I am not making this up. Things I don’t understand: Japanese popular culture The very idea of “cell phone charms” Things I do understand: Drunkenness Drunkenness coming in stages These things come together in the “drunken salaryman” charms, which I recently read about at Inventorspot. The stages of being dunk [sic] according to these little plastic dudes are: The Lecturing… Read more →
Day: March 20, 2008
If I Were Him, I’d Just Be Saying “Told You So” All Day Long
Just for fun, let’s look at what Paul Krugman wrote five years ago. Snippet one, concerning the U.S. finances: Meanwhile, consider this: we need $400 billion a year of foreign investment to cover our trade deficit, or the dollar will plunge and our surging budget deficit will become much harder to finance — and there are already signs that the… Read more →
Understanding How Greed Hosed The Economy Again
If you had trouble following the last presentation I linked to that explained the subprime crisis and how it’s affecting the broader investment community, then you don’t have a chance with the NYT piece that attempts to take on the same task. If you could handle the stick figures though, you might want to give the piece a try. It… Read more →
Well, that confounds expectations
You are about 20 years old The teen repellent will no longer foil you, but you can still hear some pretty high tones. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 16.7kHz Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear! It’s not superhuman, but not bad for a 35-year old. I guess getting those ear plugs at… Read more →
