Posted 11:02 PM by Gene

And no doubt this hedge-fund manager, now famous all over the Web for his hail-and-farewell after having brilliantly bet against the subprime-mortgage meisters, has known more than a few would-be movie extruders in his day, "[t]he low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA...people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) [and] rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government." Yep, he would have known them. "I will let others try to amass nine, ten or eleven figure net worths. Meanwhile, their lives suck," he avows. "Appointments back to back, booked solid for the next three months, they look forward to their two week vacation in January during which they will likely be glued to their Blackberries or other such devices. What is the point? They will all be forgotten in fifty years anyway. Steve Balmer [SIC!!!!!], Steven Cohen, and Larry Ellison will all be forgotten. I do not understand the legacy thing. Nearly everyone will be forgotten. Give up on leaving your mark. Throw the Blackberry away and enjoy life."

But meantime guy, don't spend the rest of yours dreaming of pot. That's a different kind of burning.