Variations of rye, lemon juice, and Benedictine.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
In the News
US midterm elections are next week. Lots in thew news about that. A conversation with our resident conservative ("to the right of Atilla the Hun") reveals near pity for Obama's campaign efforts. For myself, from what I've read, things won't be too bad for the Democrats. What I'm concerned about is some of the reasoning I've heard for Tea Party candidates: "they're not Democrats." That's as bas as a Democrat who votes for a bad Democrat because "They're not Republicans". I'm really unhappy with how polarized politics has become - though to be fair, I can remember back to Reagan's first campaign for President, and it wasn't much better then than now, or at any point along the way.
Apple is apparently not going to sell their white iPhone 4G, ever, which is a shame because I was thinking I would buy one. Apparently there are problems with light leaking through the white material to the camera lens, so photos and videos are blown out. Guess I'll go back to my original plan of waiting for iPhone 5 . . .and getting an Android device.
Will someone please debunk this video clip of a "cel phone in Charlie Chaplin film" clip that is going around? Does anyone realize that for someone to use the phone, they would also have to time travel back a cellular network . . .which you'd think someone would have noticed when the modern network was rolled out?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Speed
September went by fast. October is going even faster.
Weird to realize that I was actually finishing up a summer class the week before Labor Day. I had to write a long paper (apparently, not long enough). And then fall classes started up at the end of September, which was just two weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime.
I'm taking three courses, two of which dovetail nicely: Corporate Governance and Bankruptcy. The first focuses on how boards of firms and non-profits make decisions and do their job; recently we have focused on CEO compensation. The Bankruptcy class is taught by Ed Altman, something of a father in the field, and focuses on measuring risk and identifying firms that can be invested in during a distressed state. Several guess speakers from either class may as well have addressed the other. Where was Lehman's board in the run-up to it bankruptcy? How do boards manage their managers in a turnaround situation? It's all very, very interesting.
Alas, it goes by very quickly. Both of these courses are six weeks long, and we are already three weeks in to the semester. I have papers due in each next week.
In the meantime, the weather has turned from warm to mild to downright chilly; the Indian Summer evening of Fashion Night Out has been replaced by a snap that requires layers in the morning. In just over a month it will be Thanksgiving, and then sure enough Christmas. My life is planned out at work as projects underway should hopefully be resolved by then.
Then, there is also the Big Project, which will have to be detailed in another post.
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