Wooshing sounds

Trollwatch: Michael Idov has a fine whine about why you should never run a coffee shop. It ends with the line "The marriage [between the writer and his co-owner wife] appears to have been saved by a well-timed bankruptcy".

He also makes some interesting noises about markups on coffee and the economics of a coffee shop ("Rent should take up no more than 25 percent of your revenue, another 25 percent should go toward payroll, and 35 percent should go toward the product. The remaining 15 percent is what you take home.")

Enough surfing - now to get back to blogging about what's important, namely me.

I'm surfing too much. I gave up hope of getting something to meet the December 31 Speech Prosody deadline as a first author - and I may have given up too early. Oh well, it's sure too late now.

FL did send me a paper to read (I'd helped write some code for it) where I'm second author (FL is nice) - after 10 hours of being awake, I hadnt read it, and sent off an email saying I'd comment in another 90 minutes. Then I began reading it... and sending off comments as I read the four-page paper... and send off the sixth and final set of comments just now. And guess what! Amazingly enough, exactly 90 minutes had passed! Or maybe between 90 and 105 minutes; Google Mail said it was 90 minutes then, and now says it was 2 hours. I'm not sure how it rounds things off... all I can say now is that was under 109 minutes. With my penchant for tardiness and deadline underestimation, that's pretty good.