“I’m gonna become a butterfly!”
keyholez
"the scandalous particularity of the world"
Jan 27
Jan 26
I’m officially super old.
Jan 24
salt in the wound, Wall Street Journal
From a piece on the shutdown of Ticonderoga Securities:
A call to [the CEO] Mr. McLoughlin, who was in meetings with employees and clients during the afternoon, wasn’t immediately returned. An employee who answered the phone, and sounded choked-up, declined to comment.
Jan 23
“ He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition, which was in its turn, too much, the consequence, or at least the exhalation, of archives. He thought of these—of his not being at all events futile, and of his absolute acceptance of the developments of the coming age to redress the balance of his being so differently considered. The moments when he most winced were those at which he found himself believing that, really, futility would have been forgiven him.
— Henry James, The Golden Bowl.
Jan 22
Someone I know has at times insisted on calling Facebook “Thefacebook” because of history. I now feel the same way about SeamlessWeb. It was a stupid name to begin with, but I’m never going to call it just “Seamless.” Fuck you.
non-great moments in judging human character, CEO-of-a-hedge-fund edition
- He told me that I should try to be more misanthropic and more contrarian. A first!
- He believes I am “happy” and “not dejected” and “energized.”
Jan 21
insights from Top Chef
CHARLIZE THERON HAS AN AMAZING PERSONALITY. WHO KNEW??
Jan 20
No time to use lowercase letters — the people need to know!
video-game idea
Mortal Wombat.
