February 2012
2 posts
One of my mentors passes away
I have a small handful of mentors. I just learned that one of my mentors from Boston, Lowell Richards, suddenly passed away. He had a big impact on me. I worked at the Port of Boston for a summer and a semester, focused on container port operations, airport operations, and other regional infrastructure projects. It was part technical, part economic, and of course, part political. Rather than talk...
HSIOW, by George Carlin
This is one of my favorite insights by Carlin, mocking TGI Fridays restaurants:
“TGI Fridays, if I had a place like that, you know what I’d call it? HSIOW… Holy Shit, It’s Only Wednesday. I think people would drink a lot more liquor if they thought it was Wednesday all the time.”