Miscellaneous Ramblings

I’d like to take a moment and thank you for dragging your (expletive) down here for this meeting. Please take your seats and shut the (expletive) up. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover today.

The CEO has also floated the idea of selling branded toilet paper with his own face on each sheet.

http://www.jokesandclips.com/2009/02/finally-mans-ringtone.html

The companies valued the deal at $7.4 billion including cash and debt. Oracle agreed to pay $9.50 a share for Sun, a 42% premium to Friday’s close.

She was mocked and laughed at when she walked out onto the stage… and then she started to sing.

1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big
to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks – and
hence the most fragile – become the biggest.

A man in Topeka, Kansas decided to write a book about churches around the country.
He started by flying to San Francisco and started working east from there.

"The model I have in mind for this already exists in the Irish-American town of Butte, Montana," he continues. "No, it’s not a bad bank. But it’s a big hole in the ground, full of toxic material. Which is essentially the same thing." The pit’s been compared to a lot of things over the years — a moonscape, a wasteland, an environmental Armageddon — but this may be its first placement alongside a toxic money pit.

Who is the customer in education? Is it the student? The faculty? Employers? Society? (Or is it even broader? One professor once told me, "My customer is truth.")