I had money, and I had none I had money, and I had none But I never been so broke That I couldn’t leave town – Jim Morrison
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Daily Archives: September 1, 2008
Maria Bartiromo – Joey Ramone
Right before he died from lymphatic cancer, Joey Ramone recorded this ode to CNBC’s New York Stock Exchange floor reporter, Maria Bartiromo. 1. He never really did seem like a business report kind of guy. One of the funnest things I’ve ever seen was Joey Ramone and his mother on some daytime talk show with a …
Joe Strummer on Smoking
Finally found a copy of Julian Temple’s doc Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten There is an amusing if sad section where a friend of Joe’s remembers that he dressed her down about her decision to quit smoking, where he railed against the vicious modern suppression of the act and posited that most of the …
Darth Vader sues George Lucas for defamation of character
Darth Vader today announced that he has filed a $600 million lawsuit against George Lucas for defamation of character. The lawsuit claims that Lucas became a billionaire off the badass cool of Vader, and yet far from being appreciative Lucas destroyed Vader’s image with a second trilogy that depicted him as a whiny youth rather …
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Gas is cheap
I’m drinking a bottle of water right now. It’s 16.9 ounces and it usually costs about a dollar at a convenience store. There are 128 ounces in a gallon. This implies that I and other bottled water users spend about $8 a gallon on drinking water. Still think gas at $4 a gallon is expensive?
The Marginal Cost of Coca-Cola
I was an economics major so let’s discuss the marginal cost of Coca-Cola, which is apparently zero. The marginal cost of something is the amount it costs to produce more of a product. Usually, the more you make of something the less it costs to be produced. This is because it usually costs some fixed …