Via this story:
For all his multimillion-dollar lottery winnings, Jack Whittaker can’t seem to do anything but lose.
The man who landed a $315 million jackpot on Christmas Day seven years ago has since lost his wife to divorce, his granddaughter to drugs and now his daughter, found dead in her West Virginia home on July [...]
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July 9th, 2009 at 8:33 pm by Ari Shohat
“Lottery Winner Can’t Stop Losing” – Human nature
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February 27th, 2009 at 7:18 pm by Ari Shohat
Been a long month – good bye SteadyHost
| Business, Life Happens | 2 Comments |
Office moved to Palo Alto – check
Transition to a new data center – check
Closing the doors at SteadyHost.com – check
Booking a vacation week for next month – check
It’s been a a very demanding month, if not more. You see, today was the last day that my colocation and hosting business SteadyHost was up. [...]
February 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pm by Ari Shohat
Frames of Failure
| General Rants, Life Happens | 0 Comments |
Jeremy’s post on failure rang true to me.
Failure is someone’s judgement call, including your own. But a judgment is made on a snapshot in time, usually without getting the complete picture.
Often people make a judgement as if it was on just one or two frames of a film. They have no idea what frames were [...]
December 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pm by Ari Shohat
Risk Capitalism vs Rentier Capitalism
| Economy, Life Happens | 4 Comments |
Earlier in the week Charles had yet another brilliant Triage post.
One of the things that he mentioned is something that I’ve been trying to tell people lately when I hear things like – “see where Capitalism got us.”
I don’t see the implosion of the financial system as my kind of capitalism – which is not, [...]
November 20th, 2008 at 8:42 pm by Ari Shohat
I Really Do Miss the Blog – Am I Back?
| Blogging, Business, Life Happens | 0 Comments |
Hey folks,
I know I know… I’ve been neglecting your attention. I got very busy, and had to make some choices and put my attention on other things. I figured my rambling isn’t as important as the stuff that comes up daily.
To be totally honest, I find this space very cathartic even if it’s just a [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm by Ari Shohat
Do We Need A New Hymn for the Socialist States of America?
| Business, Economy, General Rants, Life Happens | 3 Comments |
Hey folks. Enjoying the financial markets deflating and busting?
Last week, September 11 actually, I celebrated my 17 years in the USA. It’s also my wife’s birthday (and my friend Rob’s birthday). It’s a good day. Used to be an awesome day, untl 2001 when it became synonymous with the terror attacks, but I digress.
After 17 years [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 6:42 pm by Ari Shohat
I Am Still Alive – California Edition
| Blogging, Business, Domaining, General Rants, Life Happens | 0 Comments |
So, this is another personal post. Do pretend you care just a little please.
It’s coming around to almost two weeks that I have moved my family to California’s Bay Area. To be more precise, my family is my wife, two little kids, and mom in law (let’s leave the jokes aside okay).
After being about 18 [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am by Ari Shohat
Interesting Times Huh?
| Business, Economy, Life Happens | 1 Comment |
Consider this:
The price of oil jumped from $117 to $120 within the last 24 hours or so.
Home values around San Francisco Bay area have dropped by over 10% in the last year. In other parts of the country even much much more than that.
Japan ran out of butter, among other things coming up.
Sam’s Club, the [...]
