I was repulsed by this menu item at a restaurant we passed by in Budapest last year:
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Quote Of The Day: Risk
Although risk-taking has negative aspects and can even prove fatal, it is a positive force as well. Without risky experiences, humanity would stagnate; there would be little impetus for discovery. Risk-taking was obviously adaptive in earlier hominids. The trait persists—but there is little left to explore. What is more, work is anything but exciting for … Continue reading »
Programming Notes
When The Velvet Rocket occasionally goes dark for stretches of time, it is not because our staff are on strike or because we are being lazy. No, it is because we are out investigating and developing new content for your viewing pleasure. That shall be the situation for the next couple of weeks as we … Continue reading »
The Best Pickup Line?
Written: Winter 2012, New York Occurred: Summer 2001, London Over the summer of 2001 I worked as an intern at an American investment bank in London. After work, I would frequently join my co-workers in a pub down the street that we had locked down. One evening while hanging out with my usual group, … Continue reading »
Quote Of The Day: Executive Outcomes
I’ve mentioned Executive Outcomes before… Below is an interesting description of the capabilities of Executive Outcomes at their peak: Executive Outcomes is capable of rapidly deploying a battalion-strength force almost anywhere in the world with impressive asset support. EO owns a slew of armored fighting vehicles: two Boeing 727s and a C-47, attack aircraft such … Continue reading »
Quote Of The Day: Size Matters
A small number of countries possess the majority of the world’s economic power and population. Just eight nations (United States, China, Japan, Germany, France, India, Britain and Russia) possess two-thirds of the world’s economic activity, 51 percent of the population and 31 percent of the real estate. This small group of nations, out of some … Continue reading »
St. John Cemetery In Queens
My mother is into genealogy and when she mentioned that a number of our relatives were buried in a cemetery not exceedingly far from The Velvet Rocket’s New York office, I Googled the cemetery to learn more about it. The name of the cemetery is St. John and despite being owned by the Roman Catholic … Continue reading »
