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 […]
The Vatican recently announced new areas of sinful behavior. (This is not an Onion article…this is for real)
I am so thankful, Jesus, that you’re keeping up with the times, but I’m a little peeved about Your communication style. These new sins were announced FOUR DAYS AGO! For Christ’s sake I had to read about it […]
I’m not sure I can do more than 20. I’m pretty out of shape. I know, it’s despicable. And hard to believe, given my physique. But it’s true.
The Washington Post recently published this table, which allows you to benchmark yourself against your peers.
Here are some of the better blog entries on the Bear Stearns situation:
1. from Greg Mankiw, economist at Harvard (his blog is EXCELLENT by the way)
2. from The Big Picture
So my wheels are starting to turn a bit…is this a government bailout? At first, I thought it was simply a government loan to ensure […]
Various news sources report that midtown real estate goes for about $1,000 per square foot. At 1.2 million square feet, Bear Stearns’ headquarters on Madison Avenue is worth about $1.2 billion.
Yet shareholders are only getting $240 million.
Which means that either a) there is something seriously upside-down about BS’s balance sheet, or b) there is […]
At first I thought it was a typo by a hurried reporter….$2/share for Bear Stearns? The thing was trading at like $65 a few days ago. It closed at $30 on Friday.
My first reaction is that due diligence must have turned up some evidence of fraud. But the stories at wsj and […]
i am a perfectionist.
i strive to get 120% of the answer and I don’t care if it takes 200% percent of the time. unfortunately, I’m not that great at getting even 50% of the answer and my co-workers care greatly about how long it takes. sometimes i wonder whether i’ve picked the right […]
Turns out I had 880 unique visitors over the last 30 days. That’s a lot.
1 person in Afghanistan spent 7 minutes on Herbietown. Who are you? One of America’s soldiers? A small child looking to build a better life? I’m dying to know who you are….please comment here.
More interesting visitor stats to come…when I have […]
From Warren Buffet’s 2007 letter to shareholders:
The best anecdote I’ve heard during the current presidential campaign came from Mitt Romney, who asked his wife, Ann, “When we were young, did you ever in your wildest dreams think I might be president?” To which she replied, “Honey, you weren’t in my wildest dreams.”
So there I was, walking through grand central to catch a train.
My brain was still spinning from a long day at work, and I was doing my thing where I obsess about whether I’m actually smart enough to do my job. (I know what you’re thinking: “chris, you’re the most brilliant person I’ve […]
