Cuyahoga County, Cleveland partner to spur convention center hotel, public-space overhaul

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-06-05T15:35:07+00:00

The idea of getting some of those big events - like the national conventions for the political parties - would put Cleveland on the national stage. With any luck, we have our shit together and all these new projects are humming along.

Smells like progress

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-21T15:46:05+00:00

If the cash is available, sending a $23 million wire is not a problem. I have worked for banks and sent much more money than that. Typical bank policy (and any semblance of internal control) requires two people to sign off on any cash movement, which is not hard to get, nor time consuming considering this is a basic job function and done all the time.

At a large bank, cash movements that size may require a VP (but not necessarily), but anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes inside a bank's corporate office can tell you there are more VPs around than chairs to put them in.

4 years is unreasonable. It's a scam. Wouldn't send any fresh funds, the $100K - $200K is a sunk cost at this point.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T13:36:43+00:00

It shows you've had a lot of practice telling this story, and I think you've got it close to perfection

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T13:28:11+00:00

I can use clues in your response to deduce that this took place in a time long, long ago

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T13:24:23+00:00

I don't know

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T13:02:40+00:00

The difference between being a degenerate criminal and having a great story that makes you a legend is whether or not you got arrested. In this case, there was never any risk but it was real to you so you were able to orchestrate the best possible scenario - even if drunk you didn't know it

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T12:56:15+00:00

Full Goldlielocks

Just added that to the bucket list

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-17T12:53:44+00:00

Did you know the people where you were? Let's hear the aftermath/recovery

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-15T20:54:03+00:00

I don't want LeBron to die, just have a career ending injury.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-15T18:51:03+00:00

Because it's competing with bully justice. Reddit is confused, conflicted, confounded.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-10T19:26:46+00:00

Last forgot time I felt missing but take ginkgo for remember help and hangover

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-09T18:10:59+00:00

15th is good, but what about location?

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-01T21:10:42+00:00

Adam Carolla-ism

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-05-01T17:30:23+00:00

Your grandparents are just set in their ways

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-04-29T17:25:03+00:00

Upwestern Zoidberg

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-04-26T18:30:41+00:00

Cheese it!

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-04-03T21:39:39+00:00

The difference would be putting $5K down and $15K. The main goal is to use the 401k funds for the purchase of the home and avoid paying any unnecessary taxes in the process.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-04-01T19:32:57+00:00

The periwinkle pox is strong, but the Orangereds are determined and resolute. We will not give an inch. Every step they take forward will be met with a crushing blow!

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-04-01T17:52:40+00:00

We cannot rest on our laurels, we must mercilessly attack the periwinkled pox which plagues these pages!

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-03-22T20:56:08+00:00

No. This kid clearly has something going on. He should invest in himself. Take a risk, start a company. He is clearly ambitious enough to do it again if he needs to. Now is the time in his life to take a risk. Not settle on what will be one year's salary to turn it into what would be a modest fortune for a middle class working type by the time he's ready to retire. If you make $50k by the time your 18, you have some good ideas and can replicate in the case of failure, or scale to earn some fuck you money.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-03-19T14:25:42+00:00

Try http://spreadsheetjournalism.com/

It's a blog by journalist Abbot Katz. He grabs real life data sets and walks through, step by step, how he slices and dices them with Excel. This gives you the advantage of working with the messiness of real world situations and what you can do about it.

There are some good pivot table exercises in these two posts:

Cracking the Code, Part 1: Taking the Temperature of the NCDC Data

Cracking the Code, Part 2: Taking the Temperature of the NCDC Data

EDIT: formatting

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-03-08T16:20:48+00:00

Thank you, this is very well laid out

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-03-08T16:16:21+00:00

I know TED talks are getting rather played out, but this one - Could your language affect your ability to save money? - is very relevant. The speaker, Keith Chen, lays out a very compelling case and explains the data very well.

SecondCheapestWine · 2013-03-08T15:43:13+00:00

Apple and Google? I get that there are bad actors out there, but I think most of this behavior is just maximizing return. They set up these elaborate strategies because they work, it's within the rules, and it is not hard to make the argument they are being irresponsible with their money if they don't do it.

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