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puddle of nothing skip to main skip to sidebar puddle of nothing plop wednesday july 14 2010 bad haiku day the vacation not taken magical kingdom tribe wandering desert unresolved issues zen warrior dharma dilletante mind body awakening taekwondo really posted by randy at 7 56 am 5 comments labels haiku sunday january 31 2010 could it be i looked at my blog s site meter for the first time in ages this morning and saw that i had been visited by someone from a mythological locale location continent north america country united states facts state alaska city wasilla lat long 61 5235 149 5748 map distance 3 373 miles could it really be her posted by randy at 7 06 am 4 comments labels politics wednesday december 30 2009 christmas 2009 wow it really worked this time after numerous disasters christmas 2007 for example was the worst day of my entire life irritations and disruptions we finally had a christmas go right it went well enough that i no longer officially hate christmas we drove up to alexandria on the 23rd set up our tiny hotel tree and wrapped presents we took out the boys one at a time on xmas eve adam first they opened their presents then went about their usual alex routines with us next year we ll take toby out first he was very upset when we got to home deopt and it was already closed he took a hd book back to school with him a couple of weeks ago and had me draw a home depot so i suspect he had built up a hd visit in his mind for a while it crushed him when we couldn t do it everything should still be open in the morning next year we repeated the routines on christmas day though we could only take them to the hotel and not to any of their other places all of which were closed after we returned toby to st mary s on xmas eve dw and i bought pizzas for the overnight staff at st mary s delievered the pizzas to the school then drove to natchitoches louisiana for that town s spectacular lights display they ve been at it for 83 years and it s quite a sight and it s well worth a holiday visit to louisiana i m just saying the boy tree at our house i gathered up all of the plush toys we ve taken from the claw machines at walmart and used them as ornaments the crowning touch is having bat man serve as the star a suggestion dw made the girl tree at our house it s pretty and elegant and dw added more color to it this year dw brought home a little walmart one day and shortly thereafter i became attracted to the walmart cowboy christmas village and its saloon outhouse and windmill i d never put up a village before dw and i visited celebration in the oaks in new orleans city park this year major fail the lights looked like they were purchased at walmart or target and half of them didn t work anyway celebration in the oaks used to be a big deal with fabulous light displays and other seasonal junk now it s like a dinky county fair so sad thankfully we saw avatar just before we went there so the evening was a net gain my best seasonal photo of toby has him choosing the perfect cereal on christmas eve he bought cookie crisp which i had to eat after he left it at the hotel adam opened his own presents this year for the first time ever he usually could care less about them but he kept a few for himself this time around adam and i saw this unattended fire engine outside one of the local walmarts during his post holiday home visit he had some fun with it no i didn t open the door and turn on the sirens and lights but that doesn t mean i didn t want to posted by randy at 7 51 am 6 comments labels christmas 2009 family kids friday september 18 2009 hey america welcome to the dark side the daily show with jon stewart mon thurs 11p 10c back in black angry outbursts www thedailyshow com daily show full episodes political humor healthcare protests posted by randy at 8 28 am 0 comments labels politics television tuesday september 15 2009 fools and their money fool s gold how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe how an ingenious tribe of bankers rewrote made a fortune and survived a catastrophe by gillian tett my rating 5 of 5 stars i ve done a fair amount of reading about the panic of 2008 and gillian tett s fools gold explains the exotic investment instruments at the heart of the panic better than any other work i ve read a group of derivatives traders at j p morgan created commoditized credit default swaps in the early 1990s as a way to move risk off the company s books freeing up capital for lending and investment that otherwise would need to be held in reserve morgan made payments to aig which assumed the risk that morgan s assets would go into default derivatives traders at other firms began assembling securities backed by subprime mortgages trying to put together instruments that would be just risky enough to obtain returns but safe enough to obtain aaa ratings they then paid aig to assume the risk of the mortgages underlying those securities going bad however many institutions kept what they thought were the least risky of these mortgages on their own books as they could not obtain much in the way of returns on the securities that they would back the whole thing was unregulated by government and the ratings agencies were easily bamboozled into turning poo into gold as it turned out as the cruddy mortgages went bad aig began to take on water when the less risky mortgages went bad the financial institutions themselves sank interestingly j p morgan did not get into the business of mortgage backed securities morgan s mathematicians could not put together a risk model with the kind of integrity to which they were accustomed first they had no data on what could happen if real estate values ever declined second they had no long term data on default rates for the kinds of subprime mortgages that proliferated in the early and mid 2000s moreover morgan chase chairman jamie dimon pushed the concept of a fortress balance sheet containing rock solid assets on which the bank could rely if things went to hell dimon pushed morgan s derivatives traders to investigate getting into the business of mortgage backed securities a couple of times but consistent with the notion of a fortress balance sheet he accepted the traders reasons for staying away from that business the book contains a brief account of the events leading to the lehman brothers bankruptcy that turned a situation into a panic and concludes with tett s cultural analysis of u s and u k investment houses view all my reviews posted by randy at 2 54 pm 0 comments labels books monday august 17 2009 igoogle experiment i discovered igoogle yesterday g s customizable home page there is a gadget for blogger so i placed one on my page also i may move from hotmail to gmail but i m not sure about that one yet the one advantage to gmail is that it will push e mails instantaneously to my iphone instead of having to have them pulled via a third party app also i had to replace my apple mobile me calendar with a google calendar recently in order to sync my laptop and iphone reliably mobile me for windows is ridiculously bad interestingly google uses microsoft s exchange servers for sync while microsoft itself will not use its own exchange servers so its hotmail and windows live subscribers can sync to their iphones gotta love companies that don t play nice together posted by randy at 9 59 am 1 comments labels geeky stuff thursday august 13 2009 mad world season three of mad men commences on sunday night we just finished season two on dvd imho the second season put this show on the level of the best television shows in history right up there with the sopraons seinfeld and the real housewives of new jersey posted by randy at 1 23 pm 0 comments labels television older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers fun links crime library daily zen poem hunter the onion the smoking gun tv without pity autism mr links probably pavel postcards from holland autism speaks mother of shrek 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