The ‘stock-off’ between my brother-in-law and I begins. End-Of-Us-Dominance Portfolio Stock — Price — Shares — Value Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) PBR22.0711.32759$250 PetroChina Company Limited (ADR) PTR84.192.969474$250 Sasol Limited (ADR) SSL28.58.77193$250 Terra Industries Inc.TRA14.8916.78979$250 Agrium Inc. (USA)AGU31.048.054124$250 Silver Wheaton Corp. (USA)SLW6.3339.49447$250 Goldcorp Inc. (USA)GG31.078.046347$250 Bucyrus International, Inc.BUCY17.4414.33486$250 Total $2000 Contrarian US will Recover Portfolio Mutual [...]

Brothas, sistas, and motha. Kale and I, this little dude is AWESOME. Grant, Ayden and the gang on a mission Have yourself a very vulcan Christmas.

Ever since Gladwell turned me on to the word ‘maven‘, I’ve combed the internet pages to find these special people and bask in their radiance. One attribute I’ve always thought ‘handy,’ the power to influence. Bon Jovi does it, you can hear tons of people singing along to Livin’ on a Prayer. He’s got the [...]

The season and year for fog. Leaves finally have left the trees. The banana tree doesn’t like the cold weather. The festive neighbor The most decorated building in town. Joy to the world The bustling downtown. Nicely done A random hunk of lights in the park

I’d say there are changes coming in 2009, first coming with saving, saving for a better day, saving to spend later. Interesting and unique opportunities are all over the place, and I’m going to labor to capitalize. Makes me think of a line of thought in Crashproof, in which the author talks about western ‘information [...]

Time to recollect for the year on what I’ve learned. A buddy and I talk, generally speaking he’s an idealist, I’m a pragmatist, but rigid in my own thoughts. For a great part of my life, I’ve found struggle in how pragmatism and idealism can meet in the middle. Abstract a bit further, and think, [...]

Next year marks the first year in my professional career that I’m collectively producing more than I’m consuming. In a civilization that seems to have forgotten how to produce, we see shifting — entertainment, litigation, copyright and cool web 2.0 stuff. Tears for fears was right, everyone has an agenda in this world. Few go [...]

The last credit card debt I’ll have in my past life — 2009 might be bad for the economy, but it’ll be great year for me. Been to hell and back financially, got the t-shirt. That doesn’t mean I won’t buy a round of beer for 15 Brits at 10 bucks a pint, just means [...]

Stringing things together as life goes on. Gladwell has two good phrases to ponder in his new book, 1, the war on mitigated speech, and 2, glorious misconceptions. Two new years resolutions – An all out assault on mitigated speech — Slapping a time and date saying you need this on ‘x’ date, instead of [...]

Soliciting thoughts on what to write about tonight, you know I’d take the hard one. – 1 — how our almost former president is agile, like a cat? or 2 — The Duality of Man Duality, of course I’m thinking Yin and Yang, but then got into ‘Unification Thought,’ very fascinating. It’s the ultimate in [...]