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From TMF: This Week’s 5 Dumbest Stock Moves. Item #4 is the relevant one. These paragraphs jumped out at me: Hurd’s new squeeze? Salaries. He will be taking a 20% cut in his base salary, slashing executive pay by 15% to 20%, and sticking with a more modest 5% cut for most of HP’s workforce. [...]
Nerd content high, but still pretty accessible to normal people, methinks… Give it a shot, and see what passes for humour in some of my circles. From the handbook of stupid Unix tricks: [achiang@ethanol ~]$ man date NAME date - print or set the system date and time DESCRIPTION Display the current time in the [...]
A mail I sent to United yesterday… Regarding your weekly E-Fare emails, they’re one of the few pieces of corporate spam that I enjoy reading because of the possibility they contain within. As I open the mail, my mind wonders, “Where might I travel this weekend? Peoria? Rapid City? Bismarck?” The E-Fares have opened my [...]
Those words have been uttered by many a frustrated high school student over such subjects as Greek mythology, geometry, astronomy, and just about everything from high school English. I am here to tell you that knowledge in such esoterica is useless insofar as getting a job. But as for getting chicks, it’s solid gold. All [...]
.!. .!. I’ve been cruising around on match.com recently, and a few general themes have stood out. These observations are extremely unscientific and probably very specific to the Front Range, so take ‘em with a grain of salt. The minimum height requirement for guys is 5’10″. Something like over 80% of the profiles I’ve viewed [...]
Fri, Apr 10, 2009 - Denver, CO (DEN) to Beijing, China (PEK) United 0910 Depart: DEN 8:40 AM Arrive: ORD 12:00 PM United 0851 Depart: ORD 12:41 PM Arrive: PEK 3:15 PM Fri, May 01, 2009 - Beijing, China (PEK) to Denver, CO (DEN) United 0888 Depart: PEK 12:00 PM Arrive: SFO 8:28 AM United [...]