October 17, 2010

In today's NYT Crossword: Sunday, October 17, 2010 34D "Dies ___" (hymn)

IRAE used 78 times since November, 1993.



The Missa pro defunctis, the Mass for the dead.

A day of wrath; that day,
it will dissolve the world into glowing ashes,
as attested by David together with the Sibyl.

What trembling will there be,
when the Judge shall come
to examine everything in strict justice.



Book review in today's Newsday. I never realized that their reviews come from elsewhere, in this case: The Washington Post.


Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Today's Op-Ed piece by Maureen Dowd titled Playing All the Angles is pretty damn funny.



As people in the financial field say: Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results. Let's go Yankees !



Reviewed in the Washington Post.



Very hot on the club circuit according to my son. Yolanda Be Cool is derived from a line in Pulp Fiction - Jules: "Yolanda, I thought you said you were gonna be cool. Now when you yell at me, it makes me nervous. And when I get nervous, I get scared. And when motherfuckers get scared, that's when motherfuckers accidentally get shot."



Watched Godfather III. Some good scenes and Eli Wallach.



Guys could dance.

September 25, 2010

Oktoberfest typically begins in late September. This year it runs from September 18th to October 3rd, 2010.



To celebrate Oktoberfest, the Sam Adams Harvest Collection.



The beers are interesting and tasty. The bottled Sam Adams Oktoberfest is better than the tap version, a rare event. The tap is very good but the bottle has more flavor.



Michael Lewis is always interesting, so I will see what he has to say about the last financial collapse. His latest article in Vanity Fair about Greece: Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds is required reading.



Picked this one up from the Queens Library. Great book, all about Heuristics which are cognitive rules of thumb, hard-wired mental shortcuts that everyone uses every day in routine decision-making and judgment.

Gladwell used the term"Thin-Slicing" in Blink.

This book offers a quick tour of such topics as: familiarity heuristic;acceptance heuristic and default heuristic or consistency heuristic. The introduction cites to Avalanche victims and the poor decisions that were made: First Paper and Second Paper.



Looks like the Yankees got to climb to the light.