Archive for September 2007
This is the kind of nerd I am. Fun is…
surfing the fidelity.com website and trying to see what index fund, etf, or mutual fund has the highest performance to expense ratio for the last 3 years. playing microstakes ($0.10/$0.20) Omaha Pot Limit (hi only) and limping every single late position hand, regardless of the quality of my hand. Just to learn how to steal.…
Read MoreThe great Facebook purge of 2007
My random thoughts: the one downside of not having my life heavily segmented is that if something is bothering me that I don’t really want 50 people to know about, I’m not sure who I can confide in. The nature of discretion is complex. People can’t assure you they’re ‘discrete’, you have to learn by…
Read MoreOk, this is weird.
I’ve moved to a place where I have dozens of friends. This wasn’t unintentional. It’s the main reason Sarah chose this for "her turn" to move us, and ironically enough, researchers have found that happiness and longevity is linked to spending time with friends. But it’s definately a new experience. In DC I would have…
Read MoreUK students win fight over interest debt with HSBC
From ABC News: (I’ve heavily edited this, see the original) By early August, HSBC formally began applying a 9.9 percent interest to the debts of nearly 250,000 British students. Here in the land of genteel socialism, the response was predictable: fury. But students are always angry about something. But that is counterbalanced by the fact…
Read More“Danny Boy”, from the Muppet Show
The Internet is useful in ways you don’t understand. I don’t say this because I have some unique insight into it’s inner workings, but simply because the sum total of information out there has different value to people in different situations. Take YouTube, for example. For you it’s a source of funny distraction. For me…
Read MoreRapid response skills online
If you follow the Google zeitgeist you know that major news events follow a familiar pattern online: The news event breaks; People rush to their computers to search for news about the event; People start buying domain names related to the event to attract quick ad traffic revenue; and The funny tshirts start coming out.…
Read MoreBurning Man 2007: “You’re doing it wrong”
This was my first year at Burning Man as a San Franciscan. I had great visions of how much better my art project would be due to my not having to haul crap across the country. I also had developed a larger set of friends here and was excited to spend some time out on…
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