Doctors of humane letters
the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half
Thursday, October 16, 2008
When compiling/installing MySQLdb for Mac OS X Server Leopard 10.5.x one will receive a different error for gcc about not being able to find my_conf.h. Because MySQL 5.0 is pre-installed in the Server addition this error stumped me until I read an Apple Support Article that explains that the client header files (.h) are not [...]
in early September 2007, he learned that AIG’s financial-products unit had been asked for billions of dollars in collateral related to derivatives it had sold.”
Two ways to think about this. First way, go back to the bursting of the tech bubble. Remember margin calls? This works the same way, but more work than just getting [...]
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Everyone agrees that accounting should be transparent, but transparency and invisibility are not the same thing.
The august Financial Accounting Standards Board has announced the eagerly anticipated funeral arrangements for the Q, as we fondly knew it, in the Financial Accounting Standard No. 140 governing the derecognition of transfers of financial assets and, in consequence, the [...]
Con men have a term, ‘taking off the touch,’ for the point in the con when they take the mark’s money.”
“Isn’t filtering stupidity elitist? Yes. Yes, it is. That’s sort of the whole point.”
“Our cognitive elites are not lovable”
“Most people, most of the time, steadfastly refuse to pay attention.”