No snarky, self-consciously ironic, NSFW post here. Jennifer 8 Lee just wrote a book called, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles." Haven't read it so I can't hype it but I was pleasantly surprised to see her set the record straight with one fact regarding my Pop, Yongsik Lee. Yes, this is how I went to college. My Dad invented the first fully-automated fortune cookie machine and I witnessed first hand the #1 requirement in starting a business: sweat.
I spent one year writing fortunes and in true outsourcing (ie, laziness) fashion, I hired a Harvard JD/PhD in Philosophy to write the fortunes for me. I paid $.50 per accepted fortune. A true CPI model. A man before my time. I never actually calculated the lifetime value of a fortune so maybe I wasn't really before my time...
Congrats, Jennifer, and look forward to reading your first work!
Monday, March 3, 2008
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Rickey Henderson Classic
Among the many terrific Rickey Henderson jokes is the one where Bobby Valentine was reading the newspaper in the dugout, and Rickey Henderson asked him, ‘what paper do you have there?’ and Valentine goes, ‘Wall Street Journal’ and Henderson goes, ‘pass me the sports section.’
From The Big Lead.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Resilience
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
- Nick Faldo
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Boom Goes The Dynamite 2.0
From With Leather. It's actually quite harsh because everyone at some point suffers from speaking anxiety...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
High School Yearbook Quotes
An excerpt:
Never say anything maudlin or sentimental about the person you're dating -- you will be linked to them forever and ever. Just remember, when you get to college, you will break up with them by Columbus Day Weekend, probably get back together during Thanksgiving Break, then break up for good during Christmas vacation. Everyone thinks, "Oh, it won't happen to us." Believe me, it's going to happen -- 99 out of 100 people eventually break up with their high school flames. So keep the gooey stuff to minimum. If you're devoting a quote to your significant other, choose this one: "Dead man walking!"
