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I’m a little late to this party, but I thought it worth quickly posting. Andrew Lahde goes where many of us dream of going with his open resignation letter. This made the inevitable splash in finance circles, and now the ripples risk washing away in the wake of the larger financial crisis news. (I first spotted this on DistrictGrind)
But rather than being simply a parting shot, this reads like the sickened plea of a man who has realized something a bit more fundamental: That the market sucks (or could be so much better). And along the way, a number of other related realizations, like: The government could have fixed it, and didn’t (to it’s great monetary benefit, he posits) – so, the government sucks (…well, at least its current implementation sucks, cause it used to work… or work BETTER). His recommendations follow, rather predictably, those realizations (George Soros? Hemp?).
So EGADS! The man starts a hedge fund that makes goo gobs of money, preying on the greed and surrounding commoditization of the subprime mortgage speculation, get’s disgusted by the whole affair, and drops OUT. And since he momentarily has the entire financial community’s ear, he chooses to follow Jerry’s advice to George, and “Go out on a high note”!
The result? The best resignation letter. Ever.
via Stormpulse.com
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS… AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES… WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE SWAMPED… SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE… WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES… INCLUDING THOSE OF BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.
- Hurricane Warning for Matagorda County, TX (via: Weather.com)
I’ve never heard such strong language from the The National Weather Service (or any national organization)! I hope the word gets out in time.
Good luck to everyone in the Galveston area!
Somewhere relatively deep beneath the Swiss/French Alps, massive forces are marshalling. In a ring, whose length measures the distance of the the Naples-Capri swim (first done in 1949: coincidentally the year NATO was formed, and the first Soviet atomic bomb is tested), secrets of the universe are due to be tested.
Today, amidst ceremony and hooplah, they throw the big switch, and the Large Hadron Collider goes “active”.
…sure, it’s just a simple power on. Sure the big stuff probably won’t happen for months. Heck, they probably won’t get it up to full power before the end of the year…
That’s ok. Scary enough for some. But don’t worry, just check this site to see if the world has ended (I’m told it’s infallible).
Wait. You hadn’t heard about all of this? Where have you BEEN? This IS the internet(s) you know.
Me? I’m happy to be watching the spectacle. I’m… I suppose you’d say, bemused. I’ll trot over to the Beeb (BBC Radio 4) and get my fill on trivia and edutainment. I’ll probably follow the Slashdottieness (did I just ake up another word?), and I’ll probably joke about it with my friends. Heck, if I’m really bored, I might check out the live webcast.
Mostly, I think I’ll forget (like I do ALL these big events), and watch somebodies YouTube of it. *sigh*
Huh! So hanging around at the Chinatown olympic celebration, in recognition of the start of the 2008 games in Beijing, and who vaults onto the stage?
Mayor Nutter.
And a bunch of past Philly Olympians Without much fanfare, and less explanation. Weird, but oddly appropriate.
Is it ironic that I had to Google for Cuil? Or is it merely an indication of my waning net attention span?
Is Cuil any different? Could it be better? The press is having a field day, split along the usual lines: traditional news outlets are pumping the “David Vs. Goliath” aspect, the tech writers? Cuil = Fail. It’s all a big bus, and everyone (self included) has climbed on with their two cents fare. And I have to say, the outlook is not really that great at first glance.
But honestly, I was an early adopter of Infoseek. And Lycos. And AltaVista, AskJeeves, Yahoo. Even Ask.com. (Maybe not so much with that Microsoft thingy: what’s it called again? I gotta go Google it…). And most of those ended up sucking (IMHO).
So I say, give a webservice a break. USE it for pity’s sake. Shake it down. Let it surprise and disappoint. Don’t simply listen to the “experts”. Don’t give it the two minute cursory glance. USE IT. Then either abandon or embrace.
Has our attention span gotten so short that we can no longer seriously…
…
Ummm. HELLO?
