Konstruktors » Random Musings http://konstruktors.com Web Design, WordPress and Performance Services Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:08:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20790 Steve is Listening (or iPhone 4) http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/2443-steve-is-listening-or-iphone-4/ http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/2443-steve-is-listening-or-iphone-4/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:12:39 +0000 Kaspars http://konstruktors.com/?p=2443 Some time ago I said that Apple should call their phones simply by numbers in the order they’re released, instead of adding suffixes such as G and GS. Now they do.

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[Y]ou can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence — that’s all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. [...] There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be.

— (500) Days of Summer

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by Ainars Mielavs.

]]> http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/1790-pari-jumtiem-lido-kaijas/feed/ 0 US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/1640-us-stimulus-package-2588-to-every-american/ http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/1640-us-stimulus-package-2588-to-every-american/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:50:09 +0000 Kaspars http://konstruktors.com/blog/?p=1640 The US Government stimulus package of 787 billion US dollars ($787,000,000,000) divided by the US population of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.

Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery only when Americans will have repayed this loan and generated some additional return on this investment.

When do you think will this happen and how? Here is a prediction for the Debt-to-GDP ratio:

Ratio of Federal debt held by public to GDP (blue), CBO baseline (green), Obama budget as scored by CBO (black), and CBO baseline minus stimulus package (red), by fiscal years.

Ratio of Federal debt held by public to GDP (blue), CBO baseline (green), Obama budget as scored by CBO (black), and CBO baseline minus stimulus package (red), by fiscal years. Source: econbrowser.com

And you have to agree that this doesn’t look promising at all.

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TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on importance of education and creativity (via a comment at swissmiss)

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Why do only few economists notice these staggering numbers?

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]]> http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/1528-hey-youre-ok/feed/ 0 Jill Barber http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/870-jill-barber/ http://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/870-jill-barber/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:12:29 +0000 Kaspars http://konstruktors.com/blog/?p=870 Long time favorite — Jill Barber — on video and audio.

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