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So a couple of years ago, this website appeared called the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter. It was one of the earliest sites following the lender side of the "subprime implosion."

Guess what they've just started! And guess what else they've started! Personally, I think the bank one is more interesting and the homebuilder one is late to the party, but hey, I guess they've found their brand.

And if you're wondering

I still spent too much time (which is to say, any) on politics, and probably too much time on economics, but I know the arrangement to write out for what had been the protosong "Song for an Incomplete Flute" (I'll keep the protoversion, too, since it is still playable on an incomplete flute ^_^ ) and some ideas about another song I've found difficult to put together. (It's a Difficult Listening Hour song, with, hum, a mix of three time signatures.) And I updated the masters for changes we've already been playing in もののけ猫、桜木町、and Leaffall, so newer copies of those will be easier to read.

Oh, and I did my singing exercises, and hit really the best high B I've ever hit. I was surprised, too.

snerk

Okay, so, if you're a large investor and you're trying to save a company in which you're invested, do you know what you don't do? Compare managing the company you're trying to save (Toll Brothers Home Construction) to "driving the Titanic":

"It's like driving the Titanic, things don't turn on a dime," said Dave Crossman, an analyst at Kirr Marbach & Co. in Columbus, Indiana, whose firm owned about 370,000 Toll shares as of Dec. 31.

Gosh, Freudian much?