BEg2 chapter 5 - things I didn’t catch 1st time

[Michael Bailey]

“Zorba the Geek” (chuckle)


 Driscoll Padgett is a freelance Web-page designer, “making it up as I go
along, just like everybody else,” also temping as a code writer, for $30 an
hour—she’s fast and conscientious, and the word has got around, so she’s
more or less steadily in demand,
though now and then there’s a gap in the rent cycle where she’s had to
resort to the Winnie list, or index cards stuck up next to dumpsters, and
so forth. Loft parties sometimes, though that’s usually for the cheap
drinks.

- The Winnie List? What is (or was) that?


Prevalence of dickheads in dotcom biz / prevalence of the word “dickheads”
in this part of the text.

- William Gibson lady character had a term, “Lombard”: lots of money but a
real dickhead
- Stephen Colbert showed a pic of Bezos, saying he’s the definition of “it
up” (as in getting)


Stochastic crossover apparently something that happens in foreign exchange
trading:

https://www1.oanda.com/forex-trading/learn/trading-tools-strategies/stochastic


What not knowing about stochastic crossovers but having a “drive to thrive”
says about the supposed victors in the eternal Jock versus Nerd conflict is
that they are flying by the seats of their pants & at some point they
should realize that they do need to pull the nerds into the mix…

Horst coming back to Maxine is a good step in this direction.