alt.misc
- Asteroid Bookmarklet
Great for wasting time and ads …
- Release History of My iPhone Fart App
Version 1.5.1 (June 30, 2009) – FartTime feature added – translates all voices from chat/phone calls into random fart noises.
- As I Sat Writing – From the Autobiography of William Faulkner
My father is a sandwich.
- Queen’s English 50c
A translation service for English-speaking 50 Cent fans.
- Control-Self-Delete
Stephen Colbert on online privacy, Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt. Brilliant.
- The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art
- Inebriation
“I specialize in a very specific type of insobriety—unconscious insobriety.”
- Last Exorcism Chatroulette reactions
What an excellent day for an exorcism …
- Desperate Pandora Employees Scrambling To Find Song Area Man Likes
“Who makes a station with proto-punk and late-’90s jam bands?” said Davis, explaining how an effort to split the difference by playing the MC5 followed by the String Cheese Incident had failed disastrously. “There are what, maybe two songs ever recorded that fit those criteria? And he just keeps skipping them.”
- It’s Great to be Alive: A Safety Manual
“Don’t play in abandoned ice boxes – they are death traps!”
Older at alt.misc »
What makes a man want to amass more money than God, and once he has, keep going? For each hedge-fund manager the answers are a little bit different, and a little bit the same. From today's Bloomberg Markets we believe we have identified the four primary things that motivated Harbinger Capital founder Philip Falcone (or as readers of this blog may know him, Mr. Lisa Falcone), whose fund made $11 billion betting against subprime, to become who he is today.
We begin with a sepia-tinted moment when Falcone first leaves his Minnesota hometown, all gawky of limb and Lionel Richie of hair, to seek his fortune in the big city.
Neil Sheehy, from nearby International Falls, had offered Falcone a ride to Harvard University, which had recruited both of them to play hockey for the Crimson. The car stalled in front of Falcone’s house, and Sheehy had to restart it on a hill while Falcone’s mother and one of his sisters sobbed their goodbyes.
“It’ll be all right, Mrs. Falcone; it’ll be all right,” Sheehy recalls telling Caroline Falcone as the car chugged to life and headed east.
Falcone was one of nine, and his mother still cared that he was leaving home! This is meaningful and leads us to Motivation 1: Phil can never let his mama down.
[To wit, later: "Galloway says he once set up a meeting for Falcone with a billionaire investor who was interested in Harbinger. Falcone said he couldn’t make the meeting because he had to go see his mother."]
Immediately after leaving home, life decided to punk young Philip by showing him that even when you think that things are tough, they can always get worse.
Falcone rode to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his feet on the dashboard because Sheehy had packed a skate-sharpening machine on the floor of the front seat... Halfway there, the roof liner came loose and showered the young men with fiberglass insulation that stuck to them as they sweated in the late.
Motivation 2: The fuck he's going to go through something like that again. He is going to kick life's ass!
Then, he did not quite fit in at school.
Falcone was wide-eyed when he arrived at Harvard in 1980, says hockey teammate Greg Olson, who’s now a dentist in Minnetonka, Minnesota. “He was a deer in the headlights,” Olson says. After recovering from the initial shock, Falcone made himself something of a campus don. Hockey teammates called him “Fashion Phil” because he cared so much about his clothes, Olson says. He had a blue, three-piece suit that he wore often, and he always wore stylish shoes.
Motivation 3: Show those jerkoffs who called him a hick and a fag who the man is.
But after graduation, he was more confident.
[Wife Lisa] was working as a model when she met Phil Falcone through mutual friends at a Manhattan restaurant in the late 1980s.
Motivation 4: GIRLS!
Of course, a hot wife and incredible financial success doesn't keep the critics at bay. If anything, it just makes them worse.
“Just because a manager got the subprime trade right, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a skilled manager,” says Brad Balter, managing partner of Balter Capital Management LLC, a Boston-based firm that invests in hedge funds for clients. “There have been several funds that benefited from that bet in 2007 whose performance was mediocre before and continues to be mediocre today.”
Motivation 5: Show those jerkoffs who suggest he is a one-hit wonder who the man is. Then show them again. And again. Until he dies.
Falcone Losing Touch Borrowing From Funds While His Investors Denied Cash
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<b>News</b> Corp Gave $1 Million To Chamber Of Commerce Just This Summer <b>...</b>
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the US Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, ...
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Feds Sue Fox <b>News</b> Over Reporter Catherine Herridge's Charges Of <b>...</b>
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<b>News</b> Corp Gave $1 Million To Chamber Of Commerce Just This Summer <b>...</b>
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the US Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, ...
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alt.misc
- Asteroid Bookmarklet
Great for wasting time and ads …
- Release History of My iPhone Fart App
Version 1.5.1 (June 30, 2009) – FartTime feature added – translates all voices from chat/phone calls into random fart noises.
- As I Sat Writing – From the Autobiography of William Faulkner
My father is a sandwich.
- Queen’s English 50c
A translation service for English-speaking 50 Cent fans.
- Control-Self-Delete
Stephen Colbert on online privacy, Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt. Brilliant.
- The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art
- Inebriation
“I specialize in a very specific type of insobriety—unconscious insobriety.”
- Last Exorcism Chatroulette reactions
What an excellent day for an exorcism …
- Desperate Pandora Employees Scrambling To Find Song Area Man Likes
“Who makes a station with proto-punk and late-’90s jam bands?” said Davis, explaining how an effort to split the difference by playing the MC5 followed by the String Cheese Incident had failed disastrously. “There are what, maybe two songs ever recorded that fit those criteria? And he just keeps skipping them.”
- It’s Great to be Alive: A Safety Manual
“Don’t play in abandoned ice boxes – they are death traps!”
Older at alt.misc »
What makes a man want to amass more money than God, and once he has, keep going? For each hedge-fund manager the answers are a little bit different, and a little bit the same. From today's Bloomberg Markets we believe we have identified the four primary things that motivated Harbinger Capital founder Philip Falcone (or as readers of this blog may know him, Mr. Lisa Falcone), whose fund made $11 billion betting against subprime, to become who he is today.
We begin with a sepia-tinted moment when Falcone first leaves his Minnesota hometown, all gawky of limb and Lionel Richie of hair, to seek his fortune in the big city.
Neil Sheehy, from nearby International Falls, had offered Falcone a ride to Harvard University, which had recruited both of them to play hockey for the Crimson. The car stalled in front of Falcone’s house, and Sheehy had to restart it on a hill while Falcone’s mother and one of his sisters sobbed their goodbyes.
“It’ll be all right, Mrs. Falcone; it’ll be all right,” Sheehy recalls telling Caroline Falcone as the car chugged to life and headed east.
Falcone was one of nine, and his mother still cared that he was leaving home! This is meaningful and leads us to Motivation 1: Phil can never let his mama down.
[To wit, later: "Galloway says he once set up a meeting for Falcone with a billionaire investor who was interested in Harbinger. Falcone said he couldn’t make the meeting because he had to go see his mother."]
Immediately after leaving home, life decided to punk young Philip by showing him that even when you think that things are tough, they can always get worse.
Falcone rode to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his feet on the dashboard because Sheehy had packed a skate-sharpening machine on the floor of the front seat... Halfway there, the roof liner came loose and showered the young men with fiberglass insulation that stuck to them as they sweated in the late.
Motivation 2: The fuck he's going to go through something like that again. He is going to kick life's ass!
Then, he did not quite fit in at school.
Falcone was wide-eyed when he arrived at Harvard in 1980, says hockey teammate Greg Olson, who’s now a dentist in Minnetonka, Minnesota. “He was a deer in the headlights,” Olson says. After recovering from the initial shock, Falcone made himself something of a campus don. Hockey teammates called him “Fashion Phil” because he cared so much about his clothes, Olson says. He had a blue, three-piece suit that he wore often, and he always wore stylish shoes.
Motivation 3: Show those jerkoffs who called him a hick and a fag who the man is.
But after graduation, he was more confident.
[Wife Lisa] was working as a model when she met Phil Falcone through mutual friends at a Manhattan restaurant in the late 1980s.
Motivation 4: GIRLS!
Of course, a hot wife and incredible financial success doesn't keep the critics at bay. If anything, it just makes them worse.
“Just because a manager got the subprime trade right, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a skilled manager,” says Brad Balter, managing partner of Balter Capital Management LLC, a Boston-based firm that invests in hedge funds for clients. “There have been several funds that benefited from that bet in 2007 whose performance was mediocre before and continues to be mediocre today.”
Motivation 5: Show those jerkoffs who suggest he is a one-hit wonder who the man is. Then show them again. And again. Until he dies.
Falcone Losing Touch Borrowing From Funds While His Investors Denied Cash
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Feds Sue Fox <b>News</b> Over Reporter Catherine Herridge's Charges Of <b>...</b>
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are suing the Fox News Network for allegedly retaliating against a reporter after she complained about unequal pay and job conditions based on her gender and age. The Equal Employment Opportunity ...
<b>News</b> Corp Gave $1 Million To Chamber Of Commerce Just This Summer <b>...</b>
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the US Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, ...
Apple TV jailbreak <b>news</b>: USB restore mode discovered
Breaking news Feed � iFixit: Apple TV has 8GB of onboard flash storage � Office 2011 to ship October 26 � Apple Remote app v2 now available for iOS 4 � Confirmed: No FaceTime in UAE, reported working in SA unless phones are updated ...
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Feds Sue Fox <b>News</b> Over Reporter Catherine Herridge's Charges Of <b>...</b>
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are suing the Fox News Network for allegedly retaliating against a reporter after she complained about unequal pay and job conditions based on her gender and age. The Equal Employment Opportunity ...
<b>News</b> Corp Gave $1 Million To Chamber Of Commerce Just This Summer <b>...</b>
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the US Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, ...
Apple TV jailbreak <b>news</b>: USB restore mode discovered
Breaking news Feed � iFixit: Apple TV has 8GB of onboard flash storage � Office 2011 to ship October 26 � Apple Remote app v2 now available for iOS 4 � Confirmed: No FaceTime in UAE, reported working in SA unless phones are updated ...
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Feds Sue Fox <b>News</b> Over Reporter Catherine Herridge's Charges Of <b>...</b>
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are suing the Fox News Network for allegedly retaliating against a reporter after she complained about unequal pay and job conditions based on her gender and age. The Equal Employment Opportunity ...
<b>News</b> Corp Gave $1 Million To Chamber Of Commerce Just This Summer <b>...</b>
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the US Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, ...
Apple TV jailbreak <b>news</b>: USB restore mode discovered
Breaking news Feed � iFixit: Apple TV has 8GB of onboard flash storage � Office 2011 to ship October 26 � Apple Remote app v2 now available for iOS 4 � Confirmed: No FaceTime in UAE, reported working in SA unless phones are updated ...
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