Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Jack Ayer is right about (among other things) cell phones and cats.

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See here .
Monday, November 28, 2011

Shameless groveling for free dance competition entries.

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The folks who own the Vegas Open Dance Challenge are having a photo contest, and the pic with the most likes on it gets some free entries. ...

Enron in retrospective.

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BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money asked me a bit about Enron, 10 years later ( interview starts around minute 27:30 ), or click here ...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

*SNORK* (the sound of snorting laughter)

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See here . Hat tips to Brazen and Tenured and The Faculty Lounge .
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Why giving up my Droid X was worth over a thousand dollars to me.

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I thought I was smart. I thought I was a rebel. I thought that I could avoid going all-in on Apple products. I thought that having a phone...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Newest "guilty pleasure" blog--update.

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See here .  Hat tip to Brian Leiter . UPDATE:  From my buddy George Connelly :  In my humble opinion, the "feel good" aspects of...

From the sharp eyes of my buddy Bruce Quinn.

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Bruce forwarded this article on cat agility ( here ) to me today. Am now reading the article to Grace and Shadow, who don't seem to hav...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Congress gave medals to four of my heroes.

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See here .  Then read Homer Hickam's op-ed ( here ). 
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Why I love Steve Lubben's work, part n.

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See his two recent Dealbook columns , linked in this post at Credit Slips .
Monday, November 14, 2011

Why military veterans make great students.

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See today's New York Times story here .
Thursday, November 10, 2011

A very smart bit of advice for college football fans.

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See here .  Hat tip to Scott Unger .

GoDaddy's 236th birthday tribute to the Marines, and a list of a few of my favorite former Marines.

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GoDaddy (which I use) has just impressed me even more ( here ).  And here's a listing of some of my favorite former Marines (in additio...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Poignant articles on the housing crisis.

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In today's New York Times ( here ).
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Happy birthday to my beloved Marine Corps!

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What can I say?  I have friends in pretty much every branch of the service (although I have no Coast Guard friends yet), and I'm in awe ...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Giving kudos (and buying ice cream) for 'fessing up to mistakes.

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I've been meaning to post a link to this New York Times story about how to encourage learning from mistakes ( here ) for a while.  The ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Dear Ulta.com:

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If you're going to send me a $15 gift card to make up for messing up a prior order, perhaps that gift card should actually work on a su...
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Here's to contractions.

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Loved John Kang 's post over at The Faculty Lounge ( here ).  I've been known to yank (invited) pieces from journals when they mess...

Let's keep watching the Gupta insider trading case.

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Today's Wall Street Journal describes the nuanced issues in this case ( here ). My take?  As long as boards are composed of people wh...

Welcome back, Jack the Norwegian Forest Cat!

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See here .

Enron rap--a new classic.

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Hat tip to Jackie Benson (who happens to be exceptionally smart, talented, and fun to know) and Above the Law .  You can listen to it here ...