Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, is trying to introduce an amendment to a stopgap measure to finance the government through the rest of the fiscal year that would prevent Mr. Obama from using federal money to transport himself to and from golf outings until the White House resumed its tours.
BBC’s Come Fly With Me — a fascinating documentary on Pan Am, narrated by a Bond Girl
Very pleased with my first ever homemade curry
Beignets! (at Aaron’s House of Grilling)
Hungary team dinner (at Spíler)
Budapest Flurries (at Szent István Bazilika)
Budapest Winter (at Le Méridien Budapest)
O Pioneer!: Work
That Gawker Media gets a bad rap is no surprise to me. I worked there for some four years, and bigger than that, I cut my teeth there — Nick Denton is the man to whom I owe my career; he taught me to write fearlessly, though oftentimes the writing I did is stuff that I’m ashamed of to this day. I…
Impersonations by Kevin Spacey
As one high-ranking former executive in the services business recalls, at his first meeting with [then HP CEO] Apotheker—to provide the lowdown on the services business—he and a dozen people gathered in a conference room to hear the presentation, only to watch as Apotheker nodded off. The group waited uncomfortably for about 15 minutes. The CEO woke up and, to the gathering’s collective astonishment, said he wanted to move quickly past the financial details of the business, in order to talk about less specific customer satisfaction initiatives.
BusinessWeek’s HP Profile has some interesting nuggets — including that Steve Jobs tried to convince HP’s Board to reinstate Mark Hurd, feeling HP’s wellbeing was “essential to a healthy Silicon Valley”
Redeye (at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK))
Vegas bound (and still loving TSA PreCheck) (at Terminal D (Delta Terminal))
Year end Ops lunch! (at Il Buco)
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