Every once in a while (more often than really is appropriate, but not what you could call frequently), I look up from what I’m reading in the subway to discover that I’ve missed my stop. Sometimes I’ve even missed two stops.
Anyway, as I rolled into Times Square on the downtown 1 train Monday morning (I was supposed to get off at 50th …
Warren Buffett is quoted in this morning’s W$J saying that “I can spend money faster than Imelda Marcos when things are right.” The implication of the Heard on the Street column in which he appears is that after several overpriced years, things are getting to be “right,” athough Buffett himself never says this.
All in all it’s a weaker …
Curious Capitalist reader YMM alerts me to an interesting Lester Thurow column in the Sunday NYT and wonders what I think. I’m generally very dubious of Professor Thurow, given as how he spent the early 1990s arguing that the U.S. economy was doomed, only to jump on the U.S.-is-best bandwagon later in the decade.
But his point in the …
Sunday was my last day for a while of reading the San Francisco Chronicle on paper over breakfast (of course, if Jon Fine gets his way, it will be my last day ever of reading the Chron on paper). The lead editorial in particular caught my eye. Headlined “a war on state’s economy,” it begins:
Not satisfied with its full-scale attack on
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a) Register.
b) Walk in.
c) Start talking.
Ah, if only it were as easy. I’ve been to a few job fairs in recent months, both as a recruiter for my company and as a reporter. I admit I’ve been surprised and at times appalled at the lack of skill, decorum and brains among some of the job candidates.
I could more easily excuse the …
On Friday I arranged a tutorial at TIME on blogging for journalists by pioneer blogger Anil Dash. (Dash is also a top executive at Six Apart, the company behind TIME’s blog publishing platform, Movable Type.) Below are some of his tips–many useful for any blogger, whether you write for big media or not.
The session wasn’t without …
From this morning’s W$J, an account of what New York Fed President Tim Geithner did last week:
Particularly at times of stress, what the Fed says can be almost as powerful a weapon as what the Fed does. So Mr. Geithner, whose job makes him the traditional liaison to Wall Street, turned to a convenient forum, the Clearing House Payments
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After all that Southern California overkill, here are my photos of the Northern California sights. On Monday I’ll get back to freaking out about the mortgage market.
The kitchen at Chez Panisse:
The Exploratorium:
The Coliseum (final score A’s 8, White Sox 5):
My friend Gerry writes in an e-mail this morning:
Tonight’s Daily Show “reported” that Geo. Bush has taken 423 vacation days in his 6 1/2 years in office. That’s 9 weeks’ vacation a year. Sure, he has a stressful job, what with screwing up the world and imposing his supposed Christian morals on the rest of us normal folk, but that’s a
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That’s Blackie’s Beach, in Newport Beach. And this is some panda in San Diego:
This is where you get your chili dogs in Chatsworth, in the northwestern corner of the San Fernando Valley:
This week I’m sitting in for an editor who’s on holiday. August is when a lot of magazine journalists travel, and our staff right now is skeletal. You know they’re desperate when they ask the likes of me to manage a section. I am the dregs, people. The grill scrapings. The underside of the barrel.
Anyway, among the innumerable …
