February 2012
28 posts
“We had a crew that was working in this remote town in the far northern end of...”
– The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, Jim DeFede
There’s a lot of rot talked about the sufferings of the working class. I’m not so sorry
for the proles myself … The prole suffers physically, but he’s a free man when he isn’t working. But in every one of those little stucco boxes there’s some poor bastard who’s NEVER free except when he’s fast asleep and dreaming that he’s got the boss...
“James, I don’t get how you can be an engineer, and not be able to count.”
– my trainer
“A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American...”
“By the fourth year, however, many bankers were a mess, according to the study....”
– Hazard of the Trade: Bankers’ Health
“The enclosed shopping mall, despite still often being considered a dominant...”
– Labelscar, the retail history blog. Site authors claim to have visited two thirds of malls in the US.
Wall Street
By implication, the whole asset management industry is going to consolidate and shrink; its cost and fee structure will also need to adjust to more competitive levels. Meanwhile, the trend toward lower fees and the preference for larger managers pinch smaller funds even more nastily because of the way these developments interact with the second reason for the industry’s fundamental...
“I’d tried to explain that if he didn’t give me drugs, I would likely spend the...”
not gonna lie, i’ve been following jeremy lin and what’s happened has been pretty amazing
“You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are...”
– 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, Karl Pillemer
“Olive-oil fraud continues today, though modern governments are often less...”
– Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, review.
“I don’t play chess. I play golf — poorly. I don’t play the piano, but we have a...”
– Bizarre shareholder conference call from Albert Lord, CEO of Sallie Mae (the largest college tuition lender in the US). He ended it with an audible, “Let’s get the fuck out of here.”
“Six months before the space shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28,...”
– Engineer Roger Boisjoly died on 3 February 2012.
“People seem to have a strange concept of how luck works and how the...”
– 29 life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight. The best advice article I’ve ever read.