While filling out my Yahoo NCAA bracket, I came across the following passage describing USC: Trojans, led by dynamite freshman O.J. Mayo (20.8 ppg), have driven short swords into opponent’s torsos on defense – 12th-most efficienct defense in D1
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Icahn: CEOs are like fraternity presidents
That’s the byline of an interesting 60 Minutes piece on ‘corporate raider’ Carl Icahn (who was mentioned here before in relation to an attempted takeover of Marvel Comics). Regardless of whatever else you may think of his practices, his commentary on CEO pay in this country is spot on. It’s particularly disturbing when they try …
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Phone Recycling
The other day I received an interesting letter in the mail. It was an offer from Sprint (my former cell phone provider), offering me $10 for my 4+ year old Samsung A620. I’m not sure if there is some kind of government subsidy involved here (a brief search didn’t turn up anything that seemed relevant), …
Brazen
A resident in my apartment complex just had all of the tires off of his BMW M3 stolen overnight. The car was left up on cinderblocks — we saw him talking to the police earlier this afternoon. Not a good way to start your Saturday, although I was impressed — he seemed much calmer talking …
Bush Presidential Library Coming to SMU
Here’s the article. It’s nice to see my alma mater landing a prestigious institution, but, at the same time, I, uh, wish it were a different president. If you weren’t aware, Bush’s connection with SMU is via Laura Bush, who is an SMU alumnus.
Gasoline
The Sam’s Club location down the street from me (of which we are members, due mainly to its proximity) recently opened a gas station. This is great for us — it’s essentially the same distance to the Sam’s Club gas station as it is to the other stations that, until now, we favored. And, naturally, …
Prank Calling
Apparently in order to become an executive or work in finance, your humor gland needs to be removed. This article about a prank caller who strikes during corporate earnings calls is doubly hilarious because none of the victims appear to comprehend the motivation for doing such a thing — that is, the joy in simply …
Dewey Defeats Truman
According to Macy’s, that is. NEW! Waterford Crystal XLll Super Bowl Champion Football $185.00 Patriot perfection! Nineteen wins. Zero losses. Football history has been rewritten, and the New England Patriots have won it all! Commemorate every bone-crunching tackle and triumphant touchdown with this limited edition Waterford Crystal football. Let me just state for the record …
The Running (Through) of the Bulls
A futures trader (apparently still in college) loses 40K, wiping out his account, over the long weekend on Dow futures. There are some YouTube videos on there as well, with a picture-in-picture of him superimposed over his trading software, swearing a lot. From an article linked to in comments elsewhere on his blog: From my …
Identity Reclaimed
I was complaining late last year about how my site still wasn’t the number one search result for my name. Well, I think setting up a better default index page for my site made some kind of difference — eriknovales.com is now the #1 search result for my name. Yeehaw.