The franc is back in France, at least in one little village. After switching to the euro in 2002, France’s franc became obsolete. (The Swiss continue to produce their own last francs of Europe.)
But some of the businesses in Collobrières are accepting the old francs in lieu of euros. According to the story in the [...]
It’s easy to babble. It’s hard to write short. Writing short is a decent thing to do; it saves your reader’s precious time. But once you’re in that mode of writing, it seems even harder to write long. I usually inject a lot of “very”s. I find that very effective.
Or, you have to be [...]
The federal minimum wage will be increased for the first time in more than a decade this July. On July 24, the wage for people covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act will be a whopping $5.85 per hour.
Better late than never, I guess. Will it make a difference? Especially with the cost of [...]
Matt Krupnick published an article about the fallout from the dean search at Berkeley’s journalism school in the Contra Costa Times yesterday (“UC Berkeley mum on why dean hire bailed out”). I think it’s worth a read, if only for the summing up that hasn’t appeared anywhere else–and he did a good job considering few [...]
Too many people would have been too unhappy with me if they’d heard about this after the fact. So: tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23.
Jeopardy!.
Check your local listings.
My friend and former colleague Pat Joseph has an article in the latest Virginia Quarterly Review. It’s about the boom (and recent bust) in soy farming in the interior of Brazil.
Well written, all round, but one section I especially liked was about the Brazilian sense that the Americans need not tell them how to live, [...]
As is customary when wasting any significant amount of time on YouTube, I stumbled across a cute enough little animation about an ambitious, yearning kiwi. And then another version of the same cartoon, this time with the Gary Jules/Michael Andrew song “Mad World” dubbed on top. It all seemed suitably angst-ridden. Kiwi and other videos, [...]
The Chronicle’s Matier and Ross reported this morning that California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s official car was broken into recently. It was parked in San Francisco’s Civic Center, “Right across from City Hall, in plain view of the mayor’s office,” he told the Chronicle.
Nearly everyone I know who owns a car in San Francisco has [...]
Every once in a while, a dragon picks you up and you lose your loose change. What are you going to do? Lio, 29 June 2007.
Sunday: Groceries; and that hotel room
Monday: A car, at a dealership
Tuesday: Sushi; and maybe some more groceries
Wednesday: Plane tickets in the morning; also, Six Flags, a movie, and the art museum
Thursday: Gasoline, in the morning; books, from chain stores; and that charcoal v-neck at Banana Republic, in the evening
Friday: ???
Saturday: Big plastic containers, at Target, [...]
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