Hollyer Than Thou

elliottmarshal: saybutlittleandsayitwell: YES. [Image: A...

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:59:04 -0400

saybutlittleandsayitwell:

YES.

[Image: A photograph of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) sitting in a fancy sports car. On the image is written “Get in losers, we’re going to do science”]

Silly, there are only two seats in an NSX.

Motherhood vs. Feminism - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:57:01 -0400

Motherhood vs. Feminism - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com:

Interesting (and sometimes seriously regressive) series of woman thinkers talking about work/life balance and the role of a woman as mother.

Crash Curb: SAT Subject Test in Blogging Practice

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:51:47 -0400

Crash Curb: SAT Subject Test in Blogging Practice:

strepsis:

Well versed in blogging? The Blogging Subject Test gives you the opportunity to highlight your strengths in reading and interpreting blog posts from a variety of historical periods (2009, 2010, 2011) and genres. Taking the test also gives you the opportunity to showcase your…

barackobama: azizisbored: President Obama gives me a shoutout,...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:12:15 -0500

barackobama:

azizisbored:

President Obama gives me a shoutout, calls me out on lack of Twitter followers.

I still can’t believe this happened.

We just followed you on Tumblr, if that helps at all.

My workplace!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:59:07 -0500

My workplace!

Basically done?

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:04:45 -0500

Sorry, I haven’t forgotten you, Tumblr world. I’ve been reading, just had no time to contribute.

I think I’m done with work for the semester (less the writing portfolio I need to shape up next week).

Happy birthday to me.

"If only I would have checked myself"

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:07:37 -0500

“If only I would have checked myself”

- guy who wrecked himself (via superpussy)

canisfamiliaris: “Talk to your kids about art school” — A...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:03:17 -0500

canisfamiliaris:

“Talk to your kids about art school” — A series of humorous PSA-inspired ads for the College for Creative Studies

(via)

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there —..."

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:42:59 -0400

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God Bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

- — Elizabeth Warren, candidate for US Senate, as quoted by The New Republic

slaughterhouse90210: “The real marriage of true minds is for...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:37:55 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching search-lights.”
— Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance

michaelmcgee: childiswealth: no idea what this amuses me...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:49:13 -0400

michaelmcgee:

childiswealth:

no idea what this amuses me so

I’ll take it.

canisfamiliaris: “Your tax cuts at work.” Finally someone...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:10:25 -0400

canisfamiliaris:

“Your tax cuts at work.”

Finally someone visualizes what “tax cut” means.

Photo

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:07:40 -0400

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Reppin. Check out the rest of my album on...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:05:25 -0400

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Reppin.

Check out the rest of my album on my G+.

Hi Tumblr, I have failed at keeping up here! While I read my feed every day, I do more and more of...

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:22:56 -0400

Hi Tumblr, I have failed at keeping up here! While I read my feed every day, I do more and more of my random-thought-spewing on G+. But I have to say that I don’t follow quite the same entertaining mix of anime/cartoon enthusiasts and extremely active politicos on G+. It’s just not as fun.

I am alive. Today I went to a meetup in a new neighborhood for me, and listened to a few business folk present before chatting with a few locals about living in Hong Kong. A surprisingly large percentage of people I talked to work in private equity. This city seems to be all finance, even in tech circles.

Then I got MacDonald’s as it is kind of late here and try finding protein-heavy “food” faster/cheaper than that on a Monday night. HK$27 (US$3.47) for a “big n tasty” or whatever — including fries and a drink? Yeah, not going to beat that.

I do miss home a lot though, not like my house per se but football and people from more than just two ethnicities and chocolate soy milk (the only kind of soy milk they don’t have here) and loaves of bread — here you can only buy 8 or so slices at a time.

But I’m getting on, as they (Brits) say, and I’m getting continually more used to it. I have reached my 3/8 point today. I.e., I’ll be leaving 5 weeks from today. My hope is that I will use my time successfully, and not wasted it. How often do you get paid to camp out in a foreign metropolis for a few months? Not often.

See the rest of my Hong Kong photos at my Picasa album!

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:40:25 -0400

See the rest of my Hong Kong photos at my Picasa album!

One Week on Planet Asia

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:37:34 -0400

Executive summary: I’m working in private equity in Hong Kong from July 1 to August 29. It’s cool here, I’m getting used to it, but I’m lonely.

Hong Kong, at least most of the parts I spend time in, is vertical: skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. I work on the top floor of a 78-story building, the 4th tallest in the city. It has a killer view, as you can imagine.

More than half of the Hong Kong region is actually protected, undeveloped rainforest spread over steep and picturesque mountains. The rest is impossibly packed with people, taxis, and dense buildings (mostly shopping malls—so many shopping malls).

The food is more tolerable than anticipated, and I’ve made it through two extensive dim sum meals without making a total fool of myself. I can use chopsticks OK, but that was practiced a lot before I got here.

Everyone speaks English who needs to, usually just enough to sell you something or give directions. I manage to get lost a lot, because in the great English tradition streets change name every three or four blocks. The subway here is space-age, cheap, and jammed slightly less than sardines. It’s humid and terribly hot, hence the rainforest and the shopping malls.

Reasons the experience isn’t completely positive: my job is a little boring, at least so far. It’s only been a week so I’m not exactly doomed to a tedious existence, and at least I have the other intern to entertain me. I’ve learned enough to know that any finance less interaction-based and more desk-chained than private equity is not what I want to do with my life.

Secondly, I have no friends here besides my fellow intern and his girlfriend! I was on the subway with these 4 American girls and I said hi and I was so stupid not to have gotten their phone numbers or emails. I feel so dumb… seeing them together rushing to a party reminded me how much I would like to have companions here.

So… do you have any friends in Hong Kong? Share them!

hannahisawful: This was on my lovely English teacher’s board...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:37:38 -0400

hannahisawful:

This was on my lovely English teacher’s board when I walked into class today

Everyone’s reading it! I don’t know how, though....

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:44:14 -0400

Everyone’s reading it! I don’t know how, though. Almost 300 pages in and I’ve barely made a dent.

Also, to people who are trying to "change the system"

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:30:25 -0400

Don’t whine about it on the internet with a poorly and unsoundly argued—but educated-sounding—rant, plug your own sort of ludicrous solution, and then hope people don’t see the lack of common sense behind your message.

If you want to change the way an industry works, the best way to do that is to establish your own industry, not make some petition with no target—who are you trying to convince anyway?

Don’t try to regulate through Congress because that’s not even giving the people who are doing it wrong the opportunity to fail when someone does it right. Regulation restricts people from doing the wrong thing, but it doesn’t teach them to do the right thing.

Common sense, people.