Hossenfeffer

“Denmark isn’t doing enough to keep Greenland safe… from America.”

FTFY (Finished This For You)

Definitely. I’ve done a full English breakfast challenge once that had six fried eggs and that was no bother. Hard-boiled, I doubt I could do more than three and I’d be struggling on the third.

Saddleback Leather springs to mind. Their stuff is expensive but they have a 100 year warranty and their tag line is “They’ll fight over it when you’re dead”. I have a couple of their bags, belts, and wallets. I don’t expect to ever need to replace them.

First thing I bought from them was a briefcase back in 2011. About three years after I bought it one of the steel D-Rings for the strap failed and they paid courier fees for me to return the briefcase from the UK, replaced the part, cleaned the bag up, and sent it back, no questions asked.

Full disclosure: 1) they’re an American company which might put some off buying in the current climate and 2) the founder is a devout Christian which might put others off but none of their products have ever tried to make me a believer so I’m ok with it.

Art is an attempt to communicate (usually to communicate something of the human condition). Current ‘art’ AI is too far away from intelligence to have anything to communicate. All it can do is mindlessly try to copy and blend what it’s seen before without understanding it.

I don’t hate it, but I also don’t value it.

Best breakfast burrito: the Hawaiian. Ham, potatoes, pineapple, eggs, sour cream.

Damn, that sounds good.

Wait, what?

1. Get real good at Geoguesser
2. Post details to local facebook groups
3. Repeat
4. Once I’ve been proven right a few dozen times become a global sensation
5. Save a life on the daily

I think it’s short-termism combined with capitalism.

Capitalism tells people that success equals money. Short-termism tells people to focus on how much they can grab right now.

Look at the actions of C-suite level people. They do what they can to increase profits this year to get a massive bonus this year. If that means laying off half the company that’s ok because they’re incentivised to maximise profits now. So they do. The next year they’re off to a different job at a different company and they will get that job because “When I was CEO of Mongoose & Felcher I increased YOY global profit by 270%”. Their focus is never on the actual well-being of the company or its employees or on the social or environmental impact of the company because their bonus isn’t dependent on those things.

Politicians are much the same. If they’re not in power they want to get into power. If they are in power they have to act as quickly as possible to achieve their aims because they might only be in power for a single term.

One of my favourite ‘business’ ideas came from Gus Levy who was CEO of Goldman Sachs back in the 1970s. He came up with the term ‘long-term greedy.’ The idea was that you dealt fairly and honestly with your clients, never gouged them, kept your word, and did a good job. Sure, you might make slightly less profit from those clients this year but you would keep them as clients next year too.

No-one seems to be long-term greedy anymore.

Kreps or kraeps

In England those would be pancakes or more rarely crepés. They’re what we have on pancake day.

The thicker American pancakes would be called American pancakes, sometimes Scotch pancakes or drop scones.

I remember the first plane hitting and just gawping at the TV. That seemed bad enough. Fucking passenger plane hitting a skyscraper. WTF? Then the second plane hit the other tower and while the guy on the news was still umming and erring, I knew immediately that it was deliberate.