Nickel for my thoughts (dimes in my bed?)
Some random thoughts as I eat dinner in my apartment (miss you guys):
1. Intra-day forex trading is GAMBLING. Just started a virtual account for work and it’s analogous to flight simulator; it’s like the most boring video game you ever played; not particularly easy, but when you do “win” you (mistakenly) feel like you can trade currencies/fly a plane for a living. That said, I’m currently up 1% after a day.
2. The amount of people with dogs in New York City is ludicrous. I would say, from my trip to and from the office, 1 in every 5 people on the street are walking a dog. My guess? New Yorkers are the loneliest people on the planet. With 8 million people packed in such a small place, you’d think it’d be the opposite. However, unlike college it’s not who you hang out with that defines you, but what you do with your career. And that career will probably keep you in an office for 11-16 hours a day.
3. The Swiss National Team today played brilliant soccer. They neutralized a Spanish attack (considered the best in the world by many) by concentrating their tall players in the box. I can’t count on two hands and my feet how many failed crosses I saw in that game. Of course, Spain had their chances (this game should have been 3-2 in favor of Spain), but they could be the upset team to miss the 2nd stage. England too, but they always manage to find a way to fuck up.
4. Darrelle Revis needs to take a basic course in economics. He wants to be the highest paid player at his position; this is fine, he deserves it. However, the current highest-paid cornerback is Nnamdi Asomugha (very fucking good when healthy) who receives 16mil/yr contract from Al Davis. This (Davis) is the same ass hat who drafted Jamarcus Russell over AP and Heyward-Bey in the 1st rd. Al Davis needs to pay Nnamdi 14% above market value in order to keep any top talent on that god forsaken team; the Jets shouldn’t. The next highest-paid cornerback? Asante Samuel at 14mil. After that, its Terence Newman, whose average contract is ~11mil/yr. Revis, should take 14.5 and come back to the team that will immortalize his career.
I’m thinking about topics to write about next, and I think a chronicling of a day as an intern on the trading floor would be pretty interesting. The reality of life on the trading floor at investment banks is improperly depicted in the media (think “Wall Street”, “Boiler Room”, and unfortunately, Dealbreaker). Until then, have a happy Father’s Day and make sure you find a way to show him how much you appreciate him for planting that seed that created you. Personally, I can’t remember the last time I kissed my father, and in continuing this tradition I will instead buy him an overpriced electronic device that he probably won’t bother using. Any ideas welcome.
I’ll leave you with a link to the most boss pad you’ve never seen.
Lets break down the device:
Metaphorically Speaking
I’ve always been an avid supporter and fan of (most) Hip-Hop. I think the artistic nature of the genre is comparable to no other. The beats, the style, the confidence (arguably cockiness), and the overall “culture” all contribute to its appeal. I agree that today, a lot of the raw talent and artistry has become industrialized to appease a more generic audience. Sometimes, the Hip-Hop arena seems more like a circus.
One aspect of Hip-Hop that has always fascinated me is the emphasis on lyricism. More specifically, a nicely delivered metaphor has always made me rewind a rap.
There are times when I think of the most amazing metaphors, but then forget them. I can relate to Kanye when he says “I forgot better lines than you ever thought of.” I literally (as opposed to metaphorically) thought of the most amazing metaphor (I’m exaggerating, but it was pretty dope) that inspired me to write this blog post, and by the end of my last sentence it slipped my mind, and thus led me to write this sentence.
Here is a metaphor I thought of a few weeks back – “My metaphors are more like metafives.” (Don’t steal it!)
Lupe definitely has clever metaphors, including this one:
“Never met her before, but I like her, like a metaphor.”
–Sunshine
A metaphor about metaphors! Sick, sort of like my metaphor above right?
Of course, Jay-Z never fails to deliver:
“If you don’t give me heaven, I raise hell…”
-Justify My Thug
So effortless, yet so effective this man is.
One day, I’m going to write the sickest metaphor…
“For you, I wanna write the sickest rhyme of my life
So sick it’ll blow up the mic, it’ll put the dyna in mite
Yeah it’ll make the dopest MC wanna jump off a bridge and shit hisself
Tap dancin’ all over the beat, it’ll jump off the page and spit itself”
-You’re Never Over, Eminem
The question is– is it better to have thought and forgot, than to have never thought at all?
Like Common said, sometimes we catch ‘Alzrhymers’.
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