Fortune Cookie: "Your present question marks are going to succeed."

Me: "Succeed? At what?"

Fortune Cookie: "Yes."

...the Miami Heat, of all people, have just won the NBA Championship in 6 games.

Despite dropping the first two games on the road.
Despite being outscored in the series by 4 points.
Despite the vast majority of the commentators favoring the Mavericks in the series.
Despite a visibly aging Shaquille O'Neal struggling since Game 1, so many years and ( Read more... )

So last night was the Dartmouth Alumni Club's Green Key in New York event.  It was pretty well attended--when I arrived, VR was there (the tall one), as was CR '86 and JS '06.  VR was unfortunately tempted to leave by that succubus, the Chartered Financial Analyst exam, which I believe he might be taking at this very moment.  Met a bunch of other ' ( Read more... )

This one seemed too good to pass up, but ends up being really problematic.


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This first demonstration of the "People are dumb" thesis is brought to you from the good people from MSN Money. One would expect that they are capable of counting. Especially up to two ( Read more... )

I haven't read Joyce Purnick's column, but apparently this is her last one, and she has some nice parting personal words for her readers ( Read more... )

I went into work one and a half hours early this morning, because I thought I had an Excel class at 6pm, so I wanted to get the necessary work out the way first. But then, I found out that my class was scheduled for Tuesday, so I thought to myself, yay, I get to go home early. I ended up leaving at 7:15 anyway.

The best-laid plans of mice and

My boss has what I believe moroccochloe once called "an interesting relationship with the English language". He mispronounces long words occasionally, and scattered misspellings appear in his handwritten notes. (He uses spellcheck in his e-mails, sort of self-consciously.) But still, I was a little taken aback today when he said that I was "compulsive anal ( Read more... )

I didn't watch the NCAA championship, being as uninvested in that game as I possibly could be. The office pool is already decided, and I'm not particularly fond of either game. I was expecting Florida to win the match, as I told an excited colleague from UCLA; and so they did, and handily at that. But I must say that this year's match has been ( Read more... )

According to rumors, Hassan-i Sabbah, the leader of the Muslim sect called the Assassins, treated his followers to a stay at his personal garden, which had rivers of wine, exotic fruits, adoring virgins, and some amount of drugs. It was meant to be a vision of heaven, which inspired these men to carry out Hassan's orders ( Read more... )