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‘Very pretty… nice face/body… stood me up’: Investment banker kept SPREADSHEET to keep track of his online dates (but was caught out when he sent it to one of them)

A male member of Match.com has used a spreadsheet to make sure he was able to distinguish between each of the eight women he was dating.

David Merkur, a 28-year-old investment banker from New York, used the Microsoft Excel tool to record details of each of the women’s characteristics as well as progress reports on how his dates with them went.

Merkur told Jezebel.com he emailed the spreadsheet to Arielle, a woman he had dated, [...]

We’ve got to do something about the Fed: the Fed is absolutely unconstitutional and creates more problems than it solves, even if it is well intentioned.

by Ashvin Pandurangi, Simple Planet

The Fed, by it’s own admission, is an independent entity within the government “having both public purposes, and private aspects”. By “private aspects”, they mean the entire operation is wholly-owned by private member banks, who are paid dividends of 6% each year on their stock. Furthermore, the Fed’s decisions “do not have to be ratified by [...]