Crazy month continues. Just some Linkes for now:
Don’t worry about the Joneses they won’t care if you go under
Peter Schiff blog
CLEWI – this is rich. no pun intended.
8 signs its time to change jobs
GAO article comments govexec | WaPo | Gazette
MIT student arrest at Logan - another take
Gold? Why not??
September has been a crazy month. Just posting linkes for now:
Madison Blog: Soglin Blog
Lotta money part II, III, IV, or XX
Police Detail in Madison AKA Madtowne
Cluster fuck nation?
Flikr and advertisement rights
September has been a crazy month. Just posting linkes for now:
Personality types – 5 (not meyer’s brigg)
War as theater entertainment
Anti-Kickball movement in the District
Govexec article and comments
Madison, WI 40 years later
Euro at $1.40 following the Fed rate cut
Busy month/week/days, just a few observations and and some linkes for now:
The DOW shot up 250+ today on news of the federal reserve rate being cut from 5.25% to 4.75% – good news for stockholders and people with a lot of debt……bad news for everyone in long run in terms of inflation and the overall strength of the dollar (The Euro is already at an all time high against the dollar) There is also talk about the overall strength of the economy being in bad shape, and there is a recession looming around the corner. It might prove to be a temporary fix and ignoring a much much larger problem.
Meanwhile just today the soda machine at work just went from $1.25 to $1.35 coincidence?
Linkes for 9/18/2007:
Obama Tax plan iteresting ideas
Gold at $718/ounce and climbing
Glen Grant Threads and Obake stories starbulletin | wiki | hawaiistories
Finished up my Corporations exam tonight, and I’m officially done for the summer now. As usual, I’m not sure how to gauge how I did. If its anything like how I did this past year, then I’ll be pretty happy with the results whenever they come in. I have to say that this is one of those classes that I think I got a lot out of regardless of how it turns out on paper. In all honesty I never thought I would find a class on corporate law as interesting as I did, I think part of it was the professor, but also the content of the course kept me pretty engaged in the material all these hot summer nights.
On the flip side it was pretty hanging tough through the last couple months or so, it was really like my spring semester didn’t end and carried on through the summer. looking back I realize that I have gone through the equivalent of 1 and 3/4 of law school, which would make me unofficially a 2.75 L going into the fall semester. not too bad considering this is my third year of night school, at this rate I may have the option of getting out a semester early, finishing 3.5 years total while working full time. It was really non stop, going for about 2 and a half years, I’m surprised I haven’t lost my mind just yet.
I’d like to think that I may finally be getting a real hang of things, at least the surprises and volume of material doesn’t seem as crazy, I’m able to read things quickly and get to the bottom line pretty quickly. All skills that might come in handy one day for sure. One thing for sure, It’ll be nice not having to rush out to catch a train at everyday during rush hour to head up to class, or lugging my laptop and textbooks everywhere I go. I’ll enjoy it for about a month before the next semester starts up again.
Earthbox update, I set up a flickr account to post some of the pictures. The humidity and heat are doing the plants well, the goya is now climbing up the net mesh and tomato plant stalk. I ended up saving some seeds from the chinese bitter mellon in place of the cilantro. we’ll see if that one sprouts as easily as the okinawan goya.
Linkes 7/5/07 – 7/16/07 (Law school notes edition)
Greatest boom ever, or just another bubble?
7 Sacred Pools of Oheo on Maui.
Web Back Machine – blogs and websites engraved in e-stone.
$12B a month. nuff said.
Talk about lowering the security clearance standards.