Wednesday, July 14, 2010

3022 Wandering the net

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

"Those who can laugh without cause have either
found the true meaning of happiness
or have gone stark raving mad."
-- Norm Papernick --

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Well, Vic called at 5:30ish this evening to say he wouldn't be here to work on the van this evening or tomorrow. Friday for sure. Ok.

He and the builder are racing. What's that race called where whoever comes in last wins?

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Piper told me at lunch yesterday to get ready to sell the second third of stock today or tomorrow, but not until he calls and tells me to. We're selling stock to buy the new house 1/3 at a time. I sold the first third a few weeks ago.

Looking at graphs today was shocking. The market had been climbing from that long drop, right up until late April, and then almost the day I signed the contract, everything dropped precipitously. It's just now starting to rise again, so I figured out which stocks are back to where they had been, and marked them for selling.

Naturally, those are exactly the ones all the analysts say are "hold" or "buy". That's painful.

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If you've never heard of the TED Talks (TED = Technology, Education, Design), you're missing something. BMW sent me some CDs with 16 of them, and I've been listening to and enjoying them in the car. You can browse the offerings at http://www.ted.com/talks/browse. They are each about 20 minutes long. Online, they are videos, but it's not necessary to watch them (in fact, that's a little distracting), you can just listen to them. I'm going to download the audio to CD to add to the car collection. They're free for personal use, so there's no copyright issue.

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Kulula is a South-African airline with a sense of humor. This, https://www.kulula.com/info/aircraft-pictures-kulula-fleet-photo-gallery.aspx, is a real paint job on one of their planes, the "Flying 101" design, which humorously labels all the parts of the plane.

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Here, http://www.truth-out.org/the-disappearing-intellectual-age-economic-darwinism61287, is an essay entitled "The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism". It's slightly long (but 95% of the length is comments, so don't be discouraged by the indicator over there on the far right of your browser) and rather dense, but it expresses exactly what's been bugging me more and more over the past 10 years. It scares me.
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