Archive for November, 2011

Monday morning humor

Monday, November 28th, 2011

As Monday morning rolls around I expect that the typical cast of characters to be gushing over how great Friday’s sale results were, see here, and drooling discussion about cyber Monday prospects.  Students will be back from the Thanksgiving weekend ready for class and preparing for employment opportunities that may not be available when they look for them next spring.

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Don’t the 1% know their place when it comes to the 0.01% ?

Synopsis of Global Financial Unrest

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Check out this article to get a quick handle on the growing economic problems that we face, both as a nation and as a global society.  We need to begin instituting incremental changes that will re-balance our economy and our society.  The sooner we start honest discussions about the society we have and that to which we aspire the sooner we can begin to mend the cultural rift.  If we procrastinate too long we increase the magnitude in the reversion to the mean.

 

 

Some time off…

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

I’m taking the week off to relax and catch up on some reading, particularly God Created the Integers, by Stephen Hawking.