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On Instantaneous precision
Among Chuang-Tzu's many skills, he was an expert draftsman.
The king asked him to draw a crab.
Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants.
Five years later the drawing was still not begun.
"I need another five years," said Chuang-tzu ( Read more... ) -
financial advice - think of bankruptcy as "debt insurance"
Was offering some financial advice to a friend who has some significant debt. So I did some reading up on it, and put it into "my own words". I compare bankruptcy to collecting on "debt insurance" which is built into loan structures, and point out that it involves making investigated claims. Kind of interesting, I wonder if there's a better ( Read more... ) -
Craig, come get some ham!
Finding a week of vacation time with a vicious need to procrastinate, I posted to Craigslist in the "strictly platonic" personals section:
If you email me, all your wildest dreams will come true - 30
I came to LA to be amongst artists and musicians, but most people seem to be poseurs who have "more important things to do" on weekends than get ( Read more... ) -
spam filtering strikes again
I met mexgeek and we bonded over our interest in cheap/free entertainment. He asked me to email him and keep him in the loop about invites if I were to go out. So I sent him a few e-mails about events, with hyperlinks to information describing them, not getting any response ( Read more... ) -
Celebrity Comparisons
In Hollywood, people like to do celebrity comparisons. Since I have been here, I've noticed it going on constantly...and when people first meet me they feel the need to tell me what celebrity they think I look like. The two I get most frequently are Chris Elliott (the comedian/writer who was in Groundhog Day) and Chris Martin (lead singer from ( Read more... ) -
Educating Markets
I wrote this in an email, as an attempt to further explain my recent statement that "It should never be more profitable to educate a market than to exploit it.:
It's just something I made up that I like saying. You ( Read more... )
