0, it exaggerates the amount of increase. Visually, the highest price point appears to be about an 8-fold increase from the low price point, but in fact the price has not even doubled in that time period.<br /><br />Second, the chart only contains about 17 months worth of data. Much more is available (the price of coffee is the subject of many studies on commodities), and could easily be displayed in that space, to provide greater context.<br /><br />Third (and this is an assumption), the graph appears to use nominal dollars rather than "real" (i.e., inflation-adjusted) dollars. Because of inflation, most commodities show steady price increases, but the cost really hasn't changed. It's just that the purchasing power of the dollar has lessened as a result of inflation. Now, inflation is not a HUGE factor in a 17-month time frame (<A HREF="http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/" REL="nofollow">inflation for 2008 was at 3.8%</A>), but that is significant, especially in a chart like this where the vertical scale is so exaggerated.PatHMVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542719040606654134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-13724970931604873972009-05-12T15:53:00.000-04:002009-05-12T15:53:00.000-04:00You are fantastic. I wonder what you're like in pe...You are fantastic. I wonder what you're like in person. Do you talk the same way you write? When's your book of social wit and satire hitting the bookstores? Did I say how fantastic you are?Apis Melliflorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109379329293289328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-30129175121778136742009-05-12T13:30:00.000-04:002009-05-12T13:30:00.000-04:00I maxed out at age 4 in '79, and I am guessing I a...I maxed out at age 4 in '79, and I am guessing I am a far sight better off for it. The pictures of my folks are enough to scare me off, though there is something comforting and engaging about my uber-skinny, fully-haired pop with an Old Milwaukee in one hand and me in the other.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673842520123958712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-27670936645137476132009-05-12T13:13:00.000-04:002009-05-12T13:13:00.000-04:00Maybe you should nix the classic furniture designs...Maybe you should nix the classic furniture designs and start building that chunky floor height stuff with the burned and wire-brushed finish and multi-colored velvet overstuffed pillows that was so popular in the Carter years.westsoundmodernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458026250010442569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-86916764711491157622009-05-12T12:43:00.000-04:002009-05-12T12:43:00.000-04:00Oh God! Not the 70s again. I spent the whole dec...Oh God! Not the 70s again. I spent the whole decade working on being stupid, selfish and immature. Am I due to go through all that again? Crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com