January312012
A Bill Cosby sweater? Yes. Absolutely yes. 1000 times yes. In the words of Tracy Jordan: “I’m Bill Cosby. Jell-O. Sweaters.” (Via)
This is exactly how I think my finance exam is going to go. I think I’m going to walk into the room, come face to face with the professor, and we’ll have this exchange:
Me: “Do you expect me to take this exam?”
Professor: “No. I expect you to die.”
January292012
Finance exam? What finance exam? I’m too busy watching and re-watching this video of 2 kittens and a very tolerant cat. (And by that I mean that I’m calculating returns on equity, weighted average costs of capital and de-levering and re-levering equity betas until I can literally do….. no more).
January272012
January262012
"The reason I can never own a gun is that I definitely would’ve shot the wall 20 times when I heard a weird noise in the other room just now."
— Katie Heaney (And to that I respond….. Amen, sister friend)
January252012
Unwritten Self-Help Books That Could Have Really Helped Me Last Week »
I loved this list from The Hairpin. A few favorites:
- What to Say When Your Sophisticated and Well-Traveled Boss Asks What You Did Last Weekend, and All You Did Was Drink Wine and Weep While Watching YouTube Videos of Dogs Greeting Soldiers Coming Home From War
- How to Seamlessly Integrate an Imaginary Boyfriend Into Your Social Circle
- Coming to Terms With Your Imaginary Boyfriend’s Libertarian Politics
- Should You Break Into a Jog If Someone’s Holding a Door Open and You’re Still a Few Paces Away? A new book from the author of the international best-seller, How Long Should You Maintain Eye Contact When You’re Passing Someone You Know in a Long Hallway?
January242012
January212012
While highly, highly unfortunate that a cell phone rings during a concert, the way the violinist responds is pretty incredible. I can’t even fathom what it would be like to have that much natural musical talent as this guy does. (Via)
January172012
"We have an assumption that connected equals good. … That’s not to say that assumption is incorrect, but there’s an alternate state that needs just as much attention, and that’s the state of disconnection. …
What I think we’re trying to imagine is a “Crusoe Mode”: A space or a device with which we can escape, and be a little marooned, and be a little productive, and be happy and content in that state.
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January162012
January102012
"What’s the difference between a toddler and a psychopath? Apparently, not too much. In 1980 Robert Hare, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, developed a 16-point checklist for determining whether a person was technically a psychopath. After taking a look at this list, and taking a look at the daily behavior of my two toddler girls, I can only conclude one thing: a psychopath is just really a person who has never grown out of the toddler stage."
— Rhiana Maidenberg takes us through the checklist and let’s just say the results are, well, terrifying.
