Last night

In the post I made last night, I asked for a chart of the S&P500 against oil, rather than gold. wrog obliged, here. It's kind of what you'd expect, only a lot moreso.

BTW, somebody spiked the dollar down against almost everything really sharply overnight. It bounced of Can90.5¢, for example, off two cents from yesterday at noon. That's in 12 hours. (It's since hopped back up to 91.6¢, which is still below yesterday's daytime low.) Today we get another warning, perhaps, from China about their reserve holdings. LA la la.

And, for something completely irrelevant and much nicer to look at, NASA got a great solar flare image series, so you can watch a flare erupt. It's sped up about 5x - this is five minutes of footage compressed into 30 or 40 seconds. (I didn't time it and I'm not very good at time so that may be off a bit. But not a lot.) Click through, it's worksafe.

leaf on gravel

( I like this leafpic a lot, but it's big, even at nontrivial compression. 202K clickthrough. )

Also, consumers seem to have lost their taste for adding personal credit. That bodes rather ill for the holiday shopping season.

weak, but not zero

EOD November 7: Played with a new little snippet of melody today, but not very much; I was badly distracted by other things. I think it's the chorus to something but I don't have any handle on exactly what. Hopefully something. Also, I wrote some lyrics for a song ("Unwanted Girls" is the working title) which I don't yet have melody or even necessarily time signature, tho' I'm pretty sure it's 2/2.

It's not a wordcount, but it's as close as I can come...