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Entries from January 2008

PC Vs. Mac Rap

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

You saw the Big Mac Rap. Now watch the PC vs. Mac rap.
I’m a right clicka.
I’m an I-Book flippa.
Macs ‘n PCs - no fight gets bigga!
Hell yeah!

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Tags: humor · technology

Angelina Jolie

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

A certain A. Lane from the New Yorker has brutally and frankly broken it down for all of us and showed us the six functions of Jolie, Inc.
Ms. Jolie is now more of a brand than a person, and she comes in six flavors:
1. The celebrity.
2. The sexpot.
3. The Brad handler.
4. The mother.
5. The world [...]

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Tags: film · humor

The Nigerian Email Conference

June 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

So this morning, I receive an email that starts off something like this:
*GOOD DAY,* ** *LET ME FIRST INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU.I AM MR. LUCAS GOMEZ, AN INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN FINANCIAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO THE LATE NIGERIAN FIRST LADY. CHIEF MRS STELLA OBASANJO, MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE. ON THAT HER LAST [...]

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Tags: humor · news · offbeat

John “The Saint” Coltrane

June 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Local readers and jazz-lovers should get a kick out of this one. On the corner of Fillmore and Eddy Streets, right here in San Francisco, is the Church of Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane. Yes, it’s the same John Coltrane who was married to Alice, sired Ravi and played with such jazz luminaries as Thelonious [...]

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What’s Simple, Leafy and now Carbon-Free?

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

My buddy Nikhil over at The Simple Leaf just let me know that his company is now carbon-free. What does that mean? Well, for one thing, they offset all of their carbon emissions. But go over to the ‘carbon-free’ page on their website to find out more. And to see how you can help.
Being that [...]

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Tags: friends · news

Black and White

June 10th, 2007 · No Comments

[Also on Desicritics - with a few interesting comments there]
I’m a big fan of Emmanuel Derman. Both he and I are in the same field (quantitative finance) and he’s a much accomplished and widely published academic and quant, who’s at the top of his field. He gives good reason to us young ‘uns to [...]

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Tags: opinion · philosophy

Who’s Your Deity?

June 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Folks, please refer to me from now on as Doctor The Great Ganesha. Yours truly has successfully defended his doctoral thesis and has just racked up his fourth degree.
Now the good doctor is looking to get on with that pesky task of relocating to the “real” world (although the suffering was real enough in academia)…
Anyone [...]

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Tags: personal life

Google Gets Some Street Cred: Part Deux

June 1st, 2007 · No Comments

So it seems that there’s been a flurry of activity after the Google ‘Street View’ feature has come out.
First off, we had a woman get frantic about the people circling her streets in vans while taking pictures of her cat. Sounds like 24? Well, think again. Here’s what she wrote to BoingBoing:
I’m all for mapping, [...]

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