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• finance, politics

  Turns out your senators _are_ good for something…

  10.30.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Managing money. Not taxpayers, of course, but their own. The finance page of the Oct. 31 New Yorker tells us that in a study of 6,000 transactions between 1993 and 1998, senators beat the market, on average, by 12% annually.
  Statistics alone never indicted anybody, but in a world in which fund managers that beat the [...]

• politics

  The VP of torture

  10.30.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Washington Post reports that Cheney asked for a CIA exemption to senate bill banning torture, after the bill passed 90-9. Cheney made a huge mistake to take on McCain right on - McCain comes out looking principled and the administration loses even more credibility.

  The proposal, which two sources said Vice President Cheney handed last [...]

• finance

  Sam’s finance blog roundup

  10.23.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Primarily for Cookie, though others might be interested. These are the finance blogs I read daily:

  The Big Picture: lots of cool charts and comments on the macro picture. Beware of the chartist mumbo-jumbo (ie, the market has gone up 2% every day following a world series win by the National League, therefore…).
  Jeff Mathews is not [...]

• personal

  I guess all babies are cute

  10.21.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I guess all babies are cute

  Originally uploaded by smooth.

  Can you ever really know if your baby is as cute as you think he is? As a parent you (and your family) clearly can’t be objective. All the doctors and nurses might say he’s cute, but would they say otherwise? Is there a hotornot.com for babies?

• personal

  If it’s not one thing it’s another

  10.21.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  How can one little 5 lb person create so much work? I never imagined that having a baby could be a full-time job for three people, but it sure is. There’s always something to be done: laundry, cooking, dishes, diapers, feeding, napping…

• personal

  Niko Thomas Tingleff

  10.16.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Niko Thomas Tingleff

  Originally uploaded by smooth.

  This is Niko TT. He was born at 5:06 this morning to two very happy (and tired) parents and with his nice aunt Meagan helping. He was nice enough to obey daddy’s first request, which was to have his 0th birthday on the 16th of the month just like his [...]

• personal

  Quoted in the Cornell Alumni Magazine

  10.15.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the latest issue of the Cornell Alumni Magazine:

  After BRV invests, the real work begins, says Sam Tingleff, MBA ‘05. “We come in and provide capital and some labor - maybe have an intern help write a marketing plan - and take them to the point where they can take their products to market [...]

• politics

  Staged teleconference: “I like you”

  10.14.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Bush Teleconference with Soldiers Staged

• personal

  2006 election

  10.13.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Is it too early to start thinking about 2006 mid-term elections? The red is looking very marginalized on these maps.

• personal

  Another Azteca dinner

  10.11.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Another Azteca dinner

  Originally uploaded by smooth.

  Does Mexican food really induce labor? We’ll never truly know, since we eat it every night.

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