Monthly Archives: March 2009
Emotions & Markets: Waiting for my Entry Point
Time to cowboy-up, get really steely-eyed, and make some good investment decisions. Like Baron Rothschild, I think it was, said “Buy while there’s blood in the streets” and I’m smelling opportunity close at hand. No money on the table yet, … Continue reading
Coping: Shutting Down the Time Machine – Briefly
It’s been my pleasure to have access to the ‘rickety time machine’ up at www.halfpasthuman.com, but every once in a while, Cliff (and I) need to take some time to catch up on personal agenda items. So, the next report … Continue reading
What Next at Zil… I mean GM?
What is “Zil” you’re wondering through the Monday morning fog? Hit Wikipedia and you find: “Zavod imeni Likhacheva More commonly called ZIL (or ZiL, Russian: ????? ????? ???????? (???) — Likhachev Factory, literally “Factory named after Likhachev”) is a major … Continue reading
Coping: What Goes Around, In Your Ear
Something the time monks up at HalfPastHuman run into with some frequency is the ‘circular nature’ of time. In science fiction, the notion was for many years that time was a line and it started way back down the timeline … Continue reading
Mapping the Road Ahead
It’s a fine thing to do at the end of an incredibly busy week: sit down with a cuppa joe, a super-fast internet pipe, and review not only what happened over the past week, but where things seem to be … Continue reading
One World Currency
So here’s the libretto this morning: We’ve got some US officials (Tim Geithner, just to name names here) who are telling CONgress that the US is not in favor of a one-world currency to replace the present US Dollar position … Continue reading
Coping: Curious Timing
Ah, here’s one: Last Friday the movie “Knowing” which is about how the end of life on earth from a solar flare event, and how it was forecast 50-years in advance, came out. And then early this week comes this … Continue reading
The Police State Migration Path?
Language is powerful stuff. Most folks don’t even think about how imagery bends feelings around and so when a name-change comes down the pike, it is given little notice. Maybe something in passing, but not a lot of discussion on … Continue reading
Coping: Pre-loading and Other PIM Concepts
You might want to spend some time working on PIM – personal information management. Very few people are conscious enough of their daily computer use to develop a ‘personal information management strategy’, but since I was discussing the concept of … Continue reading
Internal Chatter / Snake Eats Tail Day
I’ve always found that I do my best trades when I get sufficient information and the constantly back-and-forth between the ears quiets down as a moment of clarity takes over and a single voice says “Yes, I think this is … Continue reading