Sunday, October 31, 2010

Rodin's The Hamburglar

Friday, October 29, 2010

Poor Spidey

Found in my neighborhood

Outsourced

Prediction: by the end of the first season, a song by Dr. Bombay will appear on NBC's show Outsourced. It will probably involve a chase scene through a very busy street

I DIDNT KILL MY WIFE! (Vinh's White Father Edition)

Party animal and recent divorcee, Goldman Sachs' Richard Kimball Jr., unsurprisingly did not have the lease renewed on his 4,500-square-foot West Village penthouse after he spent too many nights bothering neighbors with his wild parties.

Now the rowdy womanizer must watch as a new, supercool tenant moves into his old condo in January, while he relocates to another, unknown, location, and solidifies his reputation as the world's worst neighbor.
The new tenant at 99 Jane Street is Knicks star, Amar'e Stoudemire, the New York Post reports.

Like Button

lexswitzerland.blogspot.com.... now with Like button! and yes, it did take me over 45 minutes to figure it out

Puns

I think they may have just recycled this one from the 2008 election

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Whale Sharks

They have funny mouths

Porchetta

porchétta [por'ketta] n. roasted pork with crispy skin, highly seasoned with aromatic herbs and spices, garlic, sage, rosemary and wild fennel pollen. Typical plate of the Roman cuisine. Slow cooked Italian fast food.


OU Sucks

Death Row Inmate's Last Words: "Boomer Sooner"

Death Row Inmate's Last Words: "Boomer Sooner" 

Jeffrey Landrigan was put to death last night, but not before saluting his favorite football team. He's not an OU grad though; like most Sooners fans, he never went to college. Hope his pen pals aren't still waiting for replies. [Arizona Republic]

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Hey Britt Mitchell

HELP HIM UP

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]


There's Always Next Year....

QB: Garrett Gilbert
RB: Malcolm Brown or Fozzy Whittaker
WR: Mike Davis
WR: Darius White
WR: Marquise Goodwin
TE: Barrett Matthews
LT: Paden Kelley
LG: Tray Allen
C: David Snow
RG: Mason Walters
RT: Trey Hopkins

DE: Jackson Jeffcoat
DT: Kheeston Randall
DT: Alex Okafor
DE: Reggie Wilson
MLB: Jordan Hicks or Emmanuel Acho
SLB: Hicks or Acho
WLB: Keenan Robinson
CB: Carrington Byndom
S: Blake Gideon
S: Christian Scott
CB: Adrian Phillips
Nickel: Kenny Vaccaro

Tea Party Movement

Friday, October 22, 2010

Austin is the new Brooklyn?

OU Still Sucks

Now they tell us. Texas fans will be thrilled to learn that the Big 12 has overturned the controversial tiebreaker rule that lifted rival Oklahoma into the conference championship game – and therefore into the BCS Championship Game – over the Longhorns and Texas Tech in the Great Three-Way Tie of 2008. The new procedures would have pulled Texas from the quagmire instead. Did I say "thrilled"? I meant kind of disgusted. [Dallas Morning News]

Hustle Town, USA

"Texas has 8,000 gun dealers, and in the city of Houston there are 1,500. The pattern we’re seeing is that they’ll go to the shows to buy ammo and supplies, combat gear, and so on, and go to the dealers to get their weapons, using straw buyers for $50 per gun, on up. They come, and they just keep coming back. It’s simple because we make it simple. There’s no black market in the U.S. The guns are not being stolen—it’s all legal.”
Dewey Webb, special agent in charge, Houston division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Hipster Douche Bags

Nice article on being a hipster. What the article describes as the "poseur" is what I call the "hipster douche bag".
See prevoius blog post for more details... (http://lexswitzerland.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html)

" It isn’t really self-loathing at all. People don’t hate hipsters, and hipsters don’t hate themselves. What people hate so much is the faux-hipsters: they hate poseurs. And because it’s such an irritating thing to be having to tell the real from the fake (exactly as in the matter of overpriced European handbags), the easiest way out is simply to deny any involvement in the whole business. That is why nobody, not even someone who fervently embraces hipster culture, wants to call himself a hipster.

But there are good reasons to validate the legitimate aspect of hipster culture, the aspect that is fun and has real charm and elegance to it; that tries, the way every social group tries, to form bonds between the like-minded using all these signals like haircuts and cardigans and bicycles and magazines.

It’s easy to tell the difference between a hipster and a poseur, because while the former are mainly enjoying, the latter are mainly judging. The poseur is an aesthetic snob without aesthetic discernment; he sneers but has no understanding of standards. So instead of having fun sharing their arcane things together, the poseurs are having zero fun pretending to not like anything. As Nietzsche put it most memorably: The man who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as one who despises. These two kinds of people really are just worlds apart, even though they may find themselves living in the same neighborhood and going to the same rock show." From The AWL

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Where are The Harry Potters?

For Andrea

don't be evil

From Bloomberg

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.

Google’s income shifting -- involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” -- helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

bun b

Earlier today Bun tweeted, "Co-teaching Hip Hop and Religious Studies at Rice University this spring! Undergrads enroll!" along with a photo (seen in miniature to your left) of his university I.D. Bernard Freeman! Distinguished Lecturer! Rice University: now officially the trillest school in the US News & World Report's top 50. [HipHopWired]

i like lamp

http://www.mind-lamp.com/inside-mind-lamp.php

apparently this lamp can turn into the color that you are thinking about!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Honestly.com

Apparently you can now review people on Honestly.com

It's Yelp for Human Beings! Awesome

Standing

So those of you who know me well, know that I have started to stand while I surf the web. Lately, I noticed that I was starting to hunch over b/c I was having trouble reading my computer screen which actually defeats the purpose of standing (helping your back/posture/health).

So here is my solution.

There is no telling what can happen from this (besides a broken laptop).

The Room

I really love this movie

Monday, October 18, 2010

Adios Corn Aggies

From CNBC

Joe Moglia has one of the greatest stories to tell.

He went from football coach to CEO of TD Ameritrade [AMTD 16.64 0.20 (+1.22%) ] and now he’s back in the football game, as executive advisor to Nebraska’s head football coach Bo Pelini. As the team gets set to take on Texas this weekend, we sat down with Moglia to talk about his job and his future in football.

Myth Busters

"Apparently not quite busy enough dealing with midterm elections and finishing up Freedom, President Obama will appear on the December 8 episode of the Discovery Channel’s science show Mythbusters"

For MGMT fans

Words With Friends - The Death Blows



Thursday, October 14, 2010

Vince Young Steakhouse

"Vince Young Steakhouse is coming to Austin in November, and we are hiring!

We are looking for all positions in the restaurant, from front and back of the house!

If you are anyone you know is interested in working at the best steakhouse in town that will be locally owned and operated please contact Phil at phil@vinceyoungsteakhouse.com and we will set up a time to interview!"

China vs Brazil

Skip to 1 minute mark for the action!

I HATE THIS SCREEN

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

BET Awards

Miner Rescue!

Go Chile, the Texas of the South!

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/latest-updates-on-the-rescue-of-the-chilean-miners/?hp

For Neruda

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/see_bruce_willis_on_between_tw.html

Gay Myth

From Marginal Revolution

"OKTrends has another great post, gay sex v. straight sex, analyzing data on millions of customers who use the dating site OKCupid.  Here is one piece of the long post that I found surprising."

Another common myth about gay people is that they sleep around, but the statistical reality is that gay people as a group aren't any more slutty than straights.
Median Reported Sex Partners
  • straight men: 6
  • gay men: 6
  • straight women: 6
  • gay women: 6

Monday, October 11, 2010

Welcome Mat

After Hail Storm

Before Hail Storm

Totally Missed This

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Big in Japan

Job Creation

Friday, October 8, 2010

Gates

A gating war has broken out inside Paige Capital, a hedge fund run by two sisters who appear to only manage the money of one outside investor.

The sisters are aggressively gating his money, sending him an.. intimidating(?) letter that says:

“[W]e are fully prepared to litigate this matter to the bitter end because we will continue to manage your money, and collect management and incentive fees, until this matter is resolved many years hence." Christopher Paige, Paige Capital’s general counsel, defiantly wrote in a March letter, court filings show. “You cannot win because you will spend more litigating than we’re fighting over … we decide the best way to protect the funds, and your opinion is irrelevant.”

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Wire

Congrats David Simon!

David Simon has been awarded one of the MacArthur Foundation's $500,000 “genius grants,” along with 22 others, including an astrophysicist, a stone carver, jellyfish and bee experts, and the fiction writer Yiyun Li, one of The New Yorker’s "20 Under 40." The Wire creator received the award in his typical fashion, which is to say with some self-deprecation, appreciation, and a hint of curmudgeonliness: ”Obviously, I’m very grateful but I have a vague sense of not belonging,” he told the Times. He elaborated to The Wall Street Journal: "To be blunt, I'm in the entertainment industry … and my contracts are well-funded right now." [WSJ]

London Hedge Fund Tax

A whopping one in four hedge funds have left London because of the 50% bonus tax, or coincidentally since the tax was instituted.

Brevan Howard, Moore Capital, and Michael Platt's BlueCrest are the biggest fund names to leave for more profittable pastures in Switzerland, but clearly they are three of many. And losing them is costing the city tons of money and pride - their tax is totally backfiring. At some point they're going to break even, if they haven't already.

We predicted the loss in taxes for London was up to £400 million in July, based on the city losing taxes on hedge fund employees' incomes alone.
Now the Financial Times is estimating the city is losing up to £500 million annually. Oof.

K-State

Apparently they have 2 offensive coordinators. Texas, DO IT!!

Tech Conference

How is Chamillionaire not the spokesperson for GEICO yet?

On another note:

"The biggest tech thing rappers know is Napster ... That's why I'm so adamant about letting people know why I'm [at tech conferences]. There's a whole audience of people that are influencers that people aren't seeing here." —Rapper Chamillionaire at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, criticizing the dearth of rappers at these types of events. Chamillionaire, who pointed out that most rap fans use torrents instead of iTunes, urged his compatriots to keep up with where the market is heading, adding "If my ship is about to sink, I need my lifeline ahead of time. The artists, they don't know." [Business Insider]

Play to Win Championships

Usually in football, it's all about winning championships. No one really cares about 2nd place. I would say that the Buffalo Bills are the exception to this, as everyone remembers and appreciates their 4 in a row 2nd place finishes. I would say that I remember that even more than some Super Bowl winners (Tampa, Baltimore, Green Bay)

On another note, check out Jared Allen's cookbook. Awesome!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Oh Snap, Cobble Hill

Monday, October 4, 2010

Kanye

An amazing performance on SNL

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Taxes

From Business Insider

i love college football