Monthly Archives: February 2011
Just The Blue
The trading floor was the epicenter of the surging, noisy shrine to power and commerce that was Enron Corporation. It was my favorite place to be, right in the heart of it. In the nexus. Times Square. Ground Zero. Right … Continue reading
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Enron Play Gets Second Chance In Chicago
It appears that Lucy Prebble’s Enron will get a second chance at success in Chicago. Reports indicate that the show will appear on January 2012 at the Timeline Theatre. I’ve looked up the show times, and was unable to buy … Continue reading
Jeff Skilling Plays Paintball
This is from John Bloomer’s FBI Form 302. As I was reading, it just struck me as absurdly funny and horrible at the same time. So random. I have trouble imagining Jeff Skilling playing paintball for some reason. Ken Rice? … Continue reading
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Enron Broadband Services Org Charts: How John Bloomer Fit In
September 1999 org map Feb 2000 org chart You’ll notice that in September, Rex had all technology under him and Berberian and Palmer were under him. Then when Bloomer came in, he was put in the SWAT team which is … Continue reading
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John Bloomer Hates Rex
John Bloomer was one of Bill Collins’ email buddies (and Sherron Watkins! Just wait until I post those!) and he and Collins would conspire like Roman senators about how to get rid of Rex Shelby. They were constantly trying to … Continue reading
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Enron: Ten Years Later Presented By David Pope
David Pope is scheduled to give a presentation about Enron on March 1. Enron 10 Years Later: An Insider’s Perspective FEATURED SPEAKER: David Pope, President & CEO Niska Gas Storage Management LLC I’m torn about this. David Pope is a … Continue reading
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Moronic Journalist Makes Up Crap About Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay
Another day, another idiot. This time, it is one shilling a book called “Willful Blindness” and it’s described thusly: In “Willful Blindness” journalist and businesswoman Margaret Heffernan asks, “Why, as individuals, companies and countries, do we so regularly look at … Continue reading
What If EBS Had Survived?
What If EBS had not been pulled down by the Enron bankruptcy? There would have been a big clash between the bandwidth traders who thought that was the future and the apps over the Net group who believed that was … Continue reading
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Enron As Pseudoscience, Part Two
In response to this post, I got an email from an Enron exec. The subject line is “Email pattern red alert!” I can tell by the changing patterns of our email traffic that you are nearing bankruptcy! LOL! I wrote … Continue reading
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Ally McBeal and Enron
I was living in DC when Ally McBeal ended. It was May of 2002 – a weird time. The entire east coast was experiencing a kind of collective Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and ever so often a news segment about … Continue reading
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The Enron Emails As Pseudoscience
It seems to make some intuitive sense, that scientists could look at the frequency, contacts, and content of emails sent through an organization and come up with a formula, a pattern, the hidden gem in all of it that would … Continue reading
Why
Enron was onto something when its advertising executives came up with the slogan “Ask Why”. Why is confrontational, it doesn’t let you off the hook. It is a question that goes directly to your ethical, moral center and demands explanations. … Continue reading
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Benton Campbell Joins Latham & Watkins
Former ETF prosecutor Ben Campbell has joined Latham & Watkins, the revolving door firm where his compatriots, the indiscriminate blowjob purveyor Kathy Ruemmler and premature ejaculator Sean Berkowitz have worked (Sean Berkowitz is still collecting paychecks from the firm while … Continue reading
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Today In Enron History
February 14, 2006, Ken Rice, CEO of Enron Broadband Services, testified against Jeff Skilling. Here is his testimony: Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 – Part 1 Feb 16 – Part 2 It is curious that the premature ejaculator Sean … Continue reading
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Torture and Plea Deals
The discussion about Skilling and KSM reminded me of a point I meant to expound on from the article about Forbes using the Nigerian Barge name in vain in which I wrote: The same people who say that torture is … Continue reading
