Saturday, February 26, 2005
Happy Birthday, Deena!
Here's my baby sister on one of her happy birthdays, back in 1966...
Cartoons!
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Friday, February 25, 2005
Dr. Projecto Rides Again...
Did some intense financial projections yesterday. This involved identifying key variables of a sugar company, calculating what drives each one and how they might change, and expressing this as a dynamic, multi-worksheet Excel file that shows what happens to this company, if, say, the price of sugar rises or falls..
In my younger days they called me "Dr. Projecto." My motto, from an old finance professor: "Never confuse precision with accuracy..."
Today marks 14 years since my Dad (pictured left with 2-year-old me)passed on.. In 1991, on a snowy day, as US forces captured Kuwait City....Tomorrow's my sister's birthday - there's a long history of calamities befalling her on or around Feb 26, of which Dad's passing was the low point...
Great quote Peter saw in a bookstore window: "Don't judge a book by its movie."
Cartoons, Personal & Political:
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Wry, Wistful, and Sung In Brogue
Meet my favorite book of the past two years, Julia Glass' smart, wry, honest, Booker-Prize-winning "Three Junes," which hops around in time, perspective, and location, etching out the complex relationships of a Scottish family whose gay, bookish son is exiled to Greenwich Village in the AIDS-stricken 1980s. Gourmet funerals, a sardonic dying opera critic, the last heir of a local newspaper, a pony-tailed avant garde photographer, veterinarians, artificial insemination, literary disillusionment, Lockerbie, all of these are but background details as the story focuses squarely on the thoughts, hopes, dreams, and failures of its central characters. Special bonus: the audio-CD is read by a charming young actor with a delicious Scottish brogue. I look forward to/am fearful of the movie version.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Glug Glug!
Earnings Season! 3 simultaneous conference calls as I write this (so why am I writing this? :-) ). Major downsizing here yesterday. I sit in a sea of empty cubicles... Hung w Thomas last night - can't believe he's leaving in 6 days to see the world...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Dude, Where's My Weekend?
I don't know where the time went, and didn't do much... I saw "The Gates" again in the frigid clarity that was Sunday morning, this time from the northern, 'emerging' end of Central Park, at 110th St and Malcolm X Boulevard. You know you're in deep blue state territory when a major artery can be named for Malcolm X... I had a nice Thai dinner with friends Sunday evening. I finished the movie "Reality Bites" on Netflix Saturday, which I will review this week. I watched about 14 episodes of "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" - about 3 1/2 minutes per episode, but I had to press the 'menu' button a lot. It's interesting watching 'Rocky' as an adult - I get the double entendres now, but take the action less seriously. I didn't see any Oscar candidate movies. I hung out with Bart Saturday afternoon and listened to the likes of Liza Minelli and Judy Garland on Rhapsody (with my computer's sound card gloriously restored). Congrats, Bart (you know what for, though you rarely read my blog, so this is kind of tree-falling-in-the-woods-y). this entry's permalink
Monday, February 21, 2005
Sunday, February 20, 2005
