I'm studying for my Corporate Finance class. Every so often I have to remind myself that I am studying not the world as it is, but an internally consistent subset, a continent or a country …
My laptop got dropped and now I'm getting the "invalid key length" hard drive error. Surprise! My finance class has more work than I'd expected. Surprise! I got into Columbia, a bunch of my friends …
I'm told that Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, has said he'll resign next year but won't give a specific date. Evidently he's fond of the surprise execution paradox. Hmmm, if he's going to resign …
Jon Carroll makes coffee and spins an awesome column out of it. I went back to Northern California for a week, for the first time in eight months, and drank booze with my editor and …
A few Salon articles I've enjoyed: Andrew Leonard on learning to be a father and Cary Tennis explaining why people drink and take drugs. Once upon a time, Salon was a weekly literary magazine. Then …
A story about fast food reminds me how lucky I am that I've never worked that kind of retail. A few friends of mine who have really impressive resumes up online: web designer Kristofer Straub, …
A corporation has bought Cody's Books. I hope it improves more than it worsens. Ideas for t-shirts I would wear:I Have A Work Ethic Woohoo, I'm Married! Someday I Will Be Successful Courtesy Is Awesome …
Homework for the second Technology in the Business Environment class (this coming Tuesday): read five book chapters, and write a two-page analysis of different valuation structures at my workplace. Homework for the second Corporate Finance …
Tonight I start a four-semester Master's program at Columbia: the Executive Master of Science in Technology Management, offered by the School of Continuing Education. Finance, psych, marketing, planning, history, law, that sort of stuff. My …
