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Friday, December 8, 2023
Speaking of Vermin
A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Buying ‘12 Days of Christmas’ Gifts Would Cost $47,000
I'm sure this information is at the top of everyone's mind.
Glenn
Glenn
Buying '12 Days of Christmas' Gifts Would Cost $47,000
True Loves will pay a record $46,729.86 this season to buy all the gifts mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas" song. Scrooges everywhere can blame the 2.7% increase from last year on the rising price of turtle doves, laying geese, and lords-a-leaping.
- PNC Financial Services Group's 40th annual Christmas Price Index calculates how much it would cost to buy everything from the partridge in the pear tree through the 12 drummers drumming. Buying all 364 gifts repeated through the whole song would cost $201,972.66.
- The most recent reading has the consumer price index up 3.2% from a year ago. This year's Christmas price increase isn't because of the cost of fowl, but more because of rising wages for skilled labor. Wages for performers are up 3.3% in aggregate—but not for all workers.
- Among other increases, the cost of a partridge in a pear tree rose 14%; two turtle doves increased 25%; three French hens cost 3.5% more; and six geese-a-laying rose 8.3%. Prices for four calling birds, five gold rings, and seven swans-a-swimming all stayed the same as in 2022.
- Higher U.S. labor costs explain why it costs 4% more this year to buy 10 lords-a-leaping, 6.2% more for 11 pipers piping, and 6.2% more for 12 drummers drumming, Amanda Agati, the chief investment officer of PNC's Asset Management Group, told Barron's in an email.
What's Next: But there were no raises for eight maids-a-milking, because PNC calculated using the $7.25 federal minimum wage as a proxy, which hasn't risen in many years, Agati said. The nine ladies dancing, who received a 10% raise in 2022, didn't get any raises this year.
Barron's Daily
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
The first shall be last.
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
We're doomed
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Clouding the issues
A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Happy Turkey Day!
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Totally normal ... totally
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Monday, November 20, 2023
Back to the future
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Friday, November 17, 2023
The hallowed hells ... er ... halls of Congress
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Good government, to be continued, or maybe discontinued.
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Thugs
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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
Sein Kampf
A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.
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