Archive for March, 2008

Strange Culture about Steve Kurtz

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Just netflixed Strange Culture, about the artist Steve Kurtz and the ridiculous, arrogant bastard justice department on a crusade against him and his artwork.

Cornell loses to Stanford

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Cornell loses to Stanford:

With the 7-foot Lopez twins altering shots inside and defenders in the face of Cornell’s perimeter shooters, it didn’t take an Ivy League degree to figure out the Big Red was in big trouble.

I think this makes three or four NCAA tournament players I’ve played against – Tim Young the was the first (seventh grade) and two or three from Cornell from pickup games.

At least the NYT has another good story about Cornell (thanks B).

My pick is Cornell to win it all

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Cornell in the NCAA tournament:

Apparently our team made an impression on the Wildcats; many of us overheard one of Kentucky’s players remark, “They look like a high school team.”

Tibet

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

It’s easy right now to be worried about the economy, our jobs and our investments. At the moment though, I’m just happy to not live in Tibet.

Investment banking in a nutshell

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Help me understand investment banking if you can… as I see it, the business follows the “business cycle” with just two phases: 1) make up a bubble and earn record bonuses; then 2) d’oh! find out that all that money never really existed in the first place, but get bailed out by the government. Convenient.

CNN: What’s the best city in America?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

CNN wants to know what’s the best city in America? Take the survey and if you want to be right, choose Seattle!

Thanks for the chemistry homework

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Today someone I don’t know faxed me six pages of extra credit homework for a chem 106 class. If they knew my chem grades… they definitely would have asked someone else to look it over. Well, Emmie Johnson, I did what I could to help you out before sending it on to the correct fax number.