September 2008
39 posts
777 point market drop - wiped out over $1trn of wealth, more than the $700bn “bailout” would have cost
#umhk watching the Michigan replay at the keg. Wisconsin fans are even here
Wolverines in Hong Kong: Wisconsin →
It is just pissing down rain, no desire to go outside
yet another typhoon outside; sadly, I think it’ll blow over by the morning meaning no snow day
“Chicken Parm Inflation
it’s the little things you really start to miss...”
– Midtown Lunch » Chicken Parm Inflation
“Freunde 08/09.”
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Facial Recognition →
Picasa now has a facial recognition feature built in. Having lived in tourist cities for the last 4 years, I wonder how many pictures I would be in the background of if you could run this on all their images.
“All crises have involved debt, which in some fashion or another becomes...”
– The Icahn Report™: Corporate Waste Brings this Nation Closer to the Brink
Weekend Reading →
I normally try and find a few articles here and there, but as finance is the name of the game at the moment, I figured a concentration is alright - I also don’t have the time to compile a list, but here are some good ones.
✈ to beijing booked, should be interesting
roll over, play dead. →
I updated my theme; I can take no credit for it - but it looks a lot better this way. still trying to find the balance between this and the other site; I think tabs would be nice…
“I returned from Singapore in 1999, responsible for £862m worth of losses that...”
– Nick Leeson, the guy who brought down Barings, on the current crisis
Visa for china, done!
“The whole thing took him about four hours, he recalls, resulting in earnings of...”
– A flier strikes back at Delta - Sep. 5, 2008
Live Michigan football in Hong Kong tonight at the Keg in LKF
has anyone read: The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida?
“But the problem is, you can’t simply leave New York—you have to quit New York....”
– What Could Make Someone Want to Leave New York and Move to Buffalo? — New York Magazine
I disagree - I left but I’m not gone
http://www.thedailyshow.com/ find the video called “sarah palin gender card”
my MacBook case is cracking - again: cheap plastic…
“For $3 a month, each time a user snaps a photo, a box appears on the cellphone...”
– Phone Smart - Freeing Those Snapshots Trapped Inside the Cellphone - NYTimes.com
WHAT!!!???!!! $3/month for that?
The real problem with hong Kong is that even when it rains it doesn’t cool off & people who already can’t walk now have umbrellas
Another T-shirt “blood, sweat, code” just doesn’t make sense
Milky Way Campaign - Fubiz™ →