February 2008
28 posts
“It’s not perfect by any means. I’ve found many flaws - things I...”
– Stanley Kramer on his movie “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”
“p.s. I love you fake John Mayer,…you make my dreams of telling off real John...”
– Matheson, a News Groper commenter
“Sadly, if you were to imagine the liberal-conservative spectrum as your FM radio...”
– Fake Christopher Walken
A real entrepreneur day
Well said siminoff, we all have those days (every day?): Yesterday was what I would consider a real “entrepreneur” day. The thing that I find the hardest about being an entrepreneur is the extreme highs and extreme lows that you can experience and how close together they can come. My day yesterday was a perfect example of that. I started the day on a high getting interviewed by Donny Deutsch. ...
“They’re going through paper like it grows on trees.”
– Scott Adam’s true quotes from induhviduals
“Jesus Christ, how am I related to these people?”
– Natalie Bancroft
“Samuel L. Jackson isn’t only a fine actor, but a gamer. He’s one of...”
– Kotaku
“You must promise me one thing: you work as hard as you can, and as long as you...”
– Chef Alain Ducasse quoted by Gordon Ramsay (the real one, not the fake one)
This story is about something called Radical... →
Salmon River Restaurant (2/5) on Yelp.com →
I went here for Valentines Day and was not impressed. The food was pretty good but nothing special, and definitely not good enough to make up for the service. There are lots of little things a nice…
The Brick Store Pub (5/5) on Yelp.com →
I haven’t been to Atlanta in three years, but just became nostalgic for the Brick Store. This place has character and amazing mustard. I’ve never met a meal or beer I didn’t like there, and it’s the…
“Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual because they signal something New...”
– Sam Roberts
“Affluent parents have become role models for luxury and licentiousness, and have...”
– Tacitus (75 AD) quoted by Mark Chandler
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300...”
– Michael Jordan
“Narrative fallacy is never so quick to emerge as after a reminder that markets...”
– Going Private
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“I didn’t worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had...”
– Steve Martin
“For anything important, experience probably has a strong negative correlation...”
– Scott Adams
Poll Finds Almost Half of New Jersey Adults Want... →
Just as I always suspected!
“I will confess to you now that anything I have ever accomplished as a writer, as...”
– David Simon
“To me it is amazing how some start-ups choose who they hire – many seem to hire...”
– Auren Hoffman
My role in an economist fight →
Like a lot of things in life, we laugh because...
alexbalk: The whole post is decent enough, if a bit obvious, but the punchline is a thing of beauty. I doubt I’ve ever come up with anything as good. But don’t let me oversell it, see for yourself.
“History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
My live interview about News Groper on XM...