A corporation has bought Cody's Books. I hope it improves more than it worsens. Ideas for t-shirts I would wear:I Have A Work Ethic Woohoo, I'm Married! Someday I Will Be Successful Courtesy Is Awesome …
Homework for the second Technology in the Business Environment class (this coming Tuesday): read five book chapters, and write a two-page analysis of different valuation structures at my workplace. Homework for the second Corporate Finance …
Tonight I start a four-semester Master's program at Columbia: the Executive Master of Science in Technology Management, offered by the School of Continuing Education. Finance, psych, marketing, planning, history, law, that sort of stuff. My …
How to use Google as a calculator. Tip: Don't try using π; just type "pi".
Last month, the smart and charismatic Susan Crawford spoke to the New York Tech Meetup about OneWebDay. I'll have to do some interesting blogging that day, celebrating all the wonderful things the Web has given …
Jon Stewart's crew actually doesn't push the Orwell/Huxley jokes that much. But The Daily Show a few nights ago, in a four-minute piece on propaganda, did a very unexpected 1984/They Live/1984 Mac ad reference. It's …
The geek social fallacies. Looking back, I've had mild cases of 1, 4, and 5. I can identify at least three past or present acquaintances with symptoms of more virulent strains of all five.
I generally enjoy Steve Yegge's blog posts; you can find lots of adoring swooning to that effect in my archives from the past year. Recently he posted some thoughts that weren't out of the ordinary …
