I just got back to the office after a couple hours spent at Berkeley for the annual GeoEngineering seminar. (I only stayed around for the first lecture since it involved my current work.)
In a roomful of a hundred or so alumni, four of them were my former bosses. I understand that this industry makes a small world, but that was unexpected. No hard feelings, of course, except one terse glare from my most recent boss. Get over it.
It was the single best piece of journalism I have seen (outside of PBS) in weeks. Jon Stewart started off the second-half of his conversation with the GOP nominee for president, John McCain, on last night's Daily Show...
Will you take the opportunity right now to repudiate and denounce President Bush?
This is the recent advice I gave a friend for his resume... Make it fit on one page, and use a different font than Times New Roman. Any font, just not Times New Roman.
"What do you have against Times New Roman?" I was asked.
It means that you didn't make any effort beyond turning on your computer and opening up Word. You simply use the default settings. And you'll most likely send your resume with your Hotmail account using Internet Explorer. It's pathetic. And I wouldn't hire you.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on. [An Associated Press article] found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." -- Hillary Clinton, yesterday.
I am not really sure how to interpret Hillary Clinton's desperate campaign, and her insistence on continuing the campaign, despite the insurmountable evidence that she cannot win the nomination. It is getting to the point where Hillary has become delusional.
Does Clinton want the VP nomination? If so, her continual campaign is hurting those chances, despite the media's portrayal that this is a "dream ticket" in the making.
Does Clinton believe the numbers still add-up? She is counting almost exclusively on winning over superdelegates, who would have to overturn the decision of the voters, a hard-sell in a 24-hour news-cycle society.
Does Clinton truly believe that Obama is unelectable? By delaying the obvious, the nomination of Barack Obama, she is only hurting democratic chances in 2008 if she continues to point out flaws in the eventual nominee.
I still believe that this is all a ruse -- a Clintonian plot to retain some level of power, be it a VP or cabinet slot, for herself or others -- and that the New York senator will bow out (gracefully) in the next week or so. Unless she wins West Virginia huge. Then it is a toss-up. Because if she can win West Virginia, she should be president.
You've read it here first. Or you read it elsewhere, and then were reminded here.
With Obama's big victory in North Carolina and close loss in Indiana (including a measurable effect from Rush Limbaugh), Obama has effectively sewn up the nomination. Hillary Clinton has zero chance with very little supporting evidence that she should continue her campaign for the presidency. Someone high up in the democratic party -- Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, George McGovern (done), her husband -- someone -- will have to make Hillary realize this, that she needs to concede the nomination. I am guessing that this will occur sometime this week.
Clinton's math and her arguments for extending her campaign do not add-up. Barack Obama has won the nomination... Obama vs. McCain in 2008.
This was a pretty darn good movie caught in a year full of pretty darn good movies. Julia Roberts' performance brings down the film overall, but that is expected. I have a bias towards films that are based on true events.
(Returned 05/06/08.)
This is just another reason it is frustrating using Microsoft Word in a technical field...
Half-assed built-in financial functions in Excel (read: useless), and a challenged lexicon -- at best -- in Word.
While reading about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo bid (which may still happen), it was mentioned how Yahoo! has historically overpaid for the acquisitions it has purchased over the years, including nearly 5 billion dollars spent on GeoCities, the personal homepage service (now mostly defunct), in 1999. Ahh, the height of the dot-com bubble.
Graphing the full historical record of the NASDAQ index shows us how steep that bubble actually was...
Image: CNN Money.com
This plot shows the trend that the technology sector is on today is pretty much the trend that the sector would have been on if it weren't for the period of "irrational exuberance" that took over in the second-half of the 90s. The most-recent downturn may be a temporary release of pressure, although larger in scale than typical releases, or it may be a response to the current credit crisis.
I might be too generous with one star, but there were some Seinfeldian moments that kept this film afloat. What is it with Dreamworks? Why does every story need to be humanized? This is the exact same story as Shark Tale except with bees. Yes, the bees must watch TV, and they must have a Larry King. Haha. The same jokes; the same stale humor.
(Returned 05/06/08.)
