The one’s Conan O’Brian wrote are really good. I just got Seasons 4 and 5. I haven’t really watched any new episodes in the last couple of years. I hope to watch one or two tonight: here are some potential candidates…
Homer goes to College (season 5)
Rosebud (season 5)
Burns Heir (season 5)
Bart gets Famous (season 5)
Homer Loves Flanders (season 5)
Mr Plow (love that jingle!) (season 4)
Krusty get’s Kancelled (season 4)
Season 5 definitely looks better…
Blundering to Glory – Napoleon and his campaigns, good book so far, just at a boring section…
Phil Gordon’s little Blue Book: Halfway through, great read so far!
Panzer Aces II – An easy read and I take this along for when there are idiot’s who blare the TV while I’m riding the bike in the condo gym. I don’t think they realize that watching TV lowers your metabolism to a rate LOWER THAN WHEN YOU ARE SLEEPING. Kinda counterproductive to when you are trying to raise your metabolism through exercise. Try explaining this to someone sometime and see how far you get…
How We Got Here: A history of technology and capital markets since the industrial revolution. Very insightful and a great read. Written by Andy Kessler, and electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs, then became an analyst in the semi-conductor sector, then became a hedge fund manager in the 90’s and is now retired. Lots of great ideas and perspectives. I have to give props to engineers, I’m a probability/finite math guy, but these are the vector math guys. Very impressed, when I have time I want to take some sort of introduction to electricity course to further wrap my head around this stuff. Going forward I think this kind of information is required reading in our world. (Great tie-in read with Fortune’s Formula)
Freakonomics – An easy read, half way through
Hedgehogging – An overview of the hedge fund industry
The Long Tail – Will start this shortly, about how the information revolution has allowed us to move away from mass production and marketing of goods for the masses and towards niches and segments
George Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes.
The class was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the discussion
on the word “tragedy”. So, the illustrious leader asked the class for an
example of a “tragedy”.One little boy stood up and offered: “If my best friend, who lives on a farm,
is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be
a tragedy.”
“No,” said Bush, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand: “If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” explained the president. “That’s what we would call great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally at the back of the room a small boy raised his hand…
In a quiet voice he said: “If ‘Air Force One’ carrying you and Mrs. Bush was struck by a “friendly fire” missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Bush. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?”
“Well,” said the boy, “It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss, and it probably wouldn’t be a fucking accident either”.
Sorry I laughed out loud when I saw this…
Looks like Sat Nov 18th and Fri Nov 24th. No Dec tournies as too many celebrations already going on…
Okay for the readers who haven’t been to my place or know me let me put it this way. I have easily over 1000 DVD’s. All kinds, you name it from classic 80’s cartoons, to musicals, to disney, to war, and of course Arnold. How many of these have I watched? Certainly less than 10%.
I’m very disciplined and determined when it comes to certain things (that’s how I like to refer to in anyways), so I had my mind set on setting up the perfect movie collection a few years back and voila! Anyway, I got the Lord of the Rings trilogy when the movies first came out a couple of years ago. I got so far as 1/2 way through the two towers sometime in 2004 or 2005? Anyway, I busted that out along with the Return of the Kings this weekend and wow, I was actually impressed!
The Return of the King was a pretty kick ass movie! Great action scenes, magnificent score and cinematography. It was all good. So without further ado, I present my latest top 10 list in some semblance of order…:
Honorable Mentions: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Movie I originally dislike but now think is ok
Gladiator
Movies that I should sue the film company to get back those lost hours of my life:
Miami Vice (the new remake) – totally random and really bad
Windtalker – Someone who took a crap on a roll of film would make a better film than this peice of turd
S.W.A.T. – I saw this movie the first time, when it was called Bad Boys
Winter my most dreaded time of year is approaching. As a kid I used to love winter, building snow forts and snowmen, and flanking the enemies for with a feint on the left hand side while the main assualt force rushes in on the right for mitten to mitten combat… I mean er, winter was fun.
Now I hate the hassle and the cold. But what I hate the most is the Dickensian feeling of despair as I get up when it’s dark and come home when it’s dark. The age of steam which ushered in the industrial revolution and the technological advances have followed may have dramatically increased our standard of living, but that still does not make me feel any less of a cog in the wheel of the machine.
That’s what TV is for: to prevent the cogs from thinking about their futile existence and focusing instead on their day to day lives, and all the while the sands of time are slipping away. I think if you ran a correlation between highly successful people and amount of time spent watching television one would find a statistically significant negative correlation.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program…
Hi,
I want to have two tournaments in November as December will be a write off. Please post which days are best and I will try and accomodate those days with the most requests…
Thx!
Just working on assignments and relaxing. Hope to have a quiet weekend except that I have class on Sunday. I am getting killed in my MBA hockey pool and in one of my hometown hockey pools, but am coasting in the other which is a good thing, as I don’t have much time this year for player analysis…
I have to work on an MBA assignment but I think I can actually get it done early so I’m trying to figure out what to do to relax. It’s wierd having free time. I think I’m going to watch some TV. Unfortunately Monday night RAW is not on, so I might just have to watch the Simpsons. Watching the episode Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk made me laugh on Saturday. I needed to laugh as I was pissed.
I’m trying to read a couple of books as well, Blundering to Glory on Napoleon’s campaigns, Panzer Aces II on Knight’s Cross Winners of the Panzer Arm, the Long Tail by Chris Anderson, and I might start the Zen of Poker next.
Anyway, I will leave you with this: What are the 3 best Simpson episodes of all time?
I think this is the best way to sum my life up at this point. Week in Kingston was exhausting but good. Had some really deep conversations with some really intelligent people. Class was good and we had a wicked presentation by Harley Davidson (which was hit by a lead balloon at the end). Managed to get in some floor hockey and some football and the banquet at Fort York was good, although it snowed at the end.
Coming into the home stretch now. It’s almost November which means quarterly reports and Year End reports and New Year previews at work. I have to write my licensing exams when I finish my MBA on Dec 15th. I had a very illuminating car ride back home from Kingston on how other teams are functioning. Went out Saturday night with some people from the different MBA teams in Canada. Went to Century Room and Tie Domi and Belinda Stronach were there. Then on the way home we ran into Jarome Iginla. My buddy Rishi then started talking to him about how he was just as fast in tennis as Jarome was in hockey. It was a priceless moment and good times were had by all.
I cancelled the Poker night as I was busy all week and didn’t have much response plus it was my last chance to hang out with my MBA peeps. In a related note half of my MBA tiam showed up for the night out. If partying was part of our curriculum my MBA tiam would kick ass!
Will aim for a poker night probably the 2nd week of November so mark that in your calenders!
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