The key to success: date a banker

I posted a few days ago about the wonderful DABA girls who despite being “over leveraged with Saks and I’m not talking about Goldman” are making quite the splash on the “interwebz”. And, now they’ve taken it to the next level. It turns out everyone’s favorite ladies who date bankers have landed a book deal.

As Fashionista reports (HT: Megan McArdle):

This morning, ex-Lucky Beauty writer Dawn Spinner came out as a DABA in the New York Times’ profile of Dating A Banker Anonymous, a blog for women having a rough time with their men due to the tanking economy.

Well now we hear Dawn and her fellow DABA’s, Laney Crowell, a beauty editor at StyleCaster and lawyer Megan Petrus are getting a book deal.

What will the book be about? How to stay beautiful without your boyfriend’s black Amex? Where to shop when you have to spend your own money?

I have no idea. The real question I have is whether or not the DABA girls will have their book out before or after my two favorite “Fob” ladies get their shot at the published spotlight.

Times are changing

I’m a bit late to this story, but it’s about time Presidential portraits were brought into the 21st Century.

Mr. Obama goes to Washington – and gets the first presidential portrait taken with a digital camera (and I’m sure along the way he downloaded a H264 movie on his laptop, immediately converted it to flash video using his graphics card, uploaded it over a prototype LTE network to YouTube, and Twittered about it)

And what camera took this sharp photo? Thanks to the photo’s EXIF data, we know (according to Engadget) it was a 21.1 mega-pixel Canon EOS 5D Mark II taken with no flash, using a 105mm lens stopped to f/10 at a 1/125 exposure with an ISO of 100.