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article made me feel pretty good.

what the new yorker said, was that enron didn't hide anything, obviously i'm only a sophomore in college so feel free to correct me if any of this looks wrong to any of you, but that all of revenue for enron was coming on deals that they'd get paid for when the contract starts, 2016 and the like. And also was their heavy reliance on SPE's. Which i'm basically paraphrasing as i'm reading : for a high money loan and to bypass high interest, they set up a partnership called the SPE, the bank lends money to the partnership, and it gives it to the business. It does not show up on balance sheets and many companies do this. Enron got in trouble by not getting SPE loans with deals it was sure to recoup on, it was using them on less reliable deals, which is where it got in trouble. now here was the point of the article, all of this info was reported and available, unfortunately all of this was hundreds of thousands of pages, literally, and would take an expert to figure it out over weeks. As the writer goes on to say, the judge accused enron of not releasing the info in a way we could understand, yet there were summaries of summaries of summaries and it was still 200 pages that was just as complicated to understand. Now, i should clarify at this point, that he is not saying enron didn't do anything wrong, what Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote the article, is saying is that business deals are getting so complicated that we need to change the way we look at companies to prevent such a failure. As he pointed out, if we were to look at their tax returns we saw that they weren't paying any income tax, because they weren't making any money. it was really fascinating, i encourage you all to try and find it.

baxter was the star of anchorman

interesting reaction. I thought it looked awful. his movies seem to be nose diving in terms of quality, or at least just wearing me down.

anyone read that huge story on enron in the new yorker? it was pretty interesting.

as a punishment for year round warm weather. this is awful.

wilco's kicking television is probably my favorite live album because i got to hear nels cline really shine. as for best of, considering blur's pension for inconsistency on albums, i found their best of pretty good.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 16, 2007 -> 09:10 PM) But were you at the game, dressed in Sox gear with a half dozen of your best buddies (all of whom happen to be Angel fans). oh that's awful. No i was safely at home going mad.

the paniagua episode is so funny because its so theoretical. If he had never come in, would the twins not have had momentum coming in the next two. I don't think that much of it, i chalk it up more to just disappearing.

in fact i would like some outside the box thinking on capital punishment if there is going to be capital punishment. I think we should look towards the governator's own 'running man' for possible ideas.

it could be written in arabic about an american captive? Yes. well, actually what i said doesn't entirely work because it says hussein's half brother hanged, but it would work if i also added [insert american captives name] hanged.. ......and there's a bonus! Really covered my bases there.

i stopped reading after the first page and this has nothing to do with the argument over whether this is a football town, because it is. BUt i do find it amazing how people have forgotten how popular the hawks were in the early to mid nineties. I used to be able to list the entire 94 hawks team, and yet i can barely remember most of the 94 bears season. The UC used to be packed even after it was decided it was a remarkably disappointing experience coming from Chicago stadium to the UC. What Wirts has done to that franchise is so saddening. I don't watch the hawks, and i don't know s*** about the hawks anymore. And that is his fault, entirely. btw, does anyone remember that paper "the blue line". Oh man i used to love that.

ahh damn we were so close. Stefhon hannah with the ball in his hands in clutch situations looks a lot like batman running with the bomb over his head in the first batman movie.

Recent DVD purchases: Kicking and Screaming (baumbach, criterion co.) Being There (wanted to see this forever, loved the book, amazed at how well Sellers brought it to life on screen!) Masculin Feminin (Godard, Criterion Co. - still haven't seen)

maybe Iraq should switch to the gas chamber, shooting range, etc. This hanging thing just ain't working out. also, tex is throwin some burn sauce in this thread.

Dinosaurs. ...

lets keep talking aboot the bulls.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 14, 2007 -> 06:35 AM) Didn't they just do or are getting ready to bring back a second season of Stella? ??? !!!!

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Jan 14, 2007 -> 06:07 AM) Ill have to third and fourth Freaks and Geeks. I never saw it until a recent ex had the whole set on DVD and it was real good. I dont think I even heard of it when it was on tv. What channel was it on. ennnnn beeee seeeee

17 game winning home runs, renamed "lil' papi"

stella

dad was an orioles fan, took us to sox games, frank thomas is the reason.

undeclared. freaks and geeks.

i absolutely loathe claptons version of i shot the sheriff.

i think their musicianship improved. I heard some hot modest mouse guitar licks in there.