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Are there network opportunities in cooking or gardening?

Definitely.

I heard flying is good too.

One more thing about test taking mentality are the “cheating is okay” or that you can find a silver bullet and win every time. It truly devalues humanity, ingenuity, ethical conduct and hard work.

And that's -exactly- what it's going to take to survive moving forwards in America - unless you want to be an hourly service worker.

Look at our global competition. Do they have the same values?

CEO or bust.

Space_Acer Says:

> i want to be a millionair before 30….

Here are a few tips (from someone who got there before 40)

1. Diversify (I had 90% of my net worth in RE when the market crashed in the early 90’s)
2. Learn to use the shift key (Adults use the shift key)
3. Learn to spell millionaire (There is an “e” on the end)

The talented engineers just love that stuff and cant put it down… LOL!

I still like Star Trek. Somehow I think Firefly is better. Perhaps because it paints a darker picture of the future. :)

eburbed,

Ultimately, a successful society needs humanity, ingenuity, ethical conduct and hard work. Otherwise, we're doomed and I'm off to find my money worshipping death cult.

Cheating is not okay. One should not break any rule. One should, however, seek to change rules and bend rules.

"I heard flying is good too."

As in attempting to fall and failing?

Unfortunately, I have a habit of getting deathly ill (only slightly exaggerating) on most West Coast to East Coast flights. Maybe I should network by continually flying around the world.

Ultimately, a successful society needs humanity, ingenuity, ethical conduct and hard work. Otherwise, we’re doomed and I’m off to find my money worshipping death cult.

That makes sense. You need people at the bottom of the pyramid to support those at the top. Those people can believe in that kind of stuff while they're hard at work.

Meanwhile, it's better to be... say... Bob Nardelli

As in attempting to fall and failing?

LOL!

I meant piloting.

I take sleeping pills on redeye flights. They are much cheaper than upgrades. And they work better.

Per last week's New Yorker, maybe make faux Hermes bags.

You know what is my biggest problem? I do not even know my dream career.

I sleep with ear plugs on flights (though I still get sick some times), so I don't do much networking.

I should get a job in Shanghai with a head office in SF, that'll give me lots of in flight networking time with bored businessmen. I get along really well with bored middle age middle managers for some reason, even though I can't flirt to save my life.

I should get a job in Shanghai with a head office in SF, that’ll give me lots of in flight networking time with bored businessmen.

You can end up sitting next to a crying baby. Yuck!

"You can end up sitting next to a crying baby. Yuck!"

Ear plugs are good to ward off babies. It's their Chinese mother/grandmothers that I can't stand. I just pretend I don't know Chinese when that happens.

Ear plugs are good to ward off babies.

Not puke or other projectiles though.

Jimbo,

A critical part of the Fed's charter is to "ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system" and
"maintaining the stability of the economy and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets".

I believe they have utterly failed in their oversight role (taking away the punchbowl before things really get out of hand). Alan Greedspan deserves to go down in history as one of the most reckless and non-"independent" chairmen in its history, if not the absolute worst. Far from mitigating the fallout from the tech bubble bust (which he also allowed to grow to monstrous proportions), AG made things even worse by actively encouraging an equally big bubble in real estate. How is this "better", unless you consider two speculative bubbles better than one?

Though it's not just the Chinese mother/grandmothers. Kids under 5 should not travel in any form of public transportation, unless they were drugged first.

(Did I just lose half the regular posters with that last comment?)

(Did I just lose half the regular posters with that last comment?)

You still have me. You will get along well with my wife. :)

StuckInBA Says:

Just because they are volatile, doesn’t mean I am not paying higher/lower prices for them. Can they not use a trailing 12 month moving average or something to smooth out the volatility ?

SIBA,

As Peter P likes to say, "inflation is the constant (hedonically adjusted) 2%". Or, as Barry Ritholtz likes to put it, it's "inflation ex-inflation"

In fact, I believe my wife made a similar comment.

When you don’t have money, you want a lot of money. After you have a lot of money, you become detached from it. Even after you lose it all, you won’t want to make it back.

If that is true, they shouldn't feel bad about the FB's.

"High-class rent-boy."

I'm trying to picture you as a Beau du Jour...do you have young Catherine Deneuve's legs and cheekbone?

What is a high-class rent boy? A man that rents high-class apartments?

astrid Says:

> If the Future Mrs. FAB is a stay at home (or working
> severely reduced schedule) wife, she should learn to cook.

Everyone should learn to cook…

I hated that my parents made me cook as a kid (and work as an unpaid caterer/bartender with my brother and sister when they had big parties), but today I’m glad I’m a better than average cook (and bartender)…

It is fun to have a little healthy competition in a relationship when both people try and impress each other with their cooking (and wine pairing) skills…

I like to "impress" people with the amount of oil/fat/lard in my cooking. :)

Thanks, Forsaken! Must've been done by the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter guy.

They, at least enjoyed the roller coaster ride. You, on the other hand, have not lived.

This is sadly true. You haven't really lived until you've woken up at 3am in a cold sweat, because your NAAVLP payment just tripled. I should really get out more (to open houses). :-(

(OT)
Peter P,

I remember your mentioning at one point that some dealership could go as low as $7K below MSRP on Lexus SUV, since we are shopping for a new car, I was wondering if you can point me to any resources. Thanks

I eventually drove my old car into the ground after 14 years. So we are really excited to get into a solid new car that can last a long time.

The hardest working among all Asians are Vietnamese.

I didn't know much about them until I came to the US, since in HK Vietnamese were usually associated with the boat people locked up in a detention camp engaging in gang fights, so the general image was quite negative. However, as I got to know more and more Vietnamese people, my impression changed drastically.

If there is a shop in the neighborhood that is open 16x7x365, it's gotta be a Vietnamese shop. What is even more amazing is, Vietnamese women work much harder than guys. When I was taking a leisure trip in Vietnam, I saw plenty of women working in the fields with their guys playing poker in the shades.

Did anyone see the API score of Faria elementary school? 1000.

What the hell does that mean? Does it mean that every single student at that school who took the test must have obtained FULL score on the API test?

@GC,

No worries - I figured you were being sarcastic.

FAB queried,

I’m just curious, do you know if their near term plan was for the wife to become a soccer mom when they bought in the East Bay?

It would be pure hell to sit on BART for an hour and a half every night looking forward to a dinner at the new Olive Garden before heading home to see the Prego floors in our “Great Room”…

I can't tell for sure. She comes off as the type who never wants children; but I've found that's not necessarily a reliable indicator.

It's 'Pergo', not 'Prego', although we'll pass that off as a Freudian faux pas, given the context.

by the way, i often don't use uppercase letters on purpose. after looking at YetAnotherCamelCaseCompany all day, i'm quite content to deal with the shorter end of the alphabet. it never impeded my earning ability, though poor writing skills will put a ceiling on one's career very effectively.

It is you guys who constantly mock the FB’s and imagine all sorts of hellish punishment for them. I have compassion for them. What that really means is that I leave them alone. They, at least enjoyed the roller coaster ride. You, on the other hand, have not lived.

Huh? How do you figure? What do you know about me? I live well, have a great family, plenty of real wealth, but best of all, I am debt free!!

Forsaken,

Great video! I miss your site!

Space_Acer Says:

“Considering all the outsourcing, I don’t see much of a future for “these kids”. We are at the very beginning of a big fallout. No one gets out of here alive!”
_____

I hope you're not right.

Unfortunately, you just might be...

Time for another chockychip cookie and some Hi-C fruit punch.

I wonder what my broke a-- neighbors are up to today?

Allah,

It is you guys who constantly mock the FB’s and imagine all sorts of hellish punishment for them.

He also charged me with being a realtor because I dared to posit that price corrections just might be sticky (almost a year ago at this point, mind you). I don't know, maybe they just aren't not sticky yet.

Filtered blog rss aggregating is essential these days. FeedDemon is your friend.

I remember your mentioning at one point that some dealership could go as low as $7K below MSRP on Lexus SUV, since we are shopping for a new car, I was wondering if you can point me to any resources. Thanks

I think that was CB. But you can start by reading newspaper for good deals, which tend to come and go.

I prefer used cars. :)

OO

Two possibilities on the API score - one it's an error - two - they were all/some given the actual test to study beforehand.

I had some lovely non-conventional Vietnamese friends, but I've also encountered a couple *conventional* skinny little Vietnamese girls who were borderline bitchy.