The Frustrated CFO

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PRESIDENT LAURA ROSLIN

You seem hell-bend on paying some kind of penance for whatever it's you think you've done.  Instead of resigning, why don't you get up and walk out of here, meet me on the port-hangar deck tomorrow evening for this ceremony and let me pin a fucking medal to your chest.

ADMIRAL WILLIAM ADAMA

I can't.

PRESIDENT LAURA ROSLIN

It's not for you.  It's for them.  Stand up there, acknowledge your fleet and give them what they need - a Hero.  That'll be your penance, even if it kills you.

 

"Battlestar Galactica," Episode 3.8, written by Ronald Moore & David Eick

                                                             

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"Well, fads they come and fads they go.

And, God, I love that rock-and-roll!

Well, the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss.

Life handed us a paycheck, we said, 'We worked harder than this.'"

                                                                                              Modest Mouse

                                                                                            "Bury Me With It."

 

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Below is an actual exchange of comments to a post at Movies.com, reacting to the Blu-ray release by The Criterion Collection of Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" - "Criterion Corner #14: 'Tiny Furniture' and the Future of Important Films."

Commenter X:

"Will 'Tiny Furniture' be the first film in The Criterion Collection shot on Canon 7D?"

Commenter Y:

"'Tiny Furniture' will be the first film in The Criterion Collection that should be shot out of a cannon."

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"My answer is no, ther're not all Michele Bachmann.  Half of them are Michele Bachmann.  The other half are afraid of losing to Michele Bachmann."

                            Barney Frank

Quote of the Week: Woes of Thumb-Typing

Louis C.K. is right - the shittiest cellphone on the market right now is an amazing piece of technology that, in its design and abilities, exceeded all expectations we had for hand-held devices twenty years ago (this is not the quote of the week, by the way). Business folk, plagued by the email-separation anxiety disorder, are especially grateful for the remedy introduced by BlackBerry twelve years ago. I know people (not me, though) who give an impression that they were born with a black thingy, adorned with a tiny LCD screen, growing out of the palms of their hands. Some of these addicts have become virtuoso thumb-typers. Still, from time to time the minuscule QWERTY keyboards respond with some hilarious pearls.

The following is taken from an actual email exchange between a Logistics Manager in front of her computer and a Sales Manager on his BlackBerry.

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Logistics Manager:

I have to let go of the truck I've reserved for today's loading because we haven't heard from your customer.

Sales Manager:

I was working so hard to avoid letting the trick go.

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"It's only in our self-confident time of knowledge popularization, through the most powerful weapon of ignorance - mass publication, that the subject of free will could be reduced to ... naturalism."

                          Leo Tolstoy

                          "War and Peace," 1869

                                                            Translated by MZ

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"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."

                          Ayn Rand

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"For now we see through a glass, darkly"

                           1 Corinthians 13:12

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INT. OFFICES OF WERTSHAFTER CPA & ASSOCIATES

TED SCHMIDT CPA, who has been fired by his boss for non-business use of the Internet on the job after 9 years with the firm, is about to leave the premises forever with his Mr. Coffee and a few personal effects in a box.

MR. WERSHAFTER

Schmidt?

TED

Yes, sir?

MR. WERSHAFTER

One more thing. Are you happy being an accountant?

TED

Happy?

MR. WERSHAFTER

Does balancing the books makes your heart beat faster?

Bummed out Ted takes a moment to contemplate the question. He sighs.

TED

No, sir, not really.

MR. WERSHAFTER

Then, I am doing you a favor. Next time find yourself something you have a passion for. Otherwise, you are just jerking yourself off.

QAF, Episode 2.2, written by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman

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"Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.  People have always been like this."

                                                    Gustave Flaubert