December 2008
69 posts
Cookie making with a gun. http://twitpic.com/vzso
Prep for ugly sweater XMas party in NJ. At port authority http://twitpic.com/us8x
This is how you tell a love story. So good. If you don’t get misty, then I can’t help you. http://is.gd/cHSA
Don’t know if it’s cos I’m a newbie, a sap, super tired or what but I’m very much enjoying NY Mag’s reasons to love NYC.
Starting XMas shopping now that schools done. XMas music in stores is awful.
Just saw someone grab Huff Po’s complete guide to bloggin at B&N. Now I must take a peek too.
Not trying to brag, not trying to jinx anything, but at this point you can pretty much consider me a MASTER of journalism.
(BN) Paulson May Seek Next $350 Billion in Bailout...
Bloomberg News, sent from my iPhone. Paulson May Seek Next $350 Billion in Financial-Rescue Funds Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson may ask Congress for the second half of the $700 billion bank rescue program, concerned that the deepening recession may spark further financial turmoil. Paulson could soon exhaust the first $350 billion with the bailout that President...
ANOTHER 12.0 FROM FLESCH KINCAID! I’M ON FIRE WITH THESE PAPERS! (figuratively.)
Home stretch. Wrap up this paper on SOX and then one more thing and I am officially a Master of journalism.
Just when I’m wrapping up, I’m starting to warm to all this economic history stuff I’m doing. Whoda thunk.
Questions on national defense anyone? http://twitpic.com/tpz1
I’m at the council on foreign relations for my last class ever. Come and get me. http://snipurl.com/8ppj2
F the recession fool! I’m Drowing my worries about money in 20K Bottles of champagne! $$ http://is.gd/cbJz
Just got a 12.0 on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level for my essay on the Great Depression from Word. That pretty much guarantees an A, no?
Google is flushing cash down the toilet on super fancy toilets. $GOOG http://is.gd/c0Vv
Web Video Ads Slowing Too →
Huh? →
Blogs Are Untrustworthy →
Sitting in the front of a UHaul studying the G. Depression. Just like the old tymers used to.
UPDATE: I am now in the back of the UHaul reading about the Great Depression.
To the subway!
Magazine Ad Sales →
Pondering Sarbanes-Oxley, Fiscal Stimulus, and the inability of academics to write in English.
Paul Domowitch: NFL is not poor, and layoffs are... →
My Dad got an iPhone. Worlds are colliding.
Heroes: Bush Comes Under Shoe Attack in Baghdad →
The Associated Press: Estonia to vote by mobile... →
Parliament has approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone.
Lawmakers approved a measure Thursday allowing citizens to vote by mobile phone in the next parliamentary elections in 2011.
Estonians were allowed to cast Internet ballots in last year’s parliamentary vote.
The mobile-voting system, which has already been tested, requires that voters obtain...
FT.com / Companies / Financials - Goldman predicts... →
Simple Explaination Of Sarbanes Oxley
Let: Ppn = probability of prosecution under non-compliance. Ppn (0, 1). Ppc = probability of prosecution under complete-compliance. Ppc (0, 1). Pta= probability of corporate tax audit. Pta (0,1). Fc =estimated/statutory fine/penalty for company if convicted – lost wages, monetary fines, etc. Fc (0, ∞). Fe = estimated/statutory total fines/penalties for top ten managers if convicted. Fe...
Bad news for anyone planning on talking to me in the near future or expecting work from me. My brain melted, it no longer works.
The Great Panic Of 2008 Is Nameless
An Economic Mess That Eludes Description - NYTimes.com
This is the problem with newspapers. The above linked story takes you a piece on the lack of a name for the financial crisis. It’s an idea that’s been often discussed in classrooms and newsrooms across the country for a while now. Finally, the New York Times decides to ‘report’ on it. Fine.
But they decided to report...
Oh, and I had to drop @cpdix class because I didn’t know how to do financial modeling—a shame.
Long inside joke I wrote about @AFBL chuckers a few years ago. Holds up shockingly well. Great read for 15 people http://tinyurl.com/5aget5
Is this an odd story or am I a cheap date? Eating out for 2 under $100, like it’s a challenge http://is.gd/b1gD
Blago wanted to be president in 2016? http://is.gd/aUdq
$$ FCC head Kevin Martin got ripped! Good thing everyone’s focused on Blago today. http://is.gd/aU3U
AppleInsider | Rumor: Apple's iTunes going... →
Leno Stays At NBC, Goes On Earlier →
Bad day for newspapers. My 4,000 word feature published for NYU’s BER Times on what the future holds for the industry: http://is.gd/aLTy
A Few Ways To Fix Newspapers →
I have an unexplainable, irrational disdain for files on my desktop. If only that fastidiousness carried over to the rest of my life.
Just got static electricity shocks in my ears taking off my coat.
RT @howardlindzon: Bloomberg is 1000 miles ahead of any media company.
“It happens several times a day now. Ever since I opened my Twitter account...”
– MediaShift . Dealing with Friend Inflation on Twitter, Digg | PBS
“It was a silly incident,” Rose said. “I was cutting up some food and...”
– Rose injured. You gotta hear how. | Full-court Press
““Indeed, Merrill’s decision to be taken over by Bank of America...”
– NY AG: Merrill CEO Thain’s Bonus Appears To Be Unjustified
“Who knows, there may be a cause that pops out that I decide it’s worth...”
– Shepard Fairey Was Not Trying to Make Money Off of Those Obama Posters — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine
Bailout funds down to $15 billion - Dec. 8, 2008 →