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The Simpsons Already Did It

Posted on May 10, 2012 by josh

This artsy, black-and-white, slow-motion ad for Samsonite’s new Cosmolite line of luggage has been in high rotation on BBC World lately: And every time I see it, I can’t help thinking of this artsy, black-and-white, slow-motion ad for Springfield’s second-most-successful … Continue reading →

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Talk Nerdy To Me: Amazon EC2 backup pruning script

Posted on May 7, 2012 by josh

As a followup to this previous post – a script that automates EBS snapshots on an Amazon EC2 server – here’s a bash script to prune the EC2 snapshots created by the other script. #!/bin/bashexport EC2_PRIVATE_KEY={path to your AWS private … Continue reading →

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Sadly, saying “shove it up your arse” in a regulatory filing is frowned upon

Posted on May 1, 2012 by josh

Slightly old news (it’s from January) but this is, to put it politely, quite astonishing: when the SGX ordered listed company China Sky Chemical Fibre to appoint a special auditor to investigate its (probably fraudulent) accounts and (probably dodgy) related-party real … Continue reading →

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And to those wondering why I was reading Wilson Phillips’ Wikipedia page, I say “shut up”.

Posted on April 30, 2012 by josh

Really, Wikipedia? On May 5, 2010, [Wilson Phillips] performed to an audience of 350 people at the 79th General Meeting of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors in San Antonio, Texas.

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Steve walks warily down the street / With his brim pulled way down low

Posted on April 28, 2012 by josh

Another one bites the dust. This is a couple of months old, but still newsworthy:  Just a year-and-a-half after the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) started probing Profitable Plots for allegedly not paying investors, BT understands that it is on the … Continue reading →

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I Got The Adverse-Selectin’ Internalisin’ Spread-Compressin’ Blues

Posted on April 27, 2012 by josh

Since it was published on Tuesday, Vincent Cignarella’s article for WSJ MarketBeat – The Foreign Exchange Traders’ Lament, and kudos to the WSJ’s subs for the correctly placed apostrophe – has done the rounds of every spot FX desk on … Continue reading →

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This also explains California… but not the UK

Posted on April 26, 2012 by josh

Paying taxes makes you feel good, says SCIENCE!, which I guess explains why everyone living in Singapore is so miserable? I always thought it was the one-dimensional weather. And the smog. And the Toyota Camrys that cost as much as a … Continue reading →

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Drink ALL the coffee!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by josh

Drink ALL the coffee!, originally uploaded by Shiny Things. Someone at Toby’s Estate has been spending too much time on the internets.

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The end of exile

Posted on April 23, 2012 by josh

The old “About JRE” page text: Your editor is an FX options trader, exiled in sunny Singapore. JRE is finance, politics, economics, and a little bit of travel photography on the side. The new “About JRE” page text:  Your editor … Continue reading →

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Base metals… IN SPAAAACE!

Posted on April 21, 2012 by josh

Just in case you weren’t convinced that we’re living in the future: a newly launched mining company might be about to start exploiting a record-breaking untapped iron ore deposit… in spaaaace: Supported by an impressive investor and advisor group, including Google’s Larry … Continue reading →

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