-- Richard Feynman (11 May 1918 - 15 February 1988), Nobel-prize winning American physicist and writer
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Very Beginning
-- Richard Feynman (11 May 1918 - 15 February 1988), Nobel-prize winning American physicist and writer
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
New Year
Monday, December 29, 2008
How Different
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Kindness
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Greatest Gift
Monday, December 15, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Permanently Personal
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Too Busy
-- Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Sincerely
We are writing to let you know that computer tapes containing some of your personal information were lost while being transported to an off-site storage facility by our archive services vendor. While we have no reason to believe that this information has been accessed or used inappropriately, we deeply regret that this incident occurred and we wanted to explain the precautionary steps we have taken to help protect you. ...
Protecting the confidentiality of this information - and all of our clients' information - has long been a top priority at The Bank of New York Mellon. However, in late February 2008, our archive services vendor notified us that they could not account for one of several boxes of data backup tapes being transported to an off-site storage facility. The missing tapes held certain personal information, such as your name, address, Social Security number and/or shareowner account information. ...
Sincerely, Investor Care Response Team
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Valuable Thing
-- Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, in wiretaps discussing the open senate seat of Barack Obama, according to a press release from US Attorney Peter Fitzgerald announcing Blagojevich's arrest, 9 December 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Madman
-- Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993), economist, educator, peace activist, and poet
Friday, December 05, 2008
Creative Art Is Magic
-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish-born English novelist
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Art
-- Frank Zappa (21 December 1940 - 4 December 1993), American composer, guitarist, record producer, and film director
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Lest We Mock
Set his guards about us, as in Freedom's name.
He shall peep and mutter, and night shall bring
Watchers 'neath our window, lest we mock the King.
-- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), author, Nobel laureate
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Recession
Monday, December 01, 2008
More Terrifying
Friday, November 21, 2008
Greatest Of Virtues
Thursday, November 20, 2008
GM
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Promises
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Keys To The Kingdom
-- Army Sgt. Alex J. Plitsas, on conditions in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, New York Times, 22 April 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Stand Up
-- Michael O'Hanlon, specialist in Iraq at the Brookings Institution, on the Iraqi cabinet's approval of a security agreement calling for a full withdrawal of American forces by the end of 2011, New York Times, 17 November 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Well-Laid Plan
-- Tim Cavanaugh, American libertarian writer and editor, Reason Online, May 2003
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Grieving
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Cure Every Ill
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Greed
-- Joseph Sobran (1946-). American journalist and writer
Monday, November 10, 2008
Graffito
Rosa had to sit so Martin could walk,
Martin had to walk so Barack could run,
Barack had to run so our children can fly.
-- Scott Paul, in The Washington Note blog
Friday, November 07, 2008
RIP Studs Terkel
Thursday, November 06, 2008
RIP Michael Crichton
-- Dr. John Michael Crichton (23 October 1942 - 4 November 2008), American author, film & TV producer, "Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Obama Victorious
-- President-elect Barack Obama, in his victory speech, 4 November 2008
Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.
-- Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, concession speech, 4 November 2008
No matter how they cast their ballot, all Americans can be proud of the history that was made yesterday,
-- Out-going president George W. Bush, regarding Obama's victory, 5 November 2008
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In Piatt County, IL where I live, McCain won with 4988 votes (55%) to Obama's 3856 votes (43%).
In Champaign County, IL where I work, Obama won with 48,351 votes (58%) to McCain's 33,748 votes (40%).
Of the 8 times that I have voted in a presidential election, this marks just the second time that the candidate I voted for has won. No wonder I'm a cynic about national politics.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
Don't Have To Think
Thursday, October 30, 2008
People Might Remember
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Politician Vs. Statesman
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Guide Your Luck
Monday, October 27, 2008
Informed Voters
Friday, October 24, 2008
Talk Sense
-- Adlai Stevenson, acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, 26 July 1952
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Victory, Not Truth
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Distorted
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Lahde Duh
I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.
On the issue of the U.S. Government, I would like to point out the obvious flaws, whereby legislation was repeatedly brought forth to Congress over the past eight years, which would have reined in the predatory lending practices of now mostly defunct institutions. These institutions regularly filled the coffers of both parties in return for voting down all of this legislation designed to protect the common citizen. This is an outrage, yet no one seems to know or care about it.
With that I say goodbye and good luck.
All the best,
Andrew Lahde
-- Andrew Lahde of Lahde Capital Management, farewell letter (abridged) on his retirement (age ~38) after his fund earned 866% return in 2007 betting on the collapse of the subprime mortgage industry, Financial Times, 17 October 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Orthodoxy
-- Colin L. Powell, discussing Senator John McCain, and endorsing Senator Barack Obama, New York Times, 20 October 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
In Defense Of Cheating
-- Donald A. Norman, Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University, Ubiquity, Volume 6, Issue 11, 29 September 2008
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i11_norman.html
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Duly Rise
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Cinderella At The Ball
-- Warren Edward Buffett (30 August 1930-), American investor, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway 2000 Chairman's Letter
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Plenty There
Monday, October 13, 2008
Lack
-- Tom Hanks
Friday, October 10, 2008
Market Boom
U.S. stock market paper losses totaled $872 billion Thursday and the value of shares overall has tumbled a stunning $8.33 trillion since last year's high. That's based on preliminary figures measured by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which tracks 5,000 U.S.-based companies' stocks and represents almost all stocks traded in America.
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From Yahoo News
... and then there's today ....
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Artificial Boom
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Austrian economist
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Knife Fight
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