Drownings real and imagined
1) I hate to tell them this, but LJ was developed in the 21st century so its users can hardly be dragged into it. Unless, of course, they mean the 20Teens, which is not the same thing.
2) As I mentioned in my last post, we watched Moneyball, and amusingly enough this past week's White Collar the same night. I'm going to assume given Carnivale that the episode was written specifically to give these two actors the chance to show off their skills/passions. Of course, when I really laughed was when Peter capped off his speech about choices in his MLB career with "and then I would have never caught you."
3) Regarding this week's Castle I could not believe that opening scene. After all the big drama of the two drowning in the car, they give some absurd, handwavy explanation of how the two are standing sipping coffee at the edge of the pier. What? Castle had already been under water long enough for Beckett to drown, and yet he still had enough air to, what, shoot out the windows, drag her out and then swim to the surface which was apparently a hundred feet down by that point? Dumb, dumb, DUMB!
4) Some interesting data on how books get discovered by some readers.
5) Not surprisingly, once U.S. banking and finance execs got involved in microlending, disaster followed. " A profound shift in values and incentives at SKS began in 2008...The company brought in new top executives from the worlds of finance and insurance...SKS also began transferring more loans off its books, selling highly rated pools of loans to banks, which then assumed most of the associated risk of borrower default... In December 2009, SKS launched a massive sales drive. The "Incentives Galore" program ran through February 2010 — just one month before the company filed its IPO prospectus... One loan officer signed up 273 groups in a month. Under training protocols, the ideal number of groups formed per month is 12, the maximum is 36."
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2) As I mentioned in my last post, we watched Moneyball, and amusingly enough this past week's White Collar the same night. I'm going to assume given Carnivale that the episode was written specifically to give these two actors the chance to show off their skills/passions. Of course, when I really laughed was when Peter capped off his speech about choices in his MLB career with "and then I would have never caught you."
3) Regarding this week's Castle I could not believe that opening scene. After all the big drama of the two drowning in the car, they give some absurd, handwavy explanation of how the two are standing sipping coffee at the edge of the pier. What? Castle had already been under water long enough for Beckett to drown, and yet he still had enough air to, what, shoot out the windows, drag her out and then swim to the surface which was apparently a hundred feet down by that point? Dumb, dumb, DUMB!
4) Some interesting data on how books get discovered by some readers.
5) Not surprisingly, once U.S. banking and finance execs got involved in microlending, disaster followed. " A profound shift in values and incentives at SKS began in 2008...The company brought in new top executives from the worlds of finance and insurance...SKS also began transferring more loans off its books, selling highly rated pools of loans to banks, which then assumed most of the associated risk of borrower default... In December 2009, SKS launched a massive sales drive. The "Incentives Galore" program ran through February 2010 — just one month before the company filed its IPO prospectus... One loan officer signed up 273 groups in a month. Under training protocols, the ideal number of groups formed per month is 12, the maximum is 36."
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