SubscribeI was running on Rattlesnake Drive this morning, minding my own business when I was passed by a biker. She was riding herroad bike at an appropriate speed. She was 30 feet in front of me when out of nowhere her tires came out from under her and she skidded and scraped to a stop [...]
Category: rants
I Promise, I Won’t Cry If You Give Me a “B”
If I’d gone to law school in the future, I’d have straight A’s (like everyone else). This crap makes me crazy. The top law schools in the country are inflating their grades (they say they are following suit- but I think they’re leading the charge). This one hit home. My very own alma mater, University [...]
AT&T Your Coverage Sucks and I Can’t Wait to Switch to Verizon
Yes, we all rant about AT&T’s crappy coverage, but I think my case is more compelling now. I recently received the following (abridged) email from AT&T: “Dear JULIE M PENNER Our records indicate that you are using a substantial amount of data while roaming in areas not directly served by AT&T. As a reminder, the Terms [...]
Mountain Climbing: It Takes Three Mistakes to Kill You
It’s not always true, but often enough when you hear about mountain climbers that die, it’s often a result of more than one mistake. In fact, I think it usually takes about three. A climber from Boulder was recently killed climbing Mt. Rainier, actually, less than a week after our climbing party was off the mountain. [...]
Montana Power and Senior Thesis Revisited
Turns out I’m not the only one who has done some research on what happened at Montana Power Company. Montana PBS ran a special called Power Brokers all about the scandalous downfall at Montana Power, the same subject of my thesis: thewholethesis(12-18-04) at Brown (bibliography and appendix available by email until I post them). It’s on [...]
The Right: We Love Our Women Without Edumacation
The only thing more frustrating than listening to idiots is listening to smart people who act like idiots. Apparently, you can’t be a good conservative woman in this country AND act your intelligence. Jon Stewart busts Gretchen Carlson for acting stupid. It’s so sad, and so funny. Gretchen, for pity sake, women need good role [...]
E-Book Prices: Irrational Expectations Alive and Well
Dear Publishing Companies: Your industry is dying, but you are still in denial. Let me help you. The cost of making and distributing an e-book is something small for the first one and BASICALLY NOTHING for every one after that. In economics, we say the marginal cost is zero. You can’t reasonably expect people to [...]
It Just Got Easier to Give Money to Brown – Part II
What is it with state schools that they don’t understand that if they want donations from alumni down the road, they have to treat them right while they are students? I say state schools because I’m comparing my experience at Brown, a private school, with my experience at CU, a public school. I’m not saying [...]
Don’t Let Engineers (or Lawyers) Name Stuff
From time-to-time, engineers and lawyers give marketing short shrift, but the naming lesson is a poignant example of the shortcomings or the purely analytical-minded. Years ago in Boston, I watched a presentation by Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot. He’s an engineer, a good one, from MIT no less. He said “Don’t let engineers name stuff.” [...]
HBS BS – By Mike Weinheimer
For anyone who has suffered through HBS cases ad nauseam, this one is for you. It’s what happens when corporate strategy is a literal quagmire of dead horses. For those in the corporate world, think Corporate Bingo. This rant was motivated by an HBS article by Ghemewat & Rivkin titled “Creating Competitive Advantage”. Incredibly, the authors [...]
Dear CU: More Bike Racks Please
This is documentation of the shortage of bike racks on campus on my very short ride from the business school to the law school on Tuesday. The problem is campus-wide. Bikes were locked to literally anything standing still. When I pulled up to the law school, someone was unlocking to leave and said, “Do you [...]
Moral Hazard: Why a Bailout is a Bad Idea
If you haven’t taken economics, maybe you haven’t heard of moral hazard. Apparently neither have politicians. (Part of the problem with not requiring lawyers to have an economic training, but that’s a different gripe.) The simplest definition for moral hazard is thus: the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are [...]
Amazon is Creepy
I was strolling through the blogosphere the other day, and while I was looking around, I saw this in a sidebar: This is creepy. I wasn’t signed into amazon. I wasn’t signed into the blog. It’s one thing when Intense Debate or MyBlogLog cookies me. I expect that on a blog, but Amazon, you are [...]
What I Miss On TV [sigh]
Not Much. I gave up paying for cable at the beginning of the year. It was more of an “I don’t want to pay for this crap” than a “this is rotting my brain” kind of decision. While it seems pretty true from my perspective that only pretentious white people brag about not having TV, [...]
ican’twastemytime
I have no less than four jobs. I can’t afford to dither. Now, I’ll get an iPhone. I’ll get an iPhone soon; but I’m not waiting in line for 4-5 hours on a 90+ degree day to endure an activation process three times as long as it should be. My little Nokia 6820 has held [...]
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