He spends other people's money and you should bleiev it is millions.

see also - any politician. also, investment managers. also producers.

He has also benefitted from some very sweet deals

see also - any person of means, influence, or family connections that provide either. see also - models, entertainers, and haymakers within those industries.

He has been so well connected it is creepy.

creepy for him, but not others (see above). why?

creepy for him, but not others (see above). why?

He's hiding his real birth records, but not his grades, and maybe some tax returns, but not as many as Romney.

I learnt all this.

Also I learnt how to make a incredibly detailed request of the DBAs, because they barely tolerate people speaking English. Look, I think "structure only dump" is a perfectly legit specification.

Man, I wish the relevant developer were here. I am making some shit up.

creepy for him, but not others (see above). why?

Because he's black.

Puppycat is obsessed with my refrigerator. Because it is hiding a tailless lizard.

What does it even mean to spend someone else's money? If it's not your parents' or your spouse's, I'm pretty sure the money you have to spend becomes yours, regardless. I guess not if you're actually a thief.

Well, he's the president. He can totes spend our money.

Which...would be like all the other presidents, not more or less.

Money ain't got no owners, only spenders.

Ohhhh, like everything the government does? Sure. If we're talking personal expenditures, his salary becomes his, as do book sales, etc.

I realize I do not need to tell you this.

I can't believe I've had corn meal in my house for so long and was still making corn muffins from a box. It was like two more ingredients, and slightly more delicious.

I need to be told things. Apparently no one believes children are born scientists, yet this needs to be debunked. Also, having your software say "in 1 second" is gold-plating, and what concrete value does NOT BEING WRONG have? (eta: grammatically wrong--I understand that no computer in the history of ever has correctly predicted how long a second that hasn't happened yet (measuring work your computer is doing) is going to span. Or not span.)

Hey! I'm leaving work before 6 today. And not just because my manager and boss aren't here, but also because I didn't sleep Saturday night BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE DIDN'T TAKE MY SHIT SERIOUSLY. I could have been back in bed by 2 (or at the ER, not trying to send work emails hopped up on dilaudid) if they'd taken me seriously when I said shit needed to be scheduled. Instead of telling me at 8:30am that stuff was pretty much done.

So I'm on hour 11 of parent teacher conferences and still have over 2 hours to go. I am ready for this to be done!

Oh, hey. I have a question about identity, minority, and majority. I just read:

"I grew up reading a generation of American and English people like [Saul] Bellow, [John] Updike or [Martin] Amis. Everybody’s neutral unless they’re black — then you hear about it: the black man, the black woman, the black person. Of course, if you happen to be black the world doesn’t look that way to you. I just wanted to try and create perhaps a sense of alienation and otherness in this person, the white reader, to remind them that they are not neutral to other people." Zadie Smith, discussing how she never mentions the race of any of the characters in her new novel, NW, unless they are white

The assumption here seems to be that white people don't mention race of white people. I can't work out if it is also that black people don't mention race of black people. How do Asian people deal? Are they in the book?

I'll probably tell you everyone's race or no one's, but unless it's a sooper sekrit NAACP meeting, probably not just the one.

So I'm wondering if her book is supposed to echo my experience or it's just supposed to mirror an experience for us of reading white-as-default books.

I keep remembering people realising the race of the protagonist in Anansi Boys because they only mention race when white, but that's not my black experience, so it confused me.