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Saturday, February 23, 2008

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sound

The bass from "Low" is rattling the trunk of the car next to me at the pump, and I can literally hear my bank account draining as the gas price ticks past $3.27 a gallon. Everything feels so sketchy lately with the costs rising, but then I see the morning paper’s headline about the F.D.A. extending Avastin’s use to breast cancer and I just have to take a breath. Omg, if that news means my aunt finally has a fighting chance, I guess I can handle paying way too much for this loaf of bread. The world feels loud and uncertain today, but that one bit of hope almost drowns out the roar of the Saturday traffic.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Low"

Flo Rida featuring T-Pain

The must-have

Wall-E Animatronic

On This Day

  • A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2008

  • Yes We Can
  • Why so serious?

Tech Check

App Store, Android (Release), Spotify & Chrome.

Cost of Living (2008)

Loaf of Bread

$1.37

Gallon of Gas

$3.27

Average Home

$229,600

New Car

$25,200

Meanwhile

  • The Great RecessionHousing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).

Time Elapsed

6,677 days ago

(18 years, 107 days)