To choose the life of a day-trader is like choosing to be a professional Russian roulette player. Even if you are lucky and win every day, you are still balancing those wins against the chilling thought of that future bullet. Even if the downside risks of day-trading aren’t quite as high as Russian roulette, there [...]
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The Year of Living Statistically
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WFW’s Summertime Musical Comedy Concert Post
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don’t Get That College Degree!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Recently, my wife and I have been talking about how going to college isn’t an appropriate goal for everyone. The college track has become too expensive and may provide too little in return for some students. There’s really no good reason why high school students “should” go to college. Frankly, the universal portrayal of the [...]
Backseat with the Angels
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a outrageous video of a backseat ride in a F-18 Hornet Blue Angel. I’ve always wondered what this perspective would be like. Enjoy.
Swine Flew
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Toilet Funeral Marketing
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ingenuity is key to marketing success. There are a lot of ways to market products. The problem is that 90% of them are so boring that they can’t compete with all the other marketing noise that we see and hear every day. If you don’t consciously realize it you can probably guess that you’ve already [...]
Cats do not sleep
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My wife and I have 3 cats. We had an unproven suspicion that they are more restless under the cover of darkness than they would have us believe . We’ve even discussed setting up a night-vision time-lapse camera to film their suspected shenanigans while we slept . But now, as this film proves as clearly [...]
The Long View of Aging
Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re interested in longevity for yourself, or if you are interested in the future of longevity as a field of study, you should watch this video of Aubrey de Grey. He discusses the intriguing concept of Longevity Escape Velocity. LEV is the idea that continued advances in life extension therapies have already reached a [...]
Sleeping
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always on the lookout for simple strategies in the medical news that have been shown to increase my likelihood of living a long an healthy life.
So far my list of things to do include:
1. Drink alcohol a little.
2. Take vitamin D if you spend your days under a roof.
3. Use olive oil
4. Eat some [...]
Secret Bargain Basement Post
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There aren’t too many people that know this about me, but I am completely fascinated by the strategies behind the retail environment. Its similarities to biological systems of attraction that are prevalent in nature give the topic some real depth that make it very interesting think about. Store layouts, sale incentives, conscious and unconscious attractors, [...]
