A special two-fer featuring a lost funk jam and a sandpapery post-punk cover thereof....

Yes. I noticed the slightest hint of sarcasm in the title of this post. This post covers four commonly used measurement techniques that 9 times out of 10 work against the evolution of Reporting Squirrels into Analysis Ninjas. I’ll also admit that most of the times when I encounter them I might...

Cameron just left a question for me in the comments to last night’s recap. He asked: I’m looking at your way of thinking about the market. One of the biggest questions I have, though, is regarding your stops. You said you set your stop at just .20 over your short dollar amount. With all ...

Cameron just left a question for me in the comments to last night’s recap. He asked: I’m looking at your way of thinking about the market. One of the biggest questions I have, though, is regarding your stops. You said you set your stop at just .20 over your short dollar amount. With all of the i...

One of the fun part of my professional life is all the email I get from you. Yes it is an insignificant amount of work but it means I learn a lot about what’s on your mind, what you find hard, what you find easy, what challenges bedevil you. At the moment the “could you help me” / ...

The New York Times > Business > Image > One Way of Measuring a Bank’s Health - Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist - If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle ...

I think Javier Vazquez is going to be terrific this year. Actually, I think Javier Vazquez will be terrific every year. I'm a sucker for great K/BB ratios. The WORST ratio of Vazquez' career was 150/60 in 198 innings in 2004. That's pretty amazing. In his worst season, he was (more or less) Chris Yo...

There are a lot of things that go into whether you find a potential mate attractive, but from an anthropological standpoint, a lot can be boiled down to the waist to hip ratio. This measurement has been touted for a couple of years as an alternative to the body mass index as a measurement of health ...

25 years of existence, 6 heartaches after… Life has never been this clear, this definite, this interesting and scarier than ever! With my first heartbreak I hated the guy like heck for it but loved the world better. High school was never the same. The first few months hurt like hell as most hearta...

Filed under: Misc, NBC, Advertising, Primetime We can't say we spotted this one in person (sorry, Chuck lost its luster after about six episodes), but we'll still join in the chorus of laughter. The image spotted above was an advertisement for Microsoft's little 'ole operating system, known around t...