-
“Like Mr. Lhota, Mr. Frangoulis said he had had to cut back. “I’m 52,” he explained. “I love my teeth.”
– With Fellow Cigar Enthusiasts, Lhota Raises Money in Smoky Haze - NYTimes.com
-
“We started with base pay. I wrote down the least I would work for and asked them to write down the most they would offer a perfect person, irrespective of whether I was that person or not. If when we exchanged papers, their number wasn’t higher than mine then we could stop there and save time. Their number was twice the best base pay I had ever received in past jobs, and my request was for $0. I explained that my goal is to live a debt-free life, and therefore I wanted to give value before receiving compensation.”
–
Somewhere, an editor at Huffington Post gets an idea…
The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all – Quartz
-
(Source: kevc)
Today in excellent contextual advertising.
Pre surgery dreams.
(Source: ixwantxbexskinny, via kevc)
(Source: kevc)
(Source: kevc)
“Boring people are busy, the great ones are just having fun.”
– HIGHLIGHTED LIFE: Be better than “busy” (via msg)
(via msg)
“It is, in fact, content,” Mr. Perlis said.”
– Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads - NYTimes.com
(Source: Spotify)
“Yes, Elephant was recorded on ’60s (hell, maybe 1860s!) tube amps personally stolen by the Whites from Les Paul’s garage, in some cases supplanted by tubes from Les Paul’s own digestive system, the whole rig loaded into an archaically pristine tarpaper-shack studio (maybe instead comprised entirely of Lincoln Logs, as in logs personally split by former president Abraham Lincoln) after being pulled across the mighty pre-Louisiana Purchase Mississippi River by the very first Ford Model T, or maybe a team of Clydesdales, the whole shebang’s only power source the key from Ben Franklin’s kite or fuckin’ whatever retro-fetishization campfire story they needed to tell you or you needed to hear.”
“Books, of course, will be replaced by video games in the coming decade. To read a book you’ll probably have to spelunk into a wet, slimy hole on the outskirts of town and unearth a volume from underneath a layer of half-frozen gunk (and that will just be where they keep the Safran Foer’s books).”
– What Writing Programs Ought To Teach You When They Teach You About Writing | The Awl
“Overbay and Vernon Wells is either one of the greatest personnel trolls of all time, or some very deep Moneyball shit I’ll never be smart enough to get. There’s a secret document deep beneath Yankee Stadium that just reads “BE THE 2005 BREWERS DO IT DO IT.”
– Yakkin’ About Baseball: Lucas Duda and the Infinite Sadness | The Classical
“What rhymes with ‘hug me?’”
(Source: Spotify)
Blogroll
