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Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:38 pm
by Whistler
New Order is the best. I remember when I found out they used to be Joy Division my mind was totally blown.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:28 pm
by UffishThought
I've just discovered Q.I., and true to its name, it's quite interesting. Also, I think Stephen Fry is fantastic.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:20 pm
by Marduk
He's no Phillip J. Fry.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:04 am
by Digit
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... t-way-luck
Interesting,
One-third of successions between chief executive officers in publicly listed companies in the U.S. involves an incoming CEO related by blood or marriage to the old CEO, the founder, or a large shareholder.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:11 am
by Whistler
D-: nepotism lives on
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:44 pm
by Katya
Digit wrote:http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... t-way-luck
Interesting,
One-third of successions between chief executive officers in publicly listed companies in the U.S. involves an incoming CEO related by blood or marriage to the old CEO, the founder, or a large shareholder.
I've occasionally thought that this may be the closest thing to a hereditary title or position we have in the US.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:22 pm
by Digit
Katya wrote:Digit wrote:http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... t-way-luck
Interesting,
One-third of successions between chief executive officers in publicly listed companies in the U.S. involves an incoming CEO related by blood or marriage to the old CEO, the founder, or a large shareholder.
I've occasionally thought that this may be the closest thing to a hereditary title or position we have in the US.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:27 pm
by Katya
Premium Rush (enjoyed it) and Ink (got bored 30 minutes in)
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:33 pm
by UffishThought
Yay Premium Rush!
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:09 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
Finally watched Juno because someone said my sister was Juno. (No, my sister did not get pregnant as a teenager.) Also finally, finally watched Say Anything. I enjoyed Juno, a lot, but was surprised by Say Anything. Somehow I had been expecting a complete fluff movie.
I've also been reading a lot of Kickstarter projects and it's fascinating, but only to me, so I keep boring everyone around me with my incessant babbling about them. : )
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:23 pm
by Tally M.
Within the past week I've reread my three go-to books. They're my guilty pleasure books that altogether seem to capture my ideal of romance (some ways better than others.)
They are as follows (the books, not the romance ideals):
The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
and my one Mormon author novel about Mormon people; Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog by Jack Weyland
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:10 pm
by Violet
I just watched all of the BBC show The Hour (period drama in the setting of a 1950s investigative news show). The second series was a little less than family-friendly (show girls, blackmail, prostitution, and all sorts of corruption). I still really enjoyed all of it and now I'm depressed that the BBC canceled the next season.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:23 pm
by Digit
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:06 am
by bobtheenchantedone
I watched the new Lincoln movie last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 12:05 pm
by Digit
Very interesting. Scientists used gene therapy on dogs born with a congenital mutation causing blindness in bright light using a recombinant
adeno-associated virus.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 7:00 am
by Digit
JCPenney reintroduces 'fake' prices
[outgoing CEO] Johnson lost his job partly because shoppers rejected his “fair and square” flat everyday pricing. When a table always costs $150, there is no sense of immediacy for shoppers to buy it now. Shoppers also didn’t really buy into the idea that $150 was a good price for the table. But a $245 table that’s marked been discounted to $150? That’s perceived as quite a deal.
That's sad that the majority of consumers
want to be tricked.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 8:16 am
by S.A.M.
Digit wrote:JCPenney reintroduces 'fake' prices
[outgoing CEO] Johnson lost his job partly because shoppers rejected his “fair and square” flat everyday pricing. When a table always costs $150, there is no sense of immediacy for shoppers to buy it now. Shoppers also didn’t really buy into the idea that $150 was a good price for the table. But a $245 table that’s marked been discounted to $150? That’s perceived as quite a deal.
That's sad that the majority of consumers
want to be tricked.
Right. A good friend of mine would purchase that table and exclaim, "Look what I bought! I saved $95!" It was hard for her to realize she hadn't saved any money at all (her savings account was unchanged), but had spent $150 (her checking account was $150 lower).
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 10:05 pm
by krebscout
A geographer friend just loaned me a book called Building Suburbia...it's fascinating. Opens the eyes.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 1:10 pm
by Whistler
I looked at this book on Amazon since you mentioned it--is it about how suburbs are inefficient and made by the government?
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:30 am
by C is for
I've read more books this month than the month has days.
