In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes
An interesting graph comparing the early 80s to today in terms of key economic metrics.
Unemployment has been rising, but it’s still lower than in the 80s. I shudder to think about buying a home at 18% interest. Egads. My folks were so fortunate to buy in the 70s, before the great wave of inflation hit.
source: Carpe Diem
Dan Farber provides some sage advice about weathering the downturn:
Reading The Wall Street Journal and watching CNBC lately can drive a person (namely me) to drink. Which is fun, but beyond answering the question, “Which scotch will I drink?” the seminal question is “How do we thrive in a downturn?”
Downturns are the best time to take market share. Most companies overreact. They get too conservative. They also forget that they are not the victims of the market.
Now, you are probably nodding wisely at this, and saying to yourself ‘So what, I’m not a company’.
But you are. You are a company of one. You have your sales and marketing, you have your executive decisions, you have your production, etc. This can be a time for you, yourself, to improve your “brand” and line up new customers.
From the man who wrote Liar’s Poker, a story about the people who managed to profit from the insanity of Wall Street bankers.
I like experimenting with different “to do” management systems, and I’ve been using RememberTheMilk.com extensively for the last couple of weeks. As I’ve mastered the “quick keys”, i’ve found RTM to be easier and easier to use.
Since I have three different computers for work, it’s nice to have an online task management system to keep things organized.
The only criticisms – I would like it to have a better sense of subtasks (which it may have, it’s possible I may not have found it). I would also like it to “mix up” the priorities – so that my undated tasks sometimes show up in different orders. Since they’re at the bottom, they’re easy to forget about.
I finally got around to watching this.
It is by far the most gratuitously violent and ridiculous film I’ve seen in a very long time. Which is not to say it is not fun. Desperado comes to mind as the only other film in a similar vein.
Anyways, if you want some mindlessly absurd gunplay and lots of carrots, Shoot ‘Em Up is a good place to start.
Interpret your myers-briggs personality type from your blog..
I have two blogs – this one and Indefinite Articles.
This one shows up as ‘INTP’, which matches me, personality-wise.
Indefinite Articles comes up as ‘ENTJ’, which means its basically more assertive.
Hat Tip: “Watts up with that?”
By entering realistic estimates of stocks of black carbon in soil from two Australian savannas into a computer model that calculates carbon dioxide release from soil, the researchers found that carbon dioxide emissions from soils were reduced by about 20 percent over 100 years, as compared with simulations that did not take black carbon’s long shelf life into account.
The findings are significant because soils are by far the world’s largest source of carbon dioxide, producing 10 times more carbon dioxide each year than all the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities combined. Small changes in how carbon emissions from soils are estimated, therefore, can have a large impact.
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.
9 Comments »
1. Dude, If you’re a fisherman, and you go 84 days without a fish, you FAIL! FIND ANOTHER JOB!
Comment by wat
2. First!
Comment by anon
3. I blame global warming. It’s killing all the fish.
Comment by john
4. Global Warming is a crock of sh!t. He can’t catch fish because he’s a f&$king MORON!
Comment by prat
5. Try fishing from a Lear Jet, instead of a Gulfstream!
Comment by flat
6. @5 – OFMG, that’s the best you can do? You’re worse that this hack Hemingway.
Comment by prat
7. @6 – f$^k you, douchebag.
Comment by flat
8. @4 – it’s people like you who are going to be first up against the wall when Obama takes over. Your IP has been logged!
Comment by zat
9. @8 – go read the book about the clocks that strike thirteen. You might learn something.
Comment by grat
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.
4 Comments »
1. Peter is a dick!
Comment by wat
2. OMFG, why should I care?
Comment by john
3. That’s what she said!
Comment by prat
4. Just what the world needs. More f&%king children.
Comment by flat
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
4 Comments »
1. He’s going to kill you and your mama too, bitch!
Comment by wat
2. HERE’S JOHNNY!
Comment by john
3. I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok. I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars! Hey Fern! Your dad’s a f%^king tranny!
Comment by prat
4. Fern has all the depth of a potted plant.
Comment by flat
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere nor a chair misplaced. We are alone here and we are dead.
4 Comments »
1. ZOMG! Brains! Brains!
Comment by wat
2. When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth!
Comment by john
3. Obsessive-Compulsive Zombies? I’m not buying it.
Comment by prat
4. @2 –
YEAH, AND WRITE REALLY CRAPPY BOOKS!When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth.
Comment by flat
Go Tell It to the Mountain – James Baldwin
Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
4 Comments »
1. Instead, he grew up gay. Like this writer.
Comment by wat
2. Who the f&^k is John, and why should I care?
Comment by bob
3. @2 – I’m John. You got a problem with that.
Comment by John
4. F&^k me. Now the Baldwin brothers are writing books?! AAAAAUUUGGGH!
Comment by flat
5. No, instead, he grew up gay. Like his father. Closet case!
Comment by grat