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

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Winnie

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 3:15 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “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?
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>
> 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:
>
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> 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.
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