These are the bands I want to see this week during CMJ2009! Let me know if you plan to make any. (*** Indicates I am planning to go, but check my twitter for latest updates) ***Washed Out – @ Santos Party House – Monday October 18th. Not a CMJ show but going to be incredible. [...]
Along the lines of …”Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime” I was walking down the street the other day in my neighborhood (East Village, NYC) and noticed a homeless lady collecting recyclable trash. I thought why not [...]
Be skeptical when the market rallies off no good news. We could be in for worse things to come. Good article in the times outlining the problems overlooked in yesterday’s job report: Grim Job Report Not Showing Full Picture “As bad as the headline numbers in Friday’s employment report were, they still made the job [...]
Update December 6, 2008 – Looking back on my previous post, what a change the market has taken. If you stayed long RSX and INFY and CCJ and C you would have lost a lot of money, but if you kept your portfolio hedged with the double-short Dow ETF, DXD, you would be ok. Citi [...]
Go over to BlogMaverick, and read Mark Cuban’s rules for startups. “..we had a company shot. Kamikaze. We would take people to a bar every now and then and buy one or 10 for everyone.” Sounds like a great way to keep morale and alcoholism high.
ethanol is distracting us from real energy conservation, from better fuel efficiency. increasing the price of food, giving subsidies to special interest groups. we should be importing sugar ethanol from brazil. Sugar ethanol imports ->lower ethanol prices ->lower corn prices ->lower agriculture commodity prices -> lower food prices -> lower inflation -> more room for [...]
Back, way back it seems, in 2004 when I got excited about social networks and connection applications on the web I realized that the end result was not to create a social networking website to have a social network. Up until now, all the sites (facebook, myspace, etc) have been digitizing our human relationships and [...]
You’ve got to see this documentary Why We Fight – A Film By Eugene Jarecki examining the reasons, justifications, and lies used to put us to war. Its not an in-your-face Michael Moor-ish piece, but filled with many reputable participants and interviewees. The military-industrial complex seems real AND frightening to the freedom of self-determination and [...]
This album is siccccc. checkout this beatmaster, multi-genre sampler extraordinaire. My favorite song isn’t on his album, its Grizzly Bear – Knife (girl Talk Remix) which remixes the song with Clipse – Wamp Wamp What it do What it do. Listen to it here.
Drinkin’ Time Dartmouth students playing a funny prank on a tour group. Or is that just normal at Dartmouth?
