Tag: South Pole

Tweeting my pancreas

Questions

Q1. If you had to give your pancreas a twitter handle, what would it be? (keep it clean)

A1. iquitinsulin

Q2. If you had to create a twitter bio for your pancreas what would it say?

A. On sabbatical at the South Pole.

Q3. What kind of spam would your pancreas receive?

A3. Get free supplies here: http://sp.am/sc4m

Q4. What question would you ask your pancreas if it was on twitter?

A4. Did you produce anything today?

Q5. What would your pancreas tweet about?

A5. Looking forward to the day off. Liver is picking up the slack.

Q6. What would be your pancreas’ favorite hashtag?

A4. #FAIL

Q7. Would your pancreas tweet during its honeymoon phase?

A7. Insulin production is way down but I've got some reserves.

Q8. Would you include your pancreas in your follow Friday list?

A8. No

Via [DSMA](http://diabetessocmed.com/2011/tweeting-my-pancreas/)

Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.

Thiel isn’t totally alone in the first part of his education bubble assertion. It used to be a given that a college education was always worth the investment– even if you had to take out student loans to get one. But over the last year, as unemployment hovers around double digits, the cost of universities soars and kids graduate and move back home with their parents, the once-heretical question of whether education is worth the exorbitant price has started to be re-examined even by the most hard-core members of American intelligentsia. via Michael Immordino

I often worry about how I'm going to help my kids pay for college and still save for retirement. My wife and I joke that we might have to retire somewhere cheap, like the South Pole. It took us years to pay off our student loans. It might take our kids a lifetime to pay off theirs. I'm planning to steer them in the direction of entrepreneurship.