Comments for the littlest meap http://blog.meaplet.com I support your art but that does not mean that I must support your revolution. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 Comment on Holiday cooking by meaplet http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/12/27/holiday-cooking/#comment-134 meaplet Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:01:38 +0000 http://blog.meaplet.com/?p=153#comment-134 Yes, thank you for posting the recipe! Yes, thank you for posting the recipe!

]]> Comment on Holiday cooking by Shannalee http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/12/27/holiday-cooking/#comment-133 Shannalee Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:26:51 +0000 http://blog.meaplet.com/?p=153#comment-133 So glad you were able to make (and love) the rosemary cookies. They're amazing! So glad you were able to make (and love) the rosemary cookies. They’re amazing!

]]> Comment on Playing Backgammon as the World Burns by Marjorie http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/24/playing-backgammon-as-the-world-burns/#comment-131 Marjorie Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:03:57 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=142#comment-131 It occurs to me that I've left a salaried job in order to pursue positions where labor is compensated by housing and food. It wasn't my intention to jump ship on this whole liquid-currency thing, but... It occurs to me that I’ve left a salaried job in order to pursue positions where labor is compensated by housing and food. It wasn’t my intention to jump ship on this whole liquid-currency thing, but…

]]> Comment on Playing Backgammon as the World Burns by meaplet http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/24/playing-backgammon-as-the-world-burns/#comment-129 meaplet Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:26:15 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=142#comment-129 Laura- I haven't, but I guess I should. Generally Pratchett's brand of humor and mine do not mesh particularly well, but I'll look into it. Marjorie- This week on Planet Money they're talking about the theme What Is Money? and last night's episode, "Money is a Relationship," ended up being really topical to this post. They had an economist talking about how "money" is the embodied concept of trust in other people--money is, in essence, a loan that you know will be repaid, generalized and held in common trust by everybody. Which makes me think it's a lot cooler than I normally do--I've been convinced for a while that it's this precarious system of not trusting others but only trusting this big wacky system. I'm actually quite reassured. Laura-

I haven’t, but I guess I should. Generally Pratchett’s brand of humor and mine do not mesh particularly well, but I’ll look into it.

Marjorie-

This week on Planet Money they’re talking about the theme What Is Money? and last night’s episode, “Money is a Relationship,” ended up being really topical to this post. They had an economist talking about how “money” is the embodied concept of trust in other people–money is, in essence, a loan that you know will be repaid, generalized and held in common trust by everybody.

Which makes me think it’s a lot cooler than I normally do–I’ve been convinced for a while that it’s this precarious system of not trusting others but only trusting this big wacky system. I’m actually quite reassured.

]]> Comment on Playing Backgammon as the World Burns by Marjorie http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/24/playing-backgammon-as-the-world-burns/#comment-128 Marjorie Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:30:22 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=142#comment-128 Sometimes I do get weirded out by the unreality of money. But this tends to happen around the same time I'm getting vertigo over the improbability of my being an American and not something else, in the twenty-first century and not the sixteenth or the twenty-ninth, etc. Or the improbability that the United States exists and includes Hawaii, that Christianity ever took hold, and that anyone ever figured out how to eat coconuts. Anyway, the oddity of money so far has not stood out from the oddity of everything else, for me, but the way the times are going, maybe it will soon. Sometimes I do get weirded out by the unreality of money. But this tends to happen around the same time I’m getting vertigo over the improbability of my being an American and not something else, in the twenty-first century and not the sixteenth or the twenty-ninth, etc. Or the improbability that the United States exists and includes Hawaii, that Christianity ever took hold, and that anyone ever figured out how to eat coconuts. Anyway, the oddity of money so far has not stood out from the oddity of everything else, for me, but the way the times are going, maybe it will soon.

]]> Comment on Playing Backgammon as the World Burns by Lauralyrics http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/24/playing-backgammon-as-the-world-burns/#comment-127 Lauralyrics Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:40:13 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=142#comment-127 You've read Terry Pratchett's "Making money", right? Because if you haven't, you totally should. :) You’ve read Terry Pratchett’s “Making money”, right? Because if you haven’t, you totally should. :)

]]> Comment on Playing Backgammon as the World Burns by meaplet http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/24/playing-backgammon-as-the-world-burns/#comment-126 meaplet Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:17:01 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=142#comment-126 Addendum: During the course of composing this, I started to look up "berkeley backgammon" on Google search and found that the suggestion feature in Toolbar offered it as the first suggestion even before I finished typing "berkeley." Presumably this is because I've searched for the topic before, but I don't remember an occasion where I did so, and so can only stand in wonder at the psychic properties of Google Suggest. The search results for that term did not, however, tell me that it was Hume and not Berkeley who played backgammon to relieve his Skepticism. It only told me where to play board games in the East Bay. Addendum: During the course of composing this, I started to look up “berkeley backgammon” on Google search and found that the suggestion feature in Toolbar offered it as the first suggestion even before I finished typing “berkeley.” Presumably this is because I’ve searched for the topic before, but I don’t remember an occasion where I did so, and so can only stand in wonder at the psychic properties of Google Suggest. The search results for that term did not, however, tell me that it was Hume and not Berkeley who played backgammon to relieve his Skepticism. It only told me where to play board games in the East Bay.

]]> Comment on Countdown by meaplet http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/03/countdown/#comment-124 meaplet Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:49:13 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-124 Ha, I almost said "other things less scary than the elections: getting your wisdom teeth removed" but deleted it at the last minute because it wasn't actually happening this week. Good luck getting your wisdom teeth out! My first couple days after were pretty bad, but then the healing was fast. Ha, I almost said “other things less scary than the elections: getting your wisdom teeth removed” but deleted it at the last minute because it wasn’t actually happening this week.

Good luck getting your wisdom teeth out! My first couple days after were pretty bad, but then the healing was fast.

]]> Comment on Countdown by katie http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/03/countdown/#comment-123 katie Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:41:57 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-123 oh man. voted a few weeks ago (and i agree with you wholeheartedly on the issues). still nervous as hell. of course, i scheduled my wisdom teeth removal for the fifth. just in case things end badly, i can be totally incoherent for the week after the election, drugged up on painkillers... oh man. voted a few weeks ago (and i agree with you wholeheartedly on the issues).

still nervous as hell. of course, i scheduled my wisdom teeth removal for the fifth. just in case things end badly, i can be totally incoherent for the week after the election, drugged up on painkillers…

]]> Comment on Jacobean, Post-Apocalyptic, and Liverpudlian by meaplet http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/01/jacobean-post-apocalyptic-and-liverpudlian/#comment-122 meaplet Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:31:15 +0000 http://meaplet.wordpress.com/?p=134#comment-122 Your doppelganger is fortunately only in the special features. Also, she is really only your mannerisms doppelganger when she is in the process of describing Chris Eccelston's relative level of intensity via eyes and hand gestures. Your doppelganger is fortunately only in the special features.

Also, she is really only your mannerisms doppelganger when she is in the process of describing Chris Eccelston’s relative level of intensity via eyes and hand gestures.

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