Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random. Show all posts

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Love this song!

Love the lyrics and melody. A little touchy-feely but touchy feely in a good way ;) . (This reminds me of a trader at work who lost money, and when asked replied , "Yeah I lost money, but I lost money in a good way.")

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Enron Redux

200,000 emails sent by Enron employees from 1999-2003. Quite interesting to browse. Never know what you might find ;).

Enron Explorer.

Le Smoking

..has gone up in smoke.

Friday, May 09, 2008

Guess who?

Was walking past a theater back entrance on State and Lake on my way home from work and a cop stopped me on the sidewalk to let someone pass. Guess who ? Dolly Parton!

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Joke of the day

What is the easiest way to launder money?

Throw a banker into a washing machine.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Gravity

News! News! News! Breaking News! It's just unbelieveable. When you finally come to accept that pigs could fly this comes along.

John Mayer.........discovers.....and whines about....* drum rolls *........Gravity!

Gravity *Whine*

Gravity is working against me
What?! It is?? How dare it!! How could it be so cruel?
And gravity wants to bring me down Bawwhhhh Bawwwhhh life is soooo unfaaairrrr

Oh I'll never know what makes this man Ah ok. So Mr. Gravity it is then. Not a Mrs or a Miss. Not in a pretty flowing floral skirt.
With all the love that his heart can stand Oh so love it is. I guess everything is straight now.
Dream of ways to throw it all away And kaput it was. How shocking that you would fall out with Mr Gravity ?!

Oh Gravity is working against me Bawhh!! Life is soooo unfairrr....Wahhh...Bawwhh..Sniff
And gravity wants to bring me down How hateful! That heartless beast!

Oh twice as much aint twice as good You want less of it? Sure! Lets shoot you out into space.
And can't sustain like one half could Translation still awaited from John-Mayer-gobbledegook-touch-feely-adsgkj-speak speacialist.
It's wanting more More?! Didn't you want less 2 sentences back?!
That's gonna send me to my knees Sadism is cool.
(repeat) (ouch ouch ouch)

Oh gravity, stay the hell away from me And you want it go away?!
Oh gravity has taken better men than me you see now how can that be? Make up your mind!! Maybe its you and not 'him' who has caused the relationship malfunction. All the moodswings you know.

Just keep me where the light is Now you want light?! Ah! So you want the gravity to lead you to light. Let there be light!
Just keep me where the light is Gravity + Light => General Relativity. The effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time!
Keep you me where the light is Relativistic string theory!
Just keep me where the light is Photons! Gravitons! Manifolds !
Ohh… where the light is! D-branes! Supergravity!

As is apparent, Mr. John Mayer is at the cutting edge of thought on some of the most intractable problems that have puzzled humanity for thousands of years. Not surprisingly Mr. Mayer is currently in the company of Madam Jessica "Chicken of the Sea" Simpson. Amazing how a nice voice and a melting look can get away with something so inane and ridiculous.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Random Comments

- I saw Science of Sleep. A sweet idiosyncratic movie. Has Gael Garcia Bernal of Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien fame. It is weirdly humorous and bittersweet. Its a French production, so there is quite a bit of people speaking French. As you might think, its more on the arty side, and not a mainstream blockbuster type release. The Illusionist rocks too. The story is totally tight and gripping. The Covenant is a piece of shit.

- Science of Sleep has made me want to go back to France. I want to listen to people speak French. My French is too horrible to speak in, but is decent enough to pick up stray words and decipher meaning. And, I sorta like listening to people speak French. I want to go back to Lyon. Cathedral Fouvier. Perrache. Saone. Frankfurt will also be fun. Europe looks so classy in the winter. Darkness descending, with lights here and lights there, snow falling over the cathedrals and narrow lanes, shapes moving in the shadows.....you feel like you are in a WWII movie.

- I am likely to find employment with an exotic derivatives group. Usually, when nobody knows wtfigo (what the fish is going on), complex math comes into the picture. There is a lot of complex math in this stuff. Most earth shaking financial catastrophies (Barings for e.g, when Nick Leeson vaporized a tonne) come from the folks engaging in random fun with derivatives. Derivatives are like stock, except that you can make ginormous bets putting up close to no cash => lots of people get baited doing stupid things. The average lifetime of a derivatives trader is 3 years, in the business that is, I wouldn't think he commits suicide.