Day 319: Work Lunch R[evol]ution

 

November 15th, 2011TODAY was MAGNIFICENT. I went to Vietnamese class where Frank and I presented our oral examination to the class, ultimately to make them laugh in the end. I then proceeded to several hours of work at EHS. It was the first time I ever brought lunch (besides a hotpocket), and microwaved it there. As you can see, I had some leftover pasta, some smuckers, and a bag of some delicious flaming hot cheetos. It was truly a work lunch r[evol]ution as my title suggests, and as pictured above is subsequently the kitchen of my workplace. My boss even saw me eating it and complimented me as he gave me some .vsd file to edit, which I graciously did. I went to Geisel to play on the computers for 20 minutes, and then went to the Communications building afterwards to video edit for 4 hours. I wouldn’t necessarily say its a fun process, but once you start it’s kind of hard to stop. I went home to make some delicious fried rice (enough for lunch for tomorrow too!). Michelle and Henry came over, we watched an amazing Glee episode before I ultimately chillaxed on the computer for the rest of the night.

On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger. The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes on streams of paper tape (the same paper tape later used in ticker-tape parades). The ticker, which caught on quickly with investors, got its name from the sound its type wheel made. TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

The Iowa caucuses are just seven weeks away, but Republican voters in the nation’s first presidential nominating state seem as torn as ever over the GOP field. A new Bloomberg poll of likely caucus participants shows a four-way tie in Iowa, with Rep. Ron Paul joining Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in the top tier of candidates. Underscoring the uncertainty in the race, 60 percent of respondents said they could be persuaded to back someone other than their first choice for the nomination. RON PAUL WILL WIN IOWA AND SHOCK AND EXPOSE THE MEDIA/ESTABLISHMENT FOR WHAT THEY ARE.

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