Via Bloomberg Businessweek, The Pay-for-Performance Myth, a chart of CEO pay and Stock Returns.
Sure, I see the trend…
Author: fish1964
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Floor should be flat
I mentioned our great weekend in Nantucket but didn’t mention the return home. When we walked in, I headed to the kitchen and nearly tripped. Because our wood floors had buckled.
Our neighbor apparently had a dishwasher leak. Their dishwasher is directly opposite the wall where the buckling starts. But they are arguing that this could not have caused so much damage and there must be some other issue.
Possibly true.
But the facts as of today are:
- There was a dishwasher leak in their apartment
- Right after that, we had water damage
- The water damage started exactly opposite their dishwasher
This is tricky because we really like our neighbors. And regardless of the cause, it’s not like they wanted to flood our place. So we can’t be mad. But at the end of the day, replacing wood floors isn’t cheap, so who wouldn’t want to put the blame elsewhere? (in a co-op, a building leak would be paid for by the building). So I get their reaction.
The bad thing here is that this could drag on for a while. I don’t care who is to blame, I just want my floors fixed.
We’ll see how this plays out…
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Learning to Dive
Some friends of ours with real money rented a house in Nantucket for two weeks and invited us for a long weekend. The house was spectacular and had a nice pool. My daughters are both fish, so it was pretty clear the weekend would be mainly spent in the pool.
But neither of my daughters can dive. Danielle, now 11, learned to swim very well, but always had a mental block with diving. Tori is just 7, so plenty of time for her to learn it.
The problem is that I never knew how to dive. I didn’t grow up around swimming pools, we went camping and I swam in lakes. Not a lot of diving boards.
I taught myself to at least dive from the edge of a swimming pool, just to encourage Danielle, but a diving board turns me into a dangerous belly flop machine.
This pool had a small diving board about 2 feet above the water. Pretty tame. The first day I told Danielle, “three days in a pool, be a shame to not learn to dive”.
Day 1, she’s thinking about it. Day 2 she practices diving from the edge of the pool and gets pretty comfortable. So day 3 she decides to give the board a shot. Of course she wants me to try as well. And she comes up with the best way to start (at least for us). Just walk the board to the end, don’t stop, just dive. Don’t give yourself any time to think about it.
And it worked. Suddenly we’re both diving. An hour later, we’re getting some air, going for distance, big fun. (I have video of this, but I’ve been expressly forbidden to share it.)
So this will be forever remembered as the weekend Danielle (and I) learned to dive.
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Verizon Throttling Netflix
A technical but reasonably concise explanation of how Verizon is slowing down Netflix, from Level 3.
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Stuart Scott Gets the Jimmy V Award
I didn’t watch the ESPYs but I’m glad I caught this later. As a father, the ending almost made me cry…
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Word Crimes
I didn’t realize “Weird Al” Yankovic was still around. This one appeals to the grammar snob in me…
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RE2PECT
The Jeter haters out there won’t like this…
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Never Use Comcast
Assuming you have a choice…
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Two Factor Security Relies on Both Factors
This is kind of amusing. Two factor security is really very cool. Gmail handles it very well. If I log into Gmail from a coffee shop or random computer, Gmail sends my phone a text to make sure it’s me. Much harder to hack my email.
But a Wall Street Journal reporter decided to show how cool two factor security was by publishing his Twitter password. Not realizing that the key word in “two factor security” is “two”.
No one hacked his Twitter account, he just got so many text messages that his phone became unusable.
So use two factor authentication. Really, it’s the best. Just don’t hand out one of the factors…
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