I’ve been staying at the same Westin hotel for the last couple of months. I have a few tips for management:
Stop calling me. Every time I order room service, I get 3 phone calls before the food actually arrives. “Hi Mr. Herbert, I just wanted to let you know that we have your order.” “Hi [...]
I just finished On Writing, by Stephen King. I highly recommend it. For the first time (that I’m aware), I agree 100% with The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, which wrote “This is the best book on writing. Ever.”
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a novelist, this book will inspire you to start writing.
I’m not going [...]
Here’s a great site for finding cheap gas prices. But it relies on regular folks (like my readers) and extraordinary folks (like me) to enter in pricing information.
Right now, the site says that the cheapest gas is at the Gulf station on Long Ridge and Webbs Hill ($3.50 / gallon). You can even [...]
Unbelievable.
The National Toxicology Program says that certain plastic bottles release a chemical called bisphenol, which could cause breast cancer, prostate cancer, and early onset puberty. (see nytimes article)
This is the stuff that goes into baby bottles! Is my 5 month old going to start growing pubic hair?
Put Jack aside for a minute….what about me???
I carry [...]
More fun with exhibitionist charts.
Admit it….you wish you were married to me.
I receive breaking news alerts from CNN, WSJ, NYT, various media-industry and bankruptcy-industry sources. I get a lot of emails. If the Fed cuts interest rates, my Inbox suddenly has 9 new messages letting me know what happened. I usually read one of them and archive the rest.
It amuses me to see [...]
Yesterday, on Metro-North, I sat next to a guy wearing a bathrobe. He was reading a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and popping pills. It was weird.
I arrived at home and told Greta. She laughed, and then pointed at me and said “You see, it’s a slippery slope.”
That really made me laugh. Sure, [...]
New parents will find this amusing.read more | digg story
This chart shows a breakdown of our expenses over the last 3 months. Taxes are a whopping 36% of the total. (This is withholding, not actual tax payments, but it’s a fair estimate)
Making pie charts on a Saturday….priceless.
Thank god It’s Friday
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One of the best things about consulting is Friday.
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Consultant, Superhero
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Our chances of being audited this year might be slightly higher than in past years.
Turbo tax worked overtime yesterday. (It’d better work hard….this is the first year I bypassed trusty file-sharing Azureus and actually paid $120 for it). We had some major life changes: selling a condo, [...]
Next time you have an hour to kill, watch this video. It’s a speech given by Tim Keller to Google employees. Keller is a minister and he’s recently written a book that attempts to show up Dawkins and Hitchens and other atheists.
If you really want to get creative, take out a 6 pack [...]
Marines & Protesters
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My wife and I went to Target today to buy milk, deodorant, and baby sweatpants. Exciting day. On the way there, we passed a rowdy group of anti-war protesters in front of the library. They carried signs [...]
Obama wants to raise your taxes. Want proof (besides the barrage of big government ideas spewing from the Democratic Party)?
Last year he didn’t contribute anything to a tax-deferred account, despite earning over half a million dollars.
From Greg Mankiw’s (awesome) blog:
A key feature of the U.S. tax system is the option to put some income [...]
It looks as if The Family Dollar won’t be renewing its lease on Prospect Street.
I am thrilled about this development. Hopefully, some upscale gym will move in. This will enable me to do 2 things:
Regain my manly figure
Rebuild my fragile ego by inviting city-folk out to the suburbs and impressing them with the [...]
Tuck Econ professor Dean Hansen explains what happened to Bear Stearns here.
I know The Onion is just a humor site, but sometimes they’ve strangely prophetic.
In this infographic, The Onion predicts that McCain will court the hip, young blogger vote by tapping a hip, young blogger for VP.
I’m 29 and I have a blog. If there’s any doubt about my hipness, just check out this post, where [...]
New people just moved into the apartment directly above ours. Last night, we heard all kinds of banging, like they were installing shelves or putting up hundreds of picture frames.
Tonight, Greta and I were curled up in the front of the TV, enjoying an episode of Lost and eating chocolate ice cream. [...]
I’ve been playing around with Friendfeed, a lifestreaming service. You can aggregate all of your RSS feeds in one place, and follow your friends.
Great for stalking.
The setup process was easy and clean.
15 more here. Thanks to Inspire Me, Now!, an awesome design blog of daily inspirational pictures.
Greta thought this meant…
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…$3 million per week IN STAMFORD. Ha ha.
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Last night, as I was trying to understand the Bear Stearns buyout, Greta asked me a simple question: “How does this affect us?”
It’s a tough question.
In the short term, it doesn’t affect us at all. My job is secure, we don’t own a home, and we don’t plan to access our (tiny) investment portfolio [...]
