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@GSElevator Ousted?

tcr! · Feb 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm

lloyd blankfein looking skeptical

Is the @GSElevator Mystery Really Solved?

Last night, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times made waves by exposing the identity of @GSElevator, the anonymous Twitter scribe (and now, book author in the making) who purported to relay conversations from inside the elevators at Goldman Sachs. According to Sorkin, @GSElevator is really John Lefevre, a 34-year-old ex-bond trader who lives in Texas, and who has never worked at Goldman Sachs.

GS Elevator Gossip (GSElevator) on Twitter

The latest from GS Elevator Gossip (@GSElevator). Things heard in the Goldman Sachs elevators do not stay in the Goldman Sachs elevators. Email what you hear to elevatorgoldman@gmail.com. New York / London / Hong Kong

The tweets are PRICELESS.

98% of people making comments about Nelson Mandela on social media would fail a history quiz on Nelson Mandela.

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Feb 27th, 2014 at 9:39:06 pm

tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 9:39 pm

I don’t like talking in crowds.

BUT I DO LIKE TYPING IN ALL CAPS.

UPDATE with mathematical clarification:
Me + Another + ANYONE ELSE = CROWD

#random

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 28, 2014 at 12:23 pm

Around here we assume anyone typing in all-caps was working in AutoCAD when you interrupted them (engineering drawings are in all-caps). It's taken all the meaning out of the caps lock key. THE CAPS MEAN NOTHING TO ME.

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 28, 2014 at 4:02 pm

If only there were a bold key.

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 28, 2014 at 4:16 pm

How about a blink key? Netscape Navigator circa 1995, anyone?

They do say 1+1+1 is a crowd. I'm much more comfortable one-on-one. Actually, I'm much better in writing; but I think that's due to the typical introvert trait of preferring to think through your answer before saying it.

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 1, 2014 at 8:13 pm

Yes, I prefer to write, prefer that to much anything else. Writing is where the truth gets put on the table.

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FIGHTER SOCKS!!!

tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 5:53 pm

threadless figher socks

Fighter Socks | Threadless

These fun, funky socks with Threadless designs are brought to you by Sock It to Me. One Size Fits Most.

I need these and they’re only $5.95! More fun at Buried in Stuff T-Shirts | Threadless.

#fashion

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Mar 6, 2014 at 8:39 am

love the socks.

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 6, 2014 at 2:02 pm

Yep, they're bad azz 8-)

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Yahoo webcam imagery saved to GCHQ’s database

tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 1:18 pm

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

What’s happens in Yahoo, stays in Yahoo. :-)

I’m kidding of course.. This wasn’t Yahoo’s fault but we’ll all be better off as soon as accept the fact that whatever we do online, substantial or not, is up for grabs.

#privacynews #yahoo

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Tuesday - the most popular day here

tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 11:54 am

tuesday the most popular day here

Don’t know what’s up with Sunday. :-D

#tcr

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 27, 2014 at 2:01 pm

I do remember refreshing a lot on Tuesday… Are 200 of those hits from Canada?

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 2:45 pm

Good question.. That chart is the total unique counts since the site launched in November. I haven't written a report to count the particular of visits for a particular day. But I do like the idea.

And there's also this…

languages breakdown

…which will give you a linguistic sense of our visitors.

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 2:48 pm

DON'T JUDGE ME BASED ON THE TRAFFIC. THE SITE GETS NO PROMOTION. :-D

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 27, 2014 at 5:23 pm

You seem to be oddly popular in Canada. Just taking the two largest numbers there, since that's close to 100% of your traffic, based on population I'd expect 10% Canada, 90% US, plus you live in the US and therefore likely know more people there, so it should be more skewed toward US. I think my obsessive browser refreshing is messing with your stats. Or it's tism. Let's blame tism.

You're also far more widely read in France and Russia than I would have imagined. Well, assuming the language setting reflects the person's location. I'm assuming Americans aren't going to be using Canadian English, but perhaps you know a substantial number of Canada-US immigrants. More data required.

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 7:38 pm

Stats, especially ones that really try to define the visitor, are generally just best guesses. I do know that you and tism are in MT but often reported as being in PT.

timezones breakdown

More fun facts: 6 AM and 10 PM are the most popular hours and the 22nd is the most popular day of the month, followed closely by the 24th.

I would wager between you, tism, jimi and myself we make up the majority of the visitors with the odd Google search result straggler from Russian speaking Muscat thrown in for good measure.

One more data point definition: all stats are based on a combo of unique IP and unique host.

:)

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 28, 2014 at 10:54 am

I've been informed that I should have said tism instead of using real names in my last comment… Can you edit it?

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 28, 2014 at 10:59 am

Whoa… "SMTP Error"

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 28, 2014 at 11:13 am

Re: tism — 1984'ed!

Re: SMTP — ya, my host's email server has its eyes crossed the last few days. :-(

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 28, 2014 at 12:19 pm

Thanks!
I'm used to being 1984'd. My catchphrase at work is "we've always been at war with Oceania".

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Mar 6, 2014 at 8:41 am

i read this when it was fresh and was pleasantly amused at the Oceania comment. it' sounded too techy at the time for me to enter the phray.

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 6, 2014 at 2:08 pm

Basically I was just gabbing about the stats here on the site. I like to nerd out on data.

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tcr! tcr! · Mar 6, 2014 at 9:24 pm

In related news… I like looking at reports because they're understandable and don't talk back, unlike some people I work with.

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Feb 27th, 2014 at 8:12:05 am

tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 8:12 am

If you’re not a genius, don’t pretend to be. It makes you looker dumber than you really are.

tongue waggin in an old car

#protip

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A Couple Pink Kitchen Photos

tcr! · Feb 26, 2014 at 7:12 pm

So the kitchen got two coats of pink a couple weeks ago. Here’s my fav picture from the set I took.

pink kitchen shelves


This one’s not bad but the tiles aren’t finished.

pink kitchen stove


It changes the whole vibe though.. I’m totally digging it. 8)

#photos #homeimprovement

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Feb 27, 2014 at 12:52 am

nice job

tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 11:46 am

Thankies! It was a chaotic there for a bit but stolen and I managed to pull it off.

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Question regarding emails from the site

tcr! · Feb 26, 2014 at 10:47 am

Are you guys getting the site emails with the “New comment” subject line?

I ask because the site is telling me that it can’t send them. :-O

UPDATE: Never mind.. I just saw this from the my host.

critical email announcement

So at least I know it’s not the site itself. :)

#devhell #tcr

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tism tism · Feb 26, 2014 at 11:13 am

yuppers

Here's what GMail says:

tcrbang.com New comment: /a/2014/02/godzilla_2014 - tism left a comment but we just finished rebuilding Tokyo…Damn you humanity's scientific
6:50 am

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 26, 2014 at 11:37 am

Kewlz! 8-)

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Mar 6, 2014 at 8:46 am

i didn't get any emails that i recognized or remembered.

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Godzilla 2014

tcr! · Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09 am

Godzilla - Movie, Trailer, Photos, Synopsis

An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence

Wow.. I didn’t know they were doing yet another remake. Trailer doesn’t look too bad.

#movies #godzilla

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Feb 26, 2014 at 8:16 am

i'm going, rootin' for G. he's an OG.

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tism tism · Feb 26, 2014 at 8:50 am

but we just finished rebuilding Tokyo…Damn you humanity’s scientific arrogance!! Damn you!

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 7:58 pm

I bet the Tokyoians get real tired if this movie. :-D

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Happyface - Audio and Lyrics

tcr! · Feb 25, 2014 at 9:33 pm

My ex-wife, Kathy, was in my thoughts earlier tonight and then as I was running some evening errands, this song came up on my music’s random shuffle.

Kinda weird because this CD was hugely popular at the height of the chaos that was our marriage in 1996. Me — cooking nights in a restaurant, her — assistant managing days at the apartment complex we lived in. We barely saw each other.

Right before the divorce, I hadn’t talked to her in almost a week.

I have a hard time even listening to the Toadies, there’ll forever be an association burned in me between the two. Between her and crunchy Texas guitar. Graph theory anyone?


I said to jimi earlier..

Another pattern I’ve noticed — after the initial high of the relationship wore off, I’ve always went into panic mode, that she (whoever) didn’t love me as they once did, that the relationship was obviously terminal. And then I acted accordingly.

Hell Jim, Kathy only wanted to love me, have a house… And after we moved to Des Moines, I turned antisocial on her.

Um, yeah, there was no more happy face.


On with the show..

The Toadies were one of the few bands that I could’ve and didn’t see live, that I bonded with both the lyrics and the music. Maybe someday I’ll call Texas my home like the Toadies. :)

Happyface by The Toadies

I try to wish you away
I’ll do more than wishin’ someday

No no no more son of a bitch
No no no more wishin’
No no no more son of a bitch
No more happy face!

You and I have nothin’ more to say
We’ll do more than talkin’ someday

No no no more son of a bitch
No no no more talkin’
No no no more son of a bitch
No more happy face!

I sometimes think of the friends of that chapter of my life. There were good times… in the garage at midnight, me strumming acoustic with James and Wendy singing vocals. My black 1984 mustang (with t-tops) parked outside. Her asleep inside because she wouldn’t listen to “that shit.”

She’s on Facebook of course. Damn, she’s old. 😊

#confessional #musicvideos #thetoadies

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Feb 25, 2014 at 11:48 pm

i actually searched on found my first ex-wife on FB just about a week ago. i didn't look for the pics other than the one on her front page. it was odie from garfield.

i don't remember why i searched her. i have less than zero feelings/thoughts, hell, even memories of her.

i don't recognize myself from that time.

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Feb 26, 2014 at 12:03 am

there is another ex that i have diligently stalked and found very little hard info on. she's into the meth, and i was always into the —-, well, opposite.

i have no reason to lie. i would own it in a second if it were true. meth is the only drug i've never tried. never even wanted to. it's is the opposite of how i want to feel.

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · Feb 26, 2014 at 12:07 am

reverend?
there i go again on the above post.
i need to think safety first.
although i can and will pass a drug test anytime anyone wants, some people are unappreciative of the colorful history thesaintjamesversion.

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keamoose keamoose · Feb 26, 2014 at 7:45 pm

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one looking up their ex-spouse on Facebook. I think there's something alluring about the no-consequence stalking that Facebook enables.

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 7:45 pm

j: Nothing wrong with a little extra details now and then.

k: Nothing wrong with a little peek in the Facebook toilet now and again to see what people from the former lives are up to.

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tcr! tcr! · Feb 27, 2014 at 7:45 pm

In other news, sometimes I have the site ping twitter.com and with one sometime, this happened:

toadies twitter reply

Just like old times!

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