February 2012
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keyholez:
JPMorgan’s chief information officer told me that one of the challenges he’s faced recently is setting up Jamie Dimon’s work computer to be able to view YouTube and Facebook without restrictions.
“There is no room for inefficiencies. The gal conducting our training reminds us...”
– I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
“You really can’t organise a modern industrial society on the basis of organising...”
– via
“But I digress (something impossible to avoid in writing about Errol Morris). I wanted to tell you about his private-eye trick, which he learned from a hard-bitten partner.
It wasn’t a blackjack-, brass knuckles-type thing. “It went like this,” Morris explained. “He’d knock on a door, sometimes of someone not even connected to the case they were investigating. He’d flip open his wallet,...
“I was in the typing pool, and I lost my virginity to the account executive on...”
– The British are very excited about the Mad Men premier
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“Strict Muslims who get angry if they miss Friday prayers or if they see a woman...”
– Are they really religious?
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Dad: My brother was working on Saipan, clearing up the piles of munitions that were sitting around after the end of WWII. His commanding officer was a horrible son-of-a-bitch. And the enlisted men thought this lieutenant was determined to have them killed on some suicidal bomb disposal job. So they had this Japanese rifle and all they needed was the right ammunition. And you know there were still...
“A lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn appeared to confirm that he had attended the...”
– NYT
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“But like all the other internal contradictions that seem to endlessly fascinate...”
– Moe Tkacik
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Holy fucking shit.
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting for 30 years after the end of WWII, is still alive. He’s 89! He spends a lot of time in Brazil!
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“At the health department, they were told that all the shareholders of the...”
– Starting an internet retailer in Greece can be challenging.
I question the long term viability of any nation state which legislates pixelated genitals in pornography.
What is your take on Chaz, Cher’s son? I think he’s a brave man.
BS: Oh, I’m gonna get in such trouble for this. Are you ready? I’m sure Cher is more upset that Chaz is fat. Knowing Cher and how she feels about thin people and fat people, I can tell you this: she has no time for fat people. None. So Chaz—whether when he was a lesbian as Chastity or a man as Chaz—is fat. That probably bothers...
Hitler had son with French teen →
Although he never officially had any sons or daughters of his own, Hitler often spoke of his love of children and animals.
NYT - Correspondent Anthony Shadid dies in Syria →
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About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation.
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons...
“Chapter 10: Making the world your bitch. Once again, I’m with the hottest...”
– Kenny Powers
Your hand and arm will really hurt this morning if a pickup truck almost backs over you in downtown Atlanta and you punch a door so hard your knuckles start to bleed and Dunkin Donuts had a long line of conventioneers so now you’re drinking a diet coke instead of a gigantic life affirming cup of caffeine and the Asian girl next to you is complaining about her test in Intermediate Accounting...
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Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has now bounced to a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination
Santorum: Birth control ‘harmful to women
“Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, who made $500 million betting against subprime...”
– Thank you Bloomberg for encouraging my week long obsession with real estate investing.
dil·et·tante
A person who claims an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
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“As I’ve noted before, tenured academics has worked a great scam. ...”
– Megan!
““What’s a common thing you find laying around any farm besides a cow? A big old...”
– Stop watching the Walking Dead and just read Videogum’s reviews
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“Unlike Michael Jackson, who controlled much of his music, Houston did not enjoy...”
– Whitney Houston/Much less than a million dollars/You feel me?/Holla
A good rule of thumb for saving for retirement is to divide your current income after taxes by the number of times you masturbated to the music video for Fiona Apple’s ‘Criminal’ at age 13.