9:53 a.m.
Here’s a good discussion of what’s happening in the market right now, along with the antics of Cramer and the Federal Reserve’s unfortunate moves to subsidize (if only temporarily) the poor business decisions of Wall Street fund managers and investment bankers: Cramer Pleads for a Fed Rescue
Some of the comments are priceless.
10:43 a.m.
It’s soaring past 100 degrees today and our window blinds have yet to arrive, so we’re suffering from an onslaught of bright, hot sunlight through the banks of floor to ceiling windows.
The air conditioning simply can’t keep up, and the condo is now filled with the sound of whirring fans as we attempt to move cool air from the rooms that have it to the rooms that most definitely don’t.
5:37 p.m.
I think we’ll see a lot more of this behavior as technology becomes increasingly attractive and personally useful: Man Surgically Alters Thumbs to Better Use iPhone
I can think of worse reasons to undergo elective surgery on the human body.
8:58 p.m.
My new motto: “I’d rather weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.” — Patrizia Reggiani
But then, Patrizia Reggiani was convicted of ordering the assassination of Maurizio Gucci, her former husband, so perhaps her utterances aren’t the best to follow.
9:56 p.m.
We were watching “America’s Got Talent” tonight (I know, I know — but we can’t help it! It’s so entertaining for all the wrong reasons!) and the Martial Arts group Sideswipe came on. We both laughed — not because they’re a Martial Arts group, but because the Matthew Mullins guy is so obviously hanging on to sanity by his very last shred of rope.
I mean, what’s with all the crying in front of the cameras? Is it an act, or is he really that emotionally raw on a daily basis? Scratch the surface and it’s tears and huffing and “I was picked on as a kid!”
The BF said Mullins reminds him of one of those crazy, intense characters that Scott Thompson would play in his Kids in the Hall days:
Separated at birth?
