funny

This site really cracked me up. 

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

today

This article tells the story of a man who is losing his battle with credit. I used to think that the only people who fell into these holes were those who didn't understand finance. But this guy is an economics writer from the New York Times, and he's telling us the story of how it happened to him!

Unbelievable!

It's one thing if he couldn't afford to make mortgage payments because he lost job, but this guy just got himself into a mortgage he couldn't afford in the first place! He never lost his job. Unbelievably irresponsible.

JUST BUY THE SMALLER HOUSE!!

quick question

I've seen a lot cars with a lot of borderline useless features, so why have I yet to see a u-turn signal?

conversation I had with Cindy the other day

Cindy:  "How do these jeans look?"

Me:  "They make you look fat."

Cindy: "..."

Me:  "Turn around..."

Cindy:  (turns around)

Me: "Oh yeah, they really do. Don't get those."

Cindy:  "..."

Me:  "Seriously, don't get those."

conversation I had today with a friend

"How many nights per week do you eat steak?"

"For dinner?"

"Yeah."

"... Seven."

iPhone Commercial

Cindy and I have iPhones, so after watching a commercial that demonstrated a few of the phone's many applications that ended by saying, "There's an app for just about anything", we couldn't help but wonder:

Is there an app for better phone reception?

How about longer battery life?

and if so, where do I find them?

three of these bullshit posts in a row

I don't like these blog entries, I'm not even sure that they're better than nothing. But here's another one on some things from today

There are a lot of blogs and message boards popping up out there for the disgruntled young attorney, one of my co-workers loves them, he reads me his favorite stuff at work. The issue people are having with law school these days can be boiled down to this: schools GREATLY exaggerate their post graduate employment statistics in order to lure potential students to take out six figure loans for tuition. (They criminally exaggerate the statistics. It really should be criminal. We should be writing our congressmen, because what they do with those employment statistics is nothing short of fraud.) And tuition has SKYROCKETED in the last decade. So now a lot of recent law school grads are out there with six figure student loan debt, and no job. And the worst part is that student loans can't be discharged via bankruptcy... so if I had $150,000 in student loan debt, I would probably move to Toronto, or maybe Mumbai.

I used to hear people say that there are too many lawyers in America, and after becoming one, I realize that those people are right. Society NEEDS lawyers. Just not as many as it has produced; and certainly not lawyers out there trying to make as much money as they think they are supposed to make.

(Fortunately, I am not in the position I just described... I loved law school, have mid-five figure debt, and did not expect a job upon graduation; I just wanted the time off from work)

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I didn't even read this article about legalizing marijuana, but I saw it today after logging out from my e-mail. I'm in favor of legalizing it, but I think its sale should be tightly governed. It's not for everyone, but if it is marketed like Budweiser or Miller Lite, it is going to forced down the throat of every kid in America. I just think that marijuana is the type of thing where people should be allowed to make up their own minds about it. You almost want to cap the amount of profit a company can make from it to deter the modern day large scale American entrepreneur from marketing it. Don't make it about the money. (or else I'd just prefer it remain illegal)

quick

How many times a week does God eat Chipotle?

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This site is cool, it shows how many sugar is in a lot of the food we eat. I guess it doesn't mean that much to me since I don't know how unhealthy sugar actually is... but still interesting. I probably wouldn't sit down and eat a dozen sugar cubes, but I've eaten many a bag of Skittles.

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I read this column about the new A-Rod biography today and had this question: When someone writes a negative book about a celebrity and cites a bunch of "unnamed sources", are we to assume that those particular stories are fictitious? Maybe the writer is just trying to cash in, so she writes a book that is 90% honest, but makes up a few headline worthy stories to get her book mentioned in the press. It's not like people are going to return the book in five years after finding out the stories were false.

link dump

I surf the web at work, so here are some thoughts from today (I'll try to keep them short):

- Better Trades - I came across a "Better Trades" infomercial Saturday morning, and wished it was illegal. They teach people how to make money in stock market. The informercial is full of satisfied client testimonials, "I made $110,000 my first month", "I made $22,000 my first week", and even "I made $11,000 my first hour." I hate everything about this. I am a puritan when it comes to capital markets. Better Trades probably just teaches people how to take advantage of market inefficiencies to make quick money. But as recent events have shown: THERE IS NO WAY TO ELIMINATE RISK. There is risk attached to that dollar bill in your wallet.

- Gladwell essay - I like the way Malcolm Gladwell weaves anecdotes into his theories, and I enjoyed reading this little essay today... a couple of thoughts on it: 1) I wanted to write a blog entry a couple of years ago comparing George Washington's surprise attack on Christmas of 1776, to a modern day terrorist act. I liked the idea, but writing it didn't sound like fun at all; but Gladwell kind of addresses that stuff here. And 2) When I read essays like this, I rarely check the authenticity of their examples. But in this one, Gladwell used an example that I knew to be an exaggeration -- when he made it seem like Rick Pitino used the full court press to win at Kentucky without great players; it wasn't the crux of his argument at all, he should have just left out that entire section, but it makes me wonder about the use of anecdotal evidence in essays like this (in general.) 

- Retirement of David Souter - I'd like to read more about him, seems like a very interesting character