I started making my stock log public at lamdar.com. It’s pretty much just my total market thoughts and some stocks I look at. I’ve been good in the past for logging what stocks I like and why, but not so much about stocks I look at but don’t like, so hopefully I’ll be able to keep that record here. Don’t expect it to be very verbose though so don’t go making any trades based on something you see there.
How do you protect speed cameras from getting vandalized? Easy, you put security cameras on them to watch for the vandals. Hmm… so what do you do when the vandals start knocking those cameras over before they vandalize the speed cameras? I guess you’ll need a security camera to monitor the security camera too. Ahhh, what happens when they start hitting the security camera that’s monitoring the security camera???
In what is probably an attempt by the Republican party at boosting the images of George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a new candidate for the Wisconsin secretary of state lets you see how much worse it could be. I mean, would you rather have a 65 year old groupie that writes things like, “Here he was, in the flesh! Oh! My God! He was soooo CUTE!” over our current leaders? Granted, she was a bit younger when she wrote that… a young and spry 63. Of course all those red states could always switch to blue, but we all know that’s not happening anytime soon.
The British Fertility Society is recommending that very obese women (with a BMI > 36) should be denied fertility treatment. For those that don’t know, to get a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 36, a girl that’s 5′4″ would have to tip the scales at 210. Girls that have a BMI over 29 would be forced to “address their weight” before they could get treatment. In the Ali G movie, he makes a law to only allow the hot girls into the country, but this would be nipping the problem at the source. Now if only they could devise some scientific ugly index so that the ugly skinny girls could be weeded out too.
A little while ago, out of curiosity, I signed up for those free promo subscriptions to a few investment advisor magazines. I figured any new source of investing knowledge would be useful, and who should know more about it than investment advisors. Much to my chagrin, the magazines contained almost no information on investing though, and only information on how to market your services, retain clients, and make money off those clients. Think about that for a second…
Pacifist monks hold peace protest. Other monks ruin protest. Pacifist monks throw down on other monks. Pacifism rules!
I’m all about setting goals, but this is ridiculous. How do quotas for adding people to the watch list help? The worst thing is that every false addition to the list deteriorates the ability to find real terrorists with it. It’s kind of like listening to a fanboy talk about the latest (Apple|AMD|Trojans|X-Men) stuff. You know there might be one or two good points in there, but you just can’t sift through all the biased garbage to recognize them.
If you’re buying a house right now because you need a place to live and like the benefits that go along with owning your home, that’s a good thing as long as you’re able to make whatever the monthly payments are. If you want to buy a house because it’s a great investment and you’ve heard people quote the fact that real estate has never gone down, you are quite uninformed. While it’s true that real estate hasn’t gone down across the nation, locally many cities have seen declines. I’ve been hearing many stories about real estate advice that people have been getting, and I find quite a lot of it is very irresponsible. Here’s a page that chronicles real estate articles from the NY Times about the market in New Jersey through the 80’s and 90’s. Note that the main decline was over several years so those hoping for a quick pop will likely be disappointed. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Is this really all it takes to keep people honest? Sadly it contradicts any previous experiments that sought to show that altruism in humans is innate. Why did I spend so much money on a Clifford alarm then? Maybe all I had to do was hang some eyes on my rearview mirror.
How are we supposed to have fun late at night if this phone blocks our friends from drunk dialing? It says it can save dignity, but I say it’s just taking away a source of drunken entertainment.
Microsoft is always quick to point out that they eat their own dog food, so I guess this means they don’t even consider their search to be a usable product. The worse thing is that the numbers say Google is about 50% of the search market now, but if you look at searches originating from inside the MS domain that number shoots up to 66%.
“Instead of quelling riotous crowds with tear gas or rubber bullets, peacekeepers may soon be sliming them. A portable device worn like a Ghostbuster backpack allows the wearer to cover the ground in goo so slippery it’s almost impossible for a person to maintain their footing.” Darn, they already took what I was going to say about it so now I’m left without a witty comment. They mention that there are some situations where it might not work, but I’m wondering in what situations it actually will help? If there’s a rioutous crowd and you make the front people fall in the slime, won’t they just get trampled and turned into human bridges over the slime? I guess if you’re attacking a guy named Vigo and it’s positively charged slime though, it would help…
I dug real deep to find an article that I still reference all the time even though it’s pretty old. It’s the story of an auto company with mounting debts that threatened to close them down. Leave it to those brilliant union leaders to figure out a way for the company to continue paying its employees without selling any cars. I’m just wondering why you would continue working for the auto company when you could just sell your own goods and pocket the full $50.
Why bother getting poorly translated tattoos in languages you don’t know? Rather than having the Chinese symbol for “gas” on your arm that only a few people can laugh at, you might as well be clear like Marcus Camby with his tattoo that says “Mr. Camby” in English so that everyone can laugh at the stupid tattoo joke. Or maybe he was just tired of the lack of respect that he was getting, in which case his next tattoo will probably be something like, “Yes, sir.”
I shouldn’t really make fun of this since my mom likes Barry Manilow, but then again, that’s probably the reason it works.