February 2008
47 posts
In The Meantime - Spacehog
“It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Anytime you quit hearing...”
– Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), No Country For Old Men
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with...”
– Betty Reese
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Markéta...
“But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in...”
– Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Nude - Radiohead
“Design is thinking made visual”
– Saul Bass
Horses on the Range - Timmy Curran
Tango Uniform [Definition] →
Military phonetic alphabet for letters ‘T’ and ‘U’, used as euphemistic abbreviation for ‘Tits Up’.
Etymology: From military aviation, where the flight attitude indicator on the aircraft instrument panel contained a miniature representation of an airplane which showed the flight attitude – climb, dive, bank; one style of the indicator was shaped with ‘v’ forms between the ‘dot’ – representing...
Business School Update
Notre Dame - Accepted
Indiana - Interviewed
Babson - Interviewed
Texas - Interviewing
Michigan
Berkeley
UCLA
USC
“Young enough to know the right car to buy, yet grown enough not to put rims on...”
– 30 Something by Jay-Z
New York Minute [Wikipedia] →
Johnny Carson once described a New York Minute as being the time it takes “From the (traffic) lights to turn green, till the guy behind you starts honking his horn.”
Gods that Christians don't believe in vs. Gods... →
“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”
– J. Paul Getty, Oil Tycoon
“Well there’s lots of smart ideas in books I never read.”
– Jimmy Eat World - Big Casino
Business School Update
Indiana - Interviewed
Babson - Interviewed
Notre Dame - Interviewing
Texas - Interviewing
Michigan
Berkeley
UCLA
USC
Bobby Knight [NPR] →
Great summary of Knight’s career by NPR.
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Best coach ever in any sport. Maybe not the nicest human being ever, but no one could teach mid-level talent to win games like this man and you’ve got to love how in to the game he was. He was passionate. He set the record. He will be missed.
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
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The Beatles best work. An amazing song.
“I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.”
– Last words of Kit Carson
Devil May Care [Wikipedia] →
A phrase used to mean wildly reckless or carefree. For example, describing an attitude or person.
“Kay: Do you regret anything?
Richard: Lots. And much more to come.”
– Kay (Rachael McAdams) and Richard Langley (Pierce Bronson), Married Life
“There’s one language all programmers have in common … Profanity.”
Pedantic [Definition] →
Overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
Grok [Definition] →
To have an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think.
Possible Business Schools
Michigan
Berkeley
UCLA
Texas
Indiana
Notre Dame
Babson
USC
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Finally finished applying, now I interview and wait.
“You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent...”
– General George S. Patton
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise...”
– General George S. Patton