Month: March 2008

In the wake of the news that JPMorgan may punt nearly HALF of Bear Sterns’ 14,000 employees comes this visual – the evaporation of 93% of corporate value in 5 days…

Sobe’s marketing campaign for LifeWater had them set up a stage and reenact the Thriller dance. And I have to say, they were actually pretty good.

I saw a banner ad just today prompting me to “Get Toni Basil’s ‘Mickey’ on your phone”. I don’t know if she’s single, but she is, in fact, 64. Just about the entire universe knows her cheerleading one-hit wonder Mickey. I’m just somewhat flabbergasted at this song’s staying power. This song first hit #1 on… Continue reading Toni Basil is … 64 and single

My favorite quote in regards to the final price for JPMorganChase’s purchase of Bear Sterns from the WSJ Online: “I’ve got to think we can get more in a liquidation, I’m not selling my shares, this price is dramatically less than the book value Alan Schwartz told us the company is worth,” said a midlevel… Continue reading Bear Sterns.. sold for $2 a share…

Social networks bring up a lot about you… your job history, relationship history…. but recently for me, it’s been about my ELEMENTARY school history! First comes the fact that I found a really old friend on Facebook (like, the last time I talked to her was 15 years ago), and she’s doing really well… then… Continue reading 2nd grade… last one on the right, second row…

Photo Source: Walgreen’s Historical Archive via New York Times. The site of the new Walgreen’s at One Times Square (the top of which is where the ball drops from) between 42nd and 43rd streets was actually the site of a Walgreen’s for 40 years from 1930 to 1970.

If this kid, Clayton Kershaw – who is just 19 years old, doesn’t blow out his arm, Major Leaguers are in some big trouble. This thing is wicked.

I use a Mac in every aspect of my computing life (work included for the first time), and the repetitive crashing of Firefox has just become way too frustrating.   So, now I’m installing Flock 1.1 and hoping it’s not as cranky.   I used Flock 1.0 for a while, and really liked it, and with 1.1… Continue reading Flock + Tagsmith.org

I finally got around to updating my resumé page here…. Take a look if you like – it should have all of my work-y goodness. Plus, I wanted a post that didn’t involve solely my Twitterfeed for the day. I also fixed the display of posts on the front page…. thank goodness for WordPress making… Continue reading Hectic few weeks…