http://chimeraobscura.com/vm A Happy Meal fit for a king! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Independence Day, dear (American) readers! Now let's blow some stuff up! Just kidding; I've decided we're going with all book-related links this week, because that's what's piling up in my RSS feed. One year on field study in Africa. What books do you take along? (I'd load up my Kindle, get ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/unrequired-reading-july-4-2008/ I love NHL free agent season, only because it means Miroslav Satan might get picked up. http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/what-would-you-do-for-the-stanley-cup/ No posts today, dear readers. I still have to research and write 1000-word profiles for Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Amgen and Genentech, and 350-word profiles for Merck Serono and Schering Plough. Then I get to lay out the issue over the holiday weekend so we can get it out to the printer ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/working-for-the-weekend/ My dad's MSN e-mail account got spoofed yesterday. In addition, my dad's aversion to travel got spoofed yesterday. As did his not-so-PC racial attitudes. All in one stroke, as you can see from this e-mail I received from his @ddress last night: How are you doing today? I am sorry i ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/spoof/ I'm crazy-busy with these Top Companies profiles and re-confirming all of my conference speakers, but here's a pic from Sunday's trip out to Vernon, NJ for a greyhound meet & greet (so people can find out what awesome dogs greyhounds can be): Rufus had a pretty good time. I mean, he ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-standing-around-of-the-greys/ Happy 100th anniversary of getting your ass flattened by an asteroid, Siberia! http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/whoomp-there-it-is/ What I'm reading: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, along with more 10-K statements and annual reports for my Top Companies issue. What I'm listening to: 5:55 by Charlotte Gainsbourg again. And again. What I'm watching: Yankees-Mets, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, and the ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/what-it-is-63008/ What? You think I'd let him be a Mets fan? http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/rufus-on-deck/ Congrats to Bill Gates and Will Leitch on the last day at their current jobs! http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/just-a-lonely-ol-bill/ You want links? I got links! Just click "More"! Ticks suck. * * * "Franco-German friction has never been far below the surface." * * * The Nonist: always with the eerily beautiful. * * * Correction: Judas will be set apart from the holy generation, not for the holy generation. Please return to your gnostic misreadings. * ... http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/unrequired-reading-62708/