Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Recap of Q3 2021 Earnings
Ahhh, poo. They removed the video. Oh, well. Ya snooze, ya lose!
Relax!
Well, the jobs report, and its effect on the market isn’t especially inspiring for me to write about – – so let’s kick off the day with something light, funny, and irrelevant:
Words of Wisdom
Richest-man-in-the-world Elon got into some trouble recently for this tweet (which, uncharacteristically, he deleted) in which he declared he would start a school called Texas Institute of Technology & Science……….
Pure Norm
My love of the late Norm MacDonald has been well-expressed here on Slope. I wanted to share below what I consider the pinnacle. Unfortunately, this is merely the audio, and there are a few portions (particularly when Gilbert is pantomiming sex acts) where the visual helps, but 99% of the wonderfulness is still here. This is a wholly unscripted, off-the-cuff conversation, but if you dissected it, there are hundreds of jokes built into it, rising to a crescendo near the end with poor Adam Eget. I have easily listened to this whole thing twenty times.
