No. Or at least, not yet.
I’m talking about the iPad, of course. Absolutely I want one–that’s the genius of marketing and the Apple brand. But in the cold, harsh light of day and my checkbook balance, the answer is, no, I’m not going to buy one, not now at least.
The reason is that it doesn’t [...]
Nice obit in the WSJ on Alfred Shaheen, godfather of the Hawaiian Aloha Shirt.
When we moved to Hawaii from the mainland in 1968, the business community was just transitioning from business attire to Aloha attire, i.e., from suits to Aloha shirts. It’s been Aloha attire ever since.
(An aside. When I was an intern with Peat, [...]
I kid you not. A couple of nights ago I was catching up on old episodes of The West Wing, and we had the following exchange from Season 2, “The Lame Duck Congress” (which aired November 2000)
LEO
What do you have?
SAM
The commerce department wants us to back an amendment to a Bill that would help
small businesses [...]
An article in today’s NYT, The Return of the Interview Suit, lays it all out. Takeaway quote.
With the unemployment rate in America at a 14-year high and more than half a million jobs lost in the last three months alone, there has been a detectable shift in the way people are dressing for work. In [...]
Some people just have way too much time on their hands. Here’s a YouTube video of someone playing the piano on two phones and a calculator. We live in a great time, don’t we?
A favorite daydream of mine that sometimes is discussed among the guys. (Best response: ” I’d start an endowment that would throw off enough cash each year to fund the golf trip.”)
Some other thoughts on becoming an instant millionaire. The take away.
The lottery fantasy starts off being about running away from the obligations and necessities [...]