November 2009
18 posts
Loan Modifications Under Pressure - WSJ.com →
Keep an eye on the ballooning uninitiated forclosure filings in the immediate future (likely early Q1 2010).  We are so fucked.
Nov 29th
Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine →
Brilliant.  Via Jeff Atwood at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
Nov 23rd
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WatchWatch
merlin: Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain The idea of the lizard brain is this: it is hungry, it is scared, it is selfish, and it is horny. That’s it’s job, and that’s all it does. […] “How am I gonna survive? How am I gonna have kids? Get me out of here!”
Nov 22nd
28 notes
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Nov 21st
6 tags
SouthWest Miracle Flight #309
Whilst traveling from Baltimore to West Palm Beach on business this week, 28 senior citizens required wheelchairs and pre-boarded flight #309.  Upon arrival, only five needed wheelchairs to exit the aircraft! Hallelujah!
Nov 20th
5 tags
Thank you
I want to send a very special thanks to the young (old) lovely (hideous) woman in seat 18D on last night’s West Palm Beach-bound flight for deeming an egg salad dinner appropriate to share with her 160 passengers on a 2.5 hour flight. The smell brought me back to college fraternity days, after a house full of guys consumed nothing but Jreck’s pepperoni subs for four days and then...
Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
2 tags
Lloyd: You're it.
Harry: You're it.
Lloyd: You're it, quitsies!
Harry: Anti-quitsies, you're it, quitsies, no anti-quitsies, no startsies!
Lloyd: You can't do that!
Harry: Can too!
Lloyd: Cannot, stamp it!
Harry: Can too, double stamp it, no erasies!
Lloyd: Cannot, triple stamp, no erasies, Touch blue make it true.
Harry: No, you can't do that... you can't triple stamp a double stamp, you can't triple stamp a double stamp! Lloyd!
Lloyd: [hands over ears] LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Harry: LLOYD! LLOYD!
Nov 16th
Nov 15th
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Peter: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
Nov 15th
3 tags
Why am I self-destructing?
I lost a good chunk of my selling week to blind rage towards an SVP who vultured into my business and stole one of my team members for a position outside my team. Said SVP didn’t notify me.  Said SVP told rep to “keep it quiet” and “not tell anyone”.  I found out about her new role on an open conference call the day it happened. Rules — which once outlined an...
Nov 15th
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Peggy Noonan: We're Governed by Callous Children -... →
Nov 15th
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WatchWatch
Lum Lum hits another home run.
Nov 14th
3 tags
WatchWatch
I could do this all day.
Nov 14th
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WatchWatch
Last one. I promise.
Nov 14th
1 tag
“Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an...”
– Steve Martin
Nov 12th
52 notes
1 tag
“Whenever locking a car first made the horn honk is when things really started...”
– Merlin Mann
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th