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Self promotion, recession style
In: Miscellany
27 Jul 2009Seen on my morning commute to work. The SUV’s owner wrote “HIRE ME. SMU MBA – FINANCE.” followed by his (her?) gmail and phone number, on all three rear windows. The best part is the contrast between “MBA – FINANCE” and a medium usually reserved for highschool Homecoming. Somehow I doubt slapping “MBA” on the [...]
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- Tags: Advertising, Job hunting, Pics, Recession
Random Word Thought: Economy
In: Miscellany
4 Dec 2008“Economy” means frugal restrained, which has come to mean “cheap.” Economy class. Economy car. Economy-sized. If you’re “economical,” you’re efficient with your money and focused on reducing expenditures. So isn’t the phrase “Consumer Economy” a contradiction?
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- Tags: Language, Philology, Words
David Foster Wallace Knew Why Commencement Speeches Suck
In: Miscellany
19 Sep 2008How funny that commencement speeches are almost always boring. Except for the rare occasion, you get riled up and excited (or furious that LAST year they got BILL COSBY and THIS YEAR we get the MAYOR I mean COME ON did they even TRY? – but that, too, is tied to each class’s sense of [...]
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- Tags: College, David Foster Wallace, Speeches
Monday Schadenfreude: Left Turn Ahead OH MY GOD
28 Jul 2008Ah, Monday. What better day than Monday to take pleasure in other people’s displeasure? You’re back at work (stop reading blogs on company time, you miscreant!) and have not one, not two, but five full days before you reach 40 hours. To make you feel better, here’s a video of Houston drivers getting hit by [...]
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- Tags: Car accidents, Youtube
Nerd moment
In: Miscellany
14 Jul 2008Seen on my Sunday morning run: Finally, finally my neighborhood is constructing additional pylons.
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- Tags: Nerd moment, Starcraft
Balancing Acts: What Nazis, Communists, Americans, Iran and Roger Federer have in common
13 Jun 2008Oh dear, I’ve gone and violated Godwin’s Law. At least I got it out of the way early, which was unavoidable as the entire point of this post is a review I read of Pat Buchanan’s new book. The former Nixon Adviser/former presidential candidate/current MSNB correspondent hops aboard the World War II revisionism short bus, [...]
That old saw about hammers and nails
In: Miscellany|Writing
21 May 2008Have you ever noticed that: When you nail a point, it’s the same as when you hit the nail on the head? Both imply precision, even though nailing a picture to the wall is much different than squarely hitting a nail once. Congrats on not hitting your thumb, I guess. Then you can hammer something. [...]
It was:
In: Miscellany
15 May 2008A dark and stormy night The best of times The worst of times A pleasure to burn Like so, but wasn’t A queer, sultry summer The day my grandmother exploded A bright cold day in april Love at first sight.
