3 pressing issues
1. all this "november" business is really getting me down. how the hell did it become nearly-winter again? wasn't i in scotland in the winter? where did the summer go? what the hell, or as lisa might like me to say "hell that".
this bullshit better stop.
2. economists like baskets. today in economics class (yeah, i take econ, that's right) we were told about consumer price index and how it is calculated based on a "basket" of items. but then there's also this rigamarole i read about of china basing its currency on a "basket" of other currencies. wouldn't something like a "wallet" be a better, more metonymic, word for currency valuing. "china will now determine the value of the yaun[?] on a wallet of currencies." or why not just say "a variety of currencies"? get rid of the whole container issue.
much like the passage of time: this bullshit better stop
3. it is mike's birthday. happy birthday mike.
this bullshit better stop.
2. economists like baskets. today in economics class (yeah, i take econ, that's right) we were told about consumer price index and how it is calculated based on a "basket" of items. but then there's also this rigamarole i read about of china basing its currency on a "basket" of other currencies. wouldn't something like a "wallet" be a better, more metonymic, word for currency valuing. "china will now determine the value of the yaun[?] on a wallet of currencies." or why not just say "a variety of currencies"? get rid of the whole container issue.
much like the passage of time: this bullshit better stop
3. it is mike's birthday. happy birthday mike.
posted by nathan at 10:49 AM
2 Comments:
"Basket" makes sense for CPI, I guess, but it always makes me think of the infamous Somerville institution Market Basket.
Glad they did not call it "bowl" of items, or something equivalently pathetic. Also, don't complain. Economists might have tried to be funny.
By the way, because it is a "basket", it allows the idea of "leak." How could a wallet leak?
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