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whatsinmybag today


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Ever since i started sending photos to whats im my bag I have paid a lot more attention to what actually is in there. Normally i clean out every week but i havent had time for the last 2 so theres a lot built up it seems, what this says about me i dont know only that i have way too much junk in here to be carrying round every day

Missing : Canon Powershot A40 and Case, Hanko name stamp (somewhere here)

What’s in my bag 31-12-08


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It’s been ages but I am bored at work so here we go.
What’s In My Bag 31-12-2008

Also I carry keys, wallet, camping pen, and iPhone in my pant pockets. and I wear a wrist watch.

check out my bag from ’06 here:
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What’s in my Bag? September 27, 2007


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This is trimmed down to the basics, believe me. Just fits crammed in my bike basket.

365 day project 2010: Day 3


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What’s in my bag! Been meaning to do this for ages and I didn’t want to venture outside in the 39 degree heat today. Plus I have the next three days to get organised before work kicks off again for me so a great time to chuck out all those scraps of paper from the bottom of my bag!

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I’m packing my bag for London.

What’s In My Bag


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Just the essentials for ETech 2005

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What’s really in my carry on bag? – With Flickr notes!


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I just got back from a couple of days in Cincinnati, and here is all of my stuff. I wanted to go 100% carry on, and made it! This is everything that was in it when I checked into my hotel room. Hit the notes to see what’s what . . .

whatsinmybag


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I have three places that I spend most of my time. I’m co-owner of a web startup so I can work from any of those places. This is what I carry with me day to day. It’s my office on my back.

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Lost + Found / 20070925.850SD.IS.0754 / SML


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See Uncovered treasures to see what I found!

SML Thank You: Lori Casey

I would like to thank Lori Casey for finding my bag in an NYC cab, uncovering countless treasures / necessities for me. I am in awe with how amazing people can be. Folks: we are talking about a city with millions of people here… and *nothing* was lost!

This made for a very happy birthday gift

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‘On Air’ Episode 10 Summary


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10 years ago. Jang was setting up for Oh what it would be to start in the entertainment business. It is his principle that he will not have anything to do with a minor. Jang poured out the wine and told that this was his favourite vintage. It was very nice to drink. When you first drink it, it was slightly bitter and depressing, as you allowed it to breathe, it will become sweet in your pallate

They went to the hotel suite, and Jang asked her whether it was a first time for her with a man in a hotel room having a drink. Jang was trying to portray a man with bad intentions to Oh.

"It takes a lifetime to wait for an opportunity of a chance, why not grab it?" recalled what her English tutor said.

(I wonder if this English tutor cum part-time model will be the newcomer for the main lead, since he can speak English. I will think that Oh will agree to have him on, since she is comfortable with him. Oh have shared heart feelings with him, eventually in the end of the drama, it likely seems so)

Oh was worried that she may not be able to act, as she had been hiding behind her PPL face for so long and dare not thread on unchartered waters. A remark by Kim (Chui Hyun Woo’s agent) to her that Jang will trade her in to him, which made her just a commodity.

Seo went to see Lee out of worry because he left the house in a haste and found out that problems arised with the film crew. Petty quarrels between Lee and Seo started flying again. Lee promise that he will not let her regret, just trust him this once and listen to him.

Oh called and asked to meet up with Seo. Seo was worried that Oh will the next in line to leave the drama. When Seo got there, Oh was already slightly tipsy and drunk, while gurgling down glasses of wine. Oh was on her third bottle of wine. Oh had a heart talk that she could not find anyone else to come except Seo. Her interpersonal skills with people must be awful. Oh asked Seo whether she have experience going to a hotel suite room with a man for a drink. Oh told her she did it once long time ago. Seo replied she had of course. Seo then asked whether Oh and Jang had a quarrel. Seo who couldn’t make head or tails on what Oh is saying. Then she found out that Oh wanted someone to hear her grief and it had nothing to do with rejecting the drama. Seo then gave Oh her two cents worth. "The biggest scandal for an artiste to have is her age." Oh asked Seo whether she was pathetic, in the sense she was never been an artiste with substance. Oh started to sob and apologised to Seo, which surprised Seo that Oh was willing to humble herself and told her the truth that indeed she is pathetic.

Lee received a call from Seo to asked for his help to take Oh home as it was not wise get any mode of public transport to sent her home. Seo couldn’t get hold of Jang. Lee agreed.

On the sidelines PD Yun is having her own personnal problems. A boyfriend who have no regards to her occupation as it doesn’t reap large monetary benefits. In the entertainment industries as in film, television and arts, it is not a occupation job but a vocation to the arts you love. Spending almost 24 hours on the job doesn’t leave you much time to have a social life. I remember having to do almost like grave yard shift and spending my slumber time at the office sofa in every chance of a 40 winks I could squeeze. But to feel the adrenalin rushing strive the addiction for that job.

Lee arrived to see a drunk Oh. Seo told him to take her home. Seo tried to wake up the drunken Oh, and in waking up, was surprised to see Lee. "Oh!! It is my chauffeur. You are here." Oh recalled to Seo on her escapade she had with Lee in Taiwan. Oh confessed each time she and Lee ever met will always stir trouble. Lee ordered Seo to finish with the script, much to Seo dismay.

Seo does have feelings for Lee.

At Oh’s home, Lee found difficulties in finding the bearings in her house. Remembered her house has divisions of partition in glass. It looked more like a car showroom than a house. After settling her down, Oh asked for water to clear her head from the alcohol effects and she played her audition tapes, where she couldn’t deliver her lines properly.

From what I can see from the audition tapings, that she did indeed audition for the movie version of the "Ticket to the Moon" and failed miserably at it. Oh thanked Lee for being a gentleman for bringing her home.

Jang come by to Oh’s house to see Lee leaving. Jang and Lee had some exchange of words on priorities. Jang recalled the conversation they had when they were jogging in Taiwan, that from that day she had never rested and persisted to pursue to her present status. Jang went to her to wipe her sweat, asked why she was disobedient treating like she was 10 years ago and told her he misses her very much

Oh have always had an unrequited love for Jang. Remembered she still kept the umbrella he gave her.

Lee at the studio station getting ready with the pre production of getting the location in. Seo stayed up to finish off the Episode 5 of the script and would deliver Episode 6 later. She was off when Lee came in with the set plans and location for Seo to have a look. Lee asked whether she got home safely. Seo answered in a single liner and vice versa asked whether Oh was sent home safely as she was very drunk and Lee answered with a simple "Yes". Lee saw Seo was setting out somewhere, he said he will wait for her. Seo replied that it would have to be tomorrow. Seo told that the Episode 5 was ready and Episode 6 will be delivered in the weekend. Lee asked who is she meeting. Seo told him that she need not report to him her whereabouts and activities. Seo was slightly jealous that Lee sent Oh alone to her house. Writer imagination running wild on that occasion.

Seo was having lunch with the Station Chief. Seo vented her frustration on the incompetent Studio chief. Chief call Seo’s fat lady agent for some damage control report. it looked like the fat lady and the studio chief has provide the comic relief with their relationship

Jang tried to call Oh but she wasn’t answering

At Jang’s office, the two employees was rehearsing the plague cards from the scenes "Love is…." (great show with great touch of British humour). They are trying to remember the dialogue when the english tutor came in and recited the remaining dialogue. He helped to tutor them in English. The English tutor, (he must have a name somewhere, or it is never mentioned previously) explain the scenario to them on how to act their emotion to the scene. The translation went all awry. The English tutor explained that being in front of the camera is very lonely. "All by yourself without anyone to help you. It is just you and your confidence." Jang overheard. The English tutor wanted to give some things to Oh as he was going back to the States next Wednesday. Jang asked him if he was an actor. English tutor said he was up till yesterday. The English tutor meet Oh in New York, didn’t realise Oh was so famous in Korea.

Jang called one of Oh’s assistant and found out that Oh was practising the piano as schedule. Jang asked the assistant to asked Oh to meet him at an advertising agency for the CF. Oh came and was surprise later when CEO Jin and Cherry appeared.

The advertising agency was glad that both actress were here as they were going to be casted in the same drama written by Seo. As the advertising agency personnel step out for a call. Oh and Jang asked what is going on. CEO Jin said it was his idea to have done this way. The concept was explained, Oh as her haughty self critized the concept of the storyboard of the CF. Oh rejected it down flat. Jang agreed that Oh has done the right thing towards her road to becoming a Korean artiste rather than a PPL celebrity. CEO Jin was left dry on this.

Jang then assured Oh that he will never trade her to anyone, and not to listen to any rumours that issue. She was to be assured.

At Seo’s office, discussion on the set location
Eun Young’s soap workshop – looked too bland and real, would like to have it more cuter and dreamy effect
Eun Sok’s apartment – looked like a rented apartment for parents with two kids rather than of a professional doctor

There is also some budget constraints, Lee made some suggestions and Seo agreed. Seo was letting off a cold front and everybody could feel it. Lee invited Seo for casting. Lee then left for a meeting. Seo’s PA was taking a liking to Assistant PD Choe. Seo asked if Lee had seen the script. Her PA said he had, and while Seo was browsing, she couldn’t find the pen marks on her script, but then realise he did a pen mark at the cover of the script. It means that he is total satisfy with the script

Lee approached a director who is now making a living selling fried chicken. Lee wanted him to return to be his 1st Assistant Director. There was an incident that happened that he is no longer in the field. Lee begged him to return for his experience, but got thrown out instead. It looked like the fried chicken shop have some renegade film crew running around

Jang went to look for details of the English tutor from his previous talent agency. It seem he was in Broadway before and is a qualify lawyer. It seem he was spotted by one of the talent ageny scout and asked him to come to Korea. Because of his mix blood, he could only limited to CF. What a considence!!!!. Isn’t he perfect for the main lead they are looking for. Whalla!!! Taaa Daaa!!!

Jang went to the airport to look for him. He looked at the Departure board to see that his flight was in "Boarding" status. We finally get to know that his name "Aden". With Jang’s broken English, he asked Aden to delay his departure for a month. He finally spoke in Korean

"If you believe what I say, and I don’t know if there is such a saying in America. In Korea, it is often said that there is a saying that every person is given three chances in his lifetime. I can grant you one of these chances. What will it be?"

Seo went to buy some drink and recalled the past when Jang come in to buy a carton of coffee. Then Jang came in and repeated the scene. A dejavu. Jang was surprised that she could remember it all this while and he should be grateful. Jang asked if there is any progress on the main lead. She is not optimistic and was going to attend a casting session. She still insisted on using A-Class actor.

Casting for the male lead.
Candidates doing various section of the script. They all look pathethic. They all looked as though they were auditioning for comedy gag. Everybody started to yawns as the day draws longer. Aden was the last to be casted.

Jang asked for the result. Lee thought that Aden will fit the role. But Seo still insisted that they should persuade Lee Seo Jin to do it. Seo said that Aden couldn’t manage his Korean dialogue. Jang insisted he can be coached. Jang told them that Aden is his artiste. Jang asked them to trust him, and asked her to return the favour of all the coffee he render to Seo. Both Seo and Lee were blank.

Preview
It looked like Song Chang Ui is shooting a CF with Oh. Taiwan location starts. Jang and Lee had a conflict while Seo and Oh are there to mediate this time.

by Jackie (http://bimbibap.wordpress.com)

THE CHRISTMAS TALE OF A LIBERAL AND OTHERS OF THEIR ILK


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By Jeffrey Lord on 12.21.10 @ 6:08AM

Requiem: Hymn or dirge for repose of the dead.
– Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

Christmas, 1985.

Tom Wicker was upset.

The longtime New York Times political reporter turned columnist, an icon of liberal journalism in the day, was furious with President Ronald Reagan and his conservative administration. So he sat himself down during the Christmas season and penned a column titled "Requiem at Christmas."

That would be requiem, as in a hymn for the dead.

The subject of Wicker’s fury is worth a look this Christmas, twenty-five years later. His tirade was delivered as Reagan and the conservative movement were riding a wave of public popularity just a year after Reagan’s 49-state re-election over former Vice President Walter Mondale.

Why is this important enough to take another look? Because this tale of a supposed political Scrooge and the Christmas Past of 1985 provides a glimpse of Christmas Future for conservatives in 2011.

Wicker, you see, was waxing eloquent about a pond at his rural retreat in historic Rappahannock County, Virginia. There, some twenty years earlier during the height of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the columnist built his pond on his own property. Perhaps understandably for a man who had spent his life as a liberal wordsmith, Wicker saw this moment of pond-building as "perhaps the single most constructive act of my life."

He also paid for the construction of the pond himself. Good man. A liberal who believes in private sector job creation.

But wait! Paid for it all himself? Then why in the world was Tom Wicker so furious at Ronald Reagan and conservatives?

What was this business of a "Requiem at Christmas"?

Well, there was actually more than a pond involved, you see. First, the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia arrived to stock Wicker’s pond "with large mouth bass, bluegills and channel catfish," the latter, Mr. Wicker assures us, "to establish a natural cycle" in his new private pond. But there was something else. There was also a dam. And instead of hiring a private sector contractor to design his dam, Mr. Wicker went somewhere else. Guesses, anyone?

That’s right. Instead of pumping his New York Times earnings into this task, Mr. Wicker turned to — you. You as in the taxpayers funding the federal government of the United States circa 1965. Specifically, in Wicker’s words, he turned to "Eddie Woods, the district agent for the Federal Soil Conservation Service, (who) designed the dam so well that the water eventually rose precisely to the little red flags he had set out to predict the shoreline of what he called a ‘water impoundment.’"

Said Wicker as his fury rose to what might be called the liberal anger impoundment shoreline of the Times print pond: "That’s only an infinitesimal incident in the annals of one of the Federal services dedicated to the American earth and to those who work and cherish it." Indeed, indeed. "Infinitesimal" is precisely the word for whatever federal tax dollars were spent on his pond. Then, without missing a beat or evidencing a solitary thread of irony, Wicker moves his readers from the pond-designing Federal Soil Conservation Service to another agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture: the Agricultural Extension Service.

There, he fingers Scrooge. Otherwise known as President Ronald Reagan.

While we are left to ponder the fact that good ole Eddie Woods of the Federal Soil Conservation Service was spending his time designing Wicker’s private dam on Wicker’s private property, Wicker sharply points out: "Now Ronald Reagan wants to kill the Extension Service to save money; if the service is needed his aides say, let the states pay for it."

At this point, Wicker’s outrage at this horrifying bit of Dickensian Scroogery from the Reagan White House explodes.

"What effrontery!" he splutters. The nerve of Reagan. Trying to cut back the federal government by suggesting that if a service is so valuable to a state that state should pay for the service and leave the American taxpayer in other states alone.

On a roll, Wicker moves to another outrageous Reagan idea: privatizing the Federal Housing Administration. What a wretched, foolish idea snaps Mr. Wicker. Why, the whole reason for the FHA, a New Deal program from 1934, was that private institutions "failed to make housing loans available to low and middle-income people…in the first place." Translation: mortgages were not given to those who could not afford them.

Imagine that. Way back there in 1985 Mr. Wicker simply can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong with forcing the government’s way into the private housing market and making sure people who can’t afford mortgages get them from the federal government. The very idea of getting rid of such a program made Wicker’s bile rise. As with an unrelated Agriculture Department program, this concept of getting rid of government programs is absurd on its face to Wicker and the Times. Wicker scorns Reagan, saying the President and his conservative policy advisers "in their mania for privatization and profit think they can make a buck on the sale, thus reducing the deficit."

Move ahead to 2008, August, specifically. Mr. Wicker is now presumably enjoying his retirement at the ripe-young age of 82. Which is to say one month before the subprime mortgage crisis explodes in the middle of the presidential campaign. Over in the pages of Forbes magazine, reporters Joshua Zumbrun and Maurna Desmond are waving something that might be recognized as a larger version of "the little red flags" planted by a government agent to predict the shoreline of Wicker’s now 23-year old government designed pond. This red flag is financial in nature and is being waved to alert readers that, well, a tidal wave is surging toward America’s financial shoreline. Says Forbes:

Watch your wallet.

Heralded as a savior in reversing the mortgage market’s woes, risks to the agency could cost taxpayers dearly, says one mortgage expert, as Washington morphs the FHA from a helping hand for low-income home buyers into a back door bailout for the imploding mortgage industry.…

"Nobody is talking is talking about it, but in three years the FHA bailout is going to cost taxpayers at least 0 billion dollars," said Guy Cecala, a mortgage industry insider and publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance. "Everybody on Capitol Hill recognizes that there will be significant costs, but they’re trying to keep the housing spigot open even if it will bring in some bad water down the road."

Ahhh yes. Red flags and bad water. Says the publication Mortgage Loan.com later after the tidal wave has crashed ashore and started financially pulling Americans financially underwater en masse:

"The FHA has committed and tapped 0 billion to ramp up the Hope for Homeowners program."

Which is to say Forbes underestimated things.

Mr. Wicker’s philosophy, in short, more or less had its way with America. There was no requiem for liberal government spending in spite of Wicker’s protestations and snappy column title. The significance of the Reagan presidency — and later the Gingrich Congress — was to red flag the shoreline of financial consequences for the endless parade of tax-and-spend politicians of all stripes who swarmed Washington after 1932. This disaster, decades in the making, would take decades to resolve. Reagan’s administration as the president himself came to realize was merely step one — recognition of the problem and beginning to apply the brakes. There were politicians — of both parties — utterly heedless of the obvious fact that even the highest taxes (if you were a liberal) or the most advanced free market policies (if you were a conservative) could not keep pace if the reality was unceasing, massive spending on everything from today’s Obamacare to the pittance that was Tom Wicker’s Great Society-era government designed dam.

This Christmas, as economies in places like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal struggle because they listened to and were run by the ideas of their own Tom Wickers, the holiday for millions really is going to be downright Dickensian.

But — thankfully — this is America. A country which has a magnificent heritage of self-reliance that, reports to the contrary, is not dead yet. There are millions of Americans who now realize the direct, very stark connection between their joblessness, the almost eighty years of so-called government "services" like designing dams for the rural retreat of a well-to-do New York Times columnist — and the federal deficit. Not to mention the role played by all those subprime mortgages
Twenty-five Christmases later, Tom Wicker’s dam is symbolic of exactly what is dragging down the American economy.

Too much government. Too much government. Too much government. Not enough money. Not enough money. Not enough money.

There are only two ways out of this mess that has been some 80-years in the making. First is economic growth — putting an end to the politics of class warfare and envy that liberals like New York’s Congressman Anthony Weiner employ to keep their own middle-class constituents economically under-water for political benefit.

And …. cutting spending. Dealing straight-up with not just the tax code but health care costs, entitlements and discretionary spending like that responsible for designing Tom Wicker’s dam. Incoming House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future, discussed here, along with repealing Obamacare, will be and should be one of the first items on the agenda of House Republicans when they take over the majority in January.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, cited on MSNBC by Joe "No Labels" Scarborough, has made the point in a recent CBS 60 minutes interview. Says Christie: "The day of reckoning has arrived…the credit card has maxed out…it’s over. It’s over."

Yes, it is.

But when the Mother of All Budget Battles arrives in March (the expiration date for the just passed "Continuing Resolution" that freezes spending at the modest (??!!) current level of .1 trillion) expect House Republicans, GOP Senators, and every conservative from presidential candidates to talk radio hosts to you to be called, in so many words, Scrooge.

What you’re really hearing, in the inevitable fashion so bluntly described by Governor Christie, is at last — is it possible? — a genuine requiem for limitless government spending.

At which point it will do well to remember that twenty-five Christmases ago one columnist in the New York Times crystallized the argument nicely in a fashion he could not foresee.

How did we get to this day of reckoning of which Governor Christie speaks? How could this country and a number of its states possibly be edging to bankruptcy?

By borrowing the money to pay for Tom Wicker’s dam.

And a lot more besides.

Merry Christmas.

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