Lynne Kiesling As you would expect in a large city, Manhattan has a fair number of good yarn stores: Purl in Soho, The Yarn Co. on Broadway at 82nd St., String on Madison Avenue at 78th St., Downtown Yarns on Avenue A, Knitting 321 on E. 75th St., Gotta Knit! on 6th Avenue, etc. A …
Lynne Kiesling Ed Reid tried to post the following comment on my post below regarding the GAO’s report on energy demand in the 21st century: I am concerned about the implications of “providing clear and consistent signals to energy markets”, as opposed to allowing free communication of clear signals among market participants. The US energy …
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Lynne Kiesling Dear loyal and wonderful readers and commenters, Thank you for your continued and appreciated interaction. I know that my MT-Blacklist has gone OTT Puritan; I actually think my host has futzed around with my MT installation. So comments and trackbacks are not currently working. I am just too swamped with the day jobs …
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Lynne Kiesling Is there something in the water, or the air? Yesterday the Manolo, he recommended a lovely cowboy boot to a loyal reader, and had the very nice things to say about the cowboy boot. For the past decade I’ve been threatening to buy a pair, ever since the first time I went to …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall has a post about an Oxfam proposal to enhance the well-being of small coffee farmers. He links to and quotes an article as saying Oxfam stated coffee … processors should fund, along with rich-country governments, the … destruction of at least five million bags of coffee stocks, Tim then does some …
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Lynne Kiesling On Wednesday the General Accounting Office issued a report on prospects for meeting energy demand in the 21st century. From the abstract: America’s demand for energy has, in recent decades, outpaced its ability to supply energy. As a result, the country has witnessed rapid price increases and volatility in some markets, such as …
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Lynne Kiesling OPEC has just announced its intention to boost production by 2 percent in April, in response to which prices fell to below $55/barrel. See one of these many news stories for further details and analysis.
Lynne Kiesling Taking a quick break … found this lovely recipe for Carbonades Flamandes at Chocolate & Zucchini, a French foodie blog that I enjoy. Sounds just the thing for a late winter/early spring weekend dish. She even suggests making your own pain d’?pice instead of buying one. I can get a decent one here …
Lynne Kiesling My friend Knitress was right on both counts: Martha’s poncho was crocheted, and made from Lion Brand’s Homespun yarn. The Lion Brand website has a crochet pattern for it up now, and will have a knit one up soon. Sorry, Manolo! Personally, this design is too boho for my taste. But I can …
Lynne Kiesling Back home, enjoying the early morning alertness that comes with east-west-flying jet lag … one of the first places I went was Virginia Postrel’s new Forbes column on the Barry Schwartz & Company anti-choice literature. I’ve always found these anti-choice arguments unpersuasive; at worst you can argue that too much choice can increase …
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