Readers write in: A.B., Rochester: Do you have groupies?No, but that could change. I will send you a link to the application. M.B., Zurich: The funny thing is that in the German part of Switzerland, the word “Talon” is used very often, in particular to describe that part of a document that you can “cut” …
In the early eighties, the U.S. government didn’t know what to do about bearer bonds. The government hated them because they are a tool for tax evasion. American corporations that donated to political campaigns, by contrast, liked them because they are a good way of raising capital. So in 1982, Congress split the difference by …
There are two reasons I regret not having served in the military. The first is that military service gives people license to bend the English language. Why say ‘A’, ‘F’ or ‘R’, if you can say alpha, foxtrot or Romeo? The -FU acronyms, like SNAFU, FUBAR and TARFU, are like rhyming slang with free beer …
Content Warning: The following post contains a disquisition about option pricing. Readers who are sensitive to this type of content, or who seek salacious details about park residents, decaying infrastructure, baseball bats and large men chasing other men wearing diapers should turn to other posts on this blog. In the climactic scene of the movie …
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An Ordinary Day for a Manager of a Manufactured Housing Community Everyone should at least flip through Edward Tufte’s books once. The first book that Tufte published is called The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The second is called Envisioning Information and the third is Visual Explanations. They never get boring, but they all come …
TABLE I According to Websters, a blog post is an entry or article that is written on a blog. It can include content in the form of text, photos, infographics, videos, or deep-fakes. Chez Dirt Lease, a post is an insightful one-to-two thousand word essay that views consciousness, history, sex and the rest of the …
Like Elon Musk, Frank Rolfe skates close to madness. He is brilliant at what he does. He has popularized the industry and catalyzed many of the changes that happened over the past decade and a half. Many of us owe our business success to him. I chatted with him once in an elevator and enjoyed …
Two years ago, Mike, the manager at my park in northern New York, called me and said, ‘I just saw something I hope I never see again!’ -What’s that? -Josh Ferrante butt-naked. -I wish I could un-hear that. Josh is a guy who lives in that park. He had twins with a local woman shortly …
Chat GPT – write a paragraph about Goldman Sachs as a squid: Goldman Sachs is a well-known investment bank and financial services company, often referred to as “The Squid” due to its logo resembling a squid. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has grown to become one of the most influential and profitable financial institutions in …
When my eighth-grade biology teacher asked our class if any of us remembered the word for white blood cells, a guy named Jonathan Harvey raised his hand and shouted, ‘Homocyte!’ The word he was half-remembering was phagocyte, which is a type of white blood cell. If you trace the Greek root of that term, it …