October 2008
24 posts
“Interviewer: “Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?”
Lennon:...”
Just Be Yourself Flickr
Front page of Flickr has an Oscar Wilde quote, who you fooling, it’s like:
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
Now on to the kitten pictures…
“Throw the Blackberry away and enjoy life.”
– Andrew Lahde from Guardian UK story about So long, suckers. Millionaire hedge fund boss thanks ‘idiot’ traders and retires at 37
Ryanair Prohibited Articles
Some of the funnier things listed in the Prohibited Articles section of Ryanair’s Terms & Conditions:
pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, air pistols, rifles and pellet guns. Signal flare pistols, Starter pistols, Toy guns of all types, ball bearing guns, industrial bolt and nail guns, cross bows, catapults, harpoon and spear guns, Animal humane killers, stun or shocking devices, e.g....
New MacBook Pros
I like the new MacBook Pros, they look great and have alot of new power inside them. I’m also really excited for the new trackpad. If I get past the next month without buying one, I may still have my current laptop for another 2 years.
However besides that I get really annoyed at pundits or people trying to be pundits about Apple when they release new stuff. There are the fan boys and...
“…when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in...”
– Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 (I agree, but replace London with New York and we’re in business)
Business Plans are Hard
Christian: i'm learning that it is hard to write a business plan though, cause you need to ummm, explain the whole thing, and it needs to make sense
Robert Johnson: finish it off with GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY GIMME THE MONEY
Christian: thats how I started it off
Robert Johnson: haha
Christian: i have an animated .gif of Cuba Gooding Jr.
on my cover page
Credit Crunch Even Hitting Football Teams
These headlines have hit me across the day today.
FA chief calls for prudence as debts reach £3bn
…and more recently…
UEFA issue UCL warning to debt-laden clubs
Mass Music Layoffs
Well kinda. I have so much shit on my iPod that I don’t listen to I feel it’s time to do some culling. Using shuffle is an exercise in seeing how many times I can hit next. I’m currently at 4,357 items @ 25.51GB. I’m going to aim for 3,500 or 20.49GB whichever comes second!
UPDATE: Pimsleur Japanese Lessons I - III, gone!
“They will destroy all of the flowers but they never can stop the spring.”
– Malalai Joya via BBC GlobalNews pod
Worthless? Give yours away then.
Benedict says that “now with the collapse of big banks we see that money disappears, is nothing and all these things that appear real are in fact of secondary importance.”
In other news pope appeals, ‘We need your donations’.
Quote via Yahoo via AP
Mark-to-market
I’ve been hearing ‘mark-to-market’ alot over the last two or three weeks, but just finally checked it out on Wikipedia. The initial description is a tad fuzzy, so here’s the simple example mercifully provided…
Example: If an investor owns 100 shares of a stock purchased for $40 per share, and that stock now trades at $60, the “mark-to-market” value of...
Cabs
Our cab ride from Heathrow to Clerkenwell earlier today was £85 ($149) for 17.9 miles. Compare to $50 ($45 flat fare and a fiver tip) for a typical JFK to Times Square (17.9 (weird right?) miles) cab ride in New York. The cabs in Tokyo are supposed to be even more expensive (Rumors were $300 from Narita to downtown Tokyo), but we only took two for very short distances.
Hey Everyone!
I’m in London now! I should be taking more pictures and experiencing more, um, experiences to post here soon. For now, faster updates will happen via Flickr and Twitter.