A colleague and I chatted about a fancy restaurant today, remarking on how it seats very few people but charges a relatively high price for meals. Could it survive? We ran the numbers out loud - estimating how much it probably makes each night, and what its likely expenses are. Didn't even break...

It's too late for me to edit this down, so here's your summary for the tl;dr crowd: accounting internships are awesome because you actually get paid. Journalism internships are tough to survive because they're typcially unpaid. There's some gender politics mixed in here, so read on if...

Remember last year's garbage strike? It's a distant, smelly memory. Here's a great little round-up discussing the stink, or lack thereof, at the collective public dumping grounds . There's always an alternative to the city union's approach, though it's not always necessarily better...

BBM station domination campaign at the TTC's Yonge-Bloor subway station Having alluded to Eurocents , I managed to trip over an interesting little article that came out two years ago and yet is still oddly relevant: a scientists decided to poke the cell phone industry with a sharp pointy stick and...

I've finally added a link to the ACS forums, but given that it took me over the past three years to do that, I won't be hurt if you don't post there. But if you, great. In the meantime, I'm seeing new forums popping up. Big 4 Bound was tired of relying on Red Flag Deals and just set one...

Too many CAs? Isn't that like saying "oh no, that's too many roast potatoes?" Absolute madness, clearly. Another interesting point I caught in the interview with Anonymous Partner discussed yesterday , was the claim that we're heading towards a glut of CAs, which seems to contradict...

One of my good friends once asked me for my full mailing address. Soon, I found myself receiving a gift in the mail - The Great Crash, 1929 . Ah yes, the economic crash. That wasn't too long ago, really, and watching the continuing implosion of the markets, it's fascinating - if not absolutely...

So. Will you ever get to enjoy job security? There's only one pair of answers that can adequately address that sort of question: "...short answer: "Yes" with an "If," long answer: "No" -- with a "But."" - Rev Lovejoy, 4F07 I write that, inspired by...

Just yesterday I wrote about an example of extreme price discrimination . As cool as it was, I didn't actually spend money because as good as Josh is, I'm not a big fan or anything. I just thought the story was cool. Last November, however, I wrote about the new album coming out for a band I...

Price discrimination is the economic concept where you charge some people more if they value your product more than others. Charging more for hardcover books which come out first versus softcover books that get released down the road is one example. The high initial prices of computer games followed...