Working stock research sales. Trying to become the next billionaire hedge fund manager. Ex-IFC Pres of a Pac 12 school. Enjoys beaches, golf, sunshine, happy hours, and his wife.
When the touch-tone telephone was being designed in the late 1950s, the calculator and adding-machine designers had already established a layout that had 7, 8 and 9 across the top row. Data-entry professionals, and others who used calculators fairly regularly, were quite adept at navigating these keypads. They could hit the numbers extremely quickly, which was great for data entry, but not so great for dialing a touch-tone phone. The tone-recognition technology could not operate effectively at the speeds at which these specialists could dial the numbers. The telephone designers figured that if they reversed the layout, the dialing speeds would decrease and the tone-recognition would be able to do its job more reliably.
10% in RICK (Rick’s Cabaret International Inc)
15% in BEAM (Beam Inc.)
30% in PLA (Playboy Enterprises)
20% in UMEMX (Columbia Emerging Markets)
10% in YUM (Yum! Brands aka Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC)
5% in PNK (Pinnacle Entertainment aka Casinos, Racetracks, Clubs ect.)
10% in HJOE (Hangover Joe’s Holding Corp, I shit you not)
Actually a pretty diverse portfolio, minus actual companies and any sort of bonds.
I’m with Shadow on this one. The majority of our generation (at it’s current state) sucks. Some kick ass. I doubt any of us could live like they did in the 40s. It’s not our fault, because we weren’t the ones who raised us and dropped us into this mess, but it is our job to fix it. I don’t see anybody from our generation stepping up as of now.
Out of every somewhat depressing column on this site, this was by far the hardest to read. I woke up happy it’s friday, now I want to watch the world burn.
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please have him call the biggest account first
This is pure gold. “Party at the office. I guess I will have one drink.”
When the touch-tone telephone was being designed in the late 1950s, the calculator and adding-machine designers had already established a layout that had 7, 8 and 9 across the top row. Data-entry professionals, and others who used calculators fairly regularly, were quite adept at navigating these keypads. They could hit the numbers extremely quickly, which was great for data entry, but not so great for dialing a touch-tone phone. The tone-recognition technology could not operate effectively at the speeds at which these specialists could dial the numbers. The telephone designers figured that if they reversed the layout, the dialing speeds would decrease and the tone-recognition would be able to do its job more reliably.
Just to help you out on some stock tickers:
10% in RICK (Rick’s Cabaret International Inc)
15% in BEAM (Beam Inc.)
30% in PLA (Playboy Enterprises)
20% in UMEMX (Columbia Emerging Markets)
10% in YUM (Yum! Brands aka Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC)
5% in PNK (Pinnacle Entertainment aka Casinos, Racetracks, Clubs ect.)
10% in HJOE (Hangover Joe’s Holding Corp, I shit you not)
Actually a pretty diverse portfolio, minus actual companies and any sort of bonds.
No duh genius, I don’t think any white males would want to either. The point was that we are softer than previous generations.
But then again, when’s the last time you read an article in Forbes about how shitty the Chinese millennials are? eh? eh?
Maybe the Chinese. They could probably fix it…….
I’m with Shadow on this one. The majority of our generation (at it’s current state) sucks. Some kick ass. I doubt any of us could live like they did in the 40s. It’s not our fault, because we weren’t the ones who raised us and dropped us into this mess, but it is our job to fix it. I don’t see anybody from our generation stepping up as of now.
Great column.
“Work Hard, Play Hard” more like work mediocre, sleep through happy hour
May the odds be ever in your favor……towards the addiction thing. Heard those rehab places are awesome.
Best Monday yet!
Out of every somewhat depressing column on this site, this was by far the hardest to read. I woke up happy it’s friday, now I want to watch the world burn.
On a serious note, fuck those verizon wireless service reps.
I couldn’t finish it. I was laughing too hard at the end of KFC = glory hole hand job analogy.
This is hippy shit
GILF = Gold
Fuck Paul, that guy is worse than cancer
Actually it was Switzerland, through the alps.
you are the inspiration sir