Office with a view

The view from my desk. Looking at this sure beats staring at the screen.

An ignoble pursuit

I can no longer bring myself to read about the current financial crisis and the various attempts to bail out banks and prop up capitalism yet again, but amongst the saturation media coverage (only seven pages in the main news section of today's paper) I came across this in today's Guardian...

"The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich."
read on

Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions

Here's a link to a speech by the writer David Foster Wallace, who died recently, reflecting on the difficulties of daily life and 'making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head'. Up till now I have never read anything by Wallace, but having read this I plan to.

Sadly, Wallace did suicide.

But beautiful

I’ve just finished reading Geoff Dyer’s ‘But beautiful’ and kept thinking about this amazing pic as I read.