And you are here why?

Its part of the human condition - the desire to solve all the problems you encounter with the tools that you currently have.  Its not necessarily a bad thing - when Goongrah was being attacked by the Bear in the days of yore, he defended himself with the club he was carrying, since saying " Yo Mr. Bear.  Hang on whilst i go fetch my spear from yonder cave.  And by the way, Ugh "  wasn't really an option. But ye gods, has this ever evolved into some remarkable insanity, especially in The World Of Development.  Everything, but everything needs to be done using the same tools.  People will go out of their way, and twist themselves into knots to retrofit all their problems to their one solution.  Take databases for example - till fairly recently people had two hammers (if that) - that they could use MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle for their persistence needs, and memcache for their key-value store.  And to be serious, some of the more devout ones...

This is the Highlight app logo. WTF?  I mean, seriously, WTF?  This is going to take SXSW by storm ?  I mean, I bet it might, but ye gods, that logo...

From the LA Times Simpsons : Parody of Game of Thrones

The Reformed Broker has a brilliant post up on generating financial content .  Some choice pieces How to write a stock article for   CNNMoney   or   MarketWatch : Line up quotes from a bull and a bear on a given stock - give a paragraph to each to state their case on the company, conclude by saying it's too early to tell who's right. [...]How to write for   Motley Fool : For your subject, pick a stock with a high message board-to-headline ratio on Yahoo Finance (thus guaranteeing interest and clicks).  Promote the CAPS community within the first paragraph, the last paragraph should essentially be an ad for   Hidden Gems   or   Rule Breakers   of some such newsletter product. [...] How to write for the   Forbes   or   HuffPo   network:  Doesn't matter, it'll be buried amid seven million other pieces of content, no one will read it. [...] How to write a   trader blog post : Upload several charts from...

per Mike Konczal who parses the World Income Database for us, we have the wonderful tidbits “The top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery.” (T)he gains become quite high the further you walk up the inequality ladder and Timothy Noah points out from the same paper that (R)oughly one out of every four dollars earned in the United States during 2007 went to people whose family income exceeded about $420,000 in 2010 dollars The one percent's income share fell to 20.95 in 2008 and 18.12 in 2009. But in 2010 it bounced back up to 19.77 Check out the chart above, showing the income distribution over time.  To summarize it, income inequality was - oh so briefly - falling after The Great Recession, but those days are over, the 1% are doing just fine, thank you very much, and the rest of us are, well, sucking eggs all over again. It still baffles me as to why people aren't more upset at this.  I suspect " Making it into the NBA "...

You are not going to make it into the NBA Corollary It doesn't matter how hard you work at it, this is a Probability Zero event Corollary 2 You always think the odds are way better than they actually are Example I can win the lottery. I will make it into the 1% (by working really hard)     Addendum People remain convinced that, against all odds, they will succeed at some ridiculously impossible endeavor. The real odds of making it into the NBA are actually somewhere south of 0.03 % (close to drawing four of a kind in Poker) Most people think that The odds of getting into the NBA doesn't matter, so long as you work really hard at it (and believe in yourself...) If pressed, they'll say that the odds of getting into the NBA are > 1%

Dulce de leche Nutella Capers Pork Products Guanciale Pork Belly Mortadella (oh, hell, any  salumi, 'specially from Emilia-Romagna) Chatni Pudi Burrata Nutella (its really, really perfect) Avrekalu   Real home-made pasta (the kind actually made at home. Your home) Mango Lambrusco (the real stuff from Emilia-Romagna.  Not Riunite) Hummus Clearly not in order of preference...