Posted in bubble, real estate, trivia, tagged lost cause, saints, wishful thinking on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t noticed from the previous posts and links, I read WSJ compulsively except for the editorial section . (And as a rule, I don’t read the editorial sections of most papers and magazines because I have my own opinions and don’t feel the need to know a stranger’s opinion.) So in yesterday’s WSJ, the Personal [...]
Posted in Finance, politics, tagged gasoline, inflation, subsidy, Venezuela on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s true. One can fill up for $0.07/gallon these days right here in the Americas…specifically, Venezuela. There is a good article describing this phenomenon in NYT and it’s weird to read that there are people clamoring for Hummers these days. Not being the biggest fan of Hugo Chavez, I found it amusing that even he can’t [...]
Posted in pet peeves, tagged canada, cheapskates, ebay on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I recently bought something off of Ebay and realized that I didn’t need it about a week later. So I mulled over what to do with these books…I decided to list them on Ebay and see if anyone would bid on them. I made sure that even if someone got it for only a dollar, [...]
Posted in life, tagged gold, personal finance on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a fan of WSJ and since I subscribe to the online version, the online-only columns that pertain to personal finance are on my must-read list. This week’s Fiscally Fit column was of greater interest to me because it involved cars and since I will be buying a car soon, I am reading any and [...]
Posted in life, tagged wedding cake on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A friend sent me this recently and it really cheered up my day. Since I’m not engaged and don’t have any plans to throw myself a lavish reception of any kind, it’s beyond me why one would spend money on such a creation but I’m glad this bride did.
Posted in life, tagged fire on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Santa Ana winds kicked up in SoCal on Saturday and so began the wild fire season. Since I am lucky (for now) to be rather far away from both the Malibu and Canyon Country fires, I was able to take these photos of the smoke and wind. I figured that it will be couple of [...]
Posted in marketing, tagged bad design, pharmaceutical on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It pained me to read about Pfizer’s missteps with their insulin inhaler as I indirectly hold this stock through a mutual fund but when I saw the actual device, I could not believe it actually went beyond the conceptual stage to the market place.
The line that really caught my eye reads:
The Exubera device, which some [...]
Posted in bubble, marketing, tax shelter, tagged animals, South America, speculative bubbles, tax shelter on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A friend recently sent me a link for this commercial concerning alpacas. When she first mentioned the commercial, I thought she was kidding but the commercial confirms the existence of people who proclaim their love of this camelid on late night TV.
This got me thinking about an article I read in WSJ a long time [...]
Posted in real estate, tagged global warming, land, wine on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t believe in global warming, well, look northward to Canada and see what is happening. There was a really good article in Wall Street Journal this week on the changing climate and the ramifications for vinters.
I’ve actually “known” that Canada would become the breadbasket of North America since I read an article about [...]
Posted in marketing, real estate, tagged advertisement, parking lot, real estate on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I recently pulled into the local Trader Joe’s and thought that they repainted their parking lot. From a distance, the lines demarking the parking spaces were brighter than usual so I thought the landlord decided to spruce up the parking lot area. I was mistaken. Take a look below:
I never saw this before and [...]
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