Month: October 2012

Just roll a dice instead

Of course, a lot of Wall Street traders, and others, don’t want it to be known that they’re relying on anything other than their own talent. Arch Crawford, a financial astrologer who actually got his start on Wall Street as a stock analyst at Merrill Lynch, recalls one subscriber asking for his newsletter in “brown paper wrappers.”

in other words, retarded children playing with other people’s money who can’t get a real job.

Clerical errors

after recent experiences with both the judicial system (as a juror) and as a patient of the medical system, the amount of clerical errors in both is astonishing. both systems drown in paperwork and both refuse to adapt any technology not from the 19th century to deal with it. total amateur hour, with criminal consequences.
2015-07-09:

After a hospital error, 2 pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as 2 pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another