Jul 28 2008
Funny, I didn’t take pictures of any Amish people.
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I’ll be on vacation for a week so don’t expect any new posts. Expect pictures on my blog when I get back.
Jul 27 2008
Readers of my blog know I like Obama. However, I am not too happy about this…
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a vote of confidence to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, saying he had made some good decisions in difficult circumstances.
“I think that Chairman Bernanke was handed a pretty tough hand and I [...]
Jul 25 2008
I can’t get myself to close my brokerage account or pull money out. But what I can get myself to do is make the money inaccessable for impulsive trading. I sent out an order today to stuff all my money into Treasury bills, good old VMPXX. Thinkorswim will give you 3 free mutual fund trades [...]
Jul 24 2008
I didn’t really get much done this week because:
My advisor is out of town
What he told me to do (non-qual related) has no chance of working
I need to settle down and start cranking away at qual prep but I haven’t gotten into my groove yet
I thought about the direction of my qual paper and what [...]
Jul 24 2008
Write to your senators now. The senate votes on the bailout on Thursday. What is at stake is not Democratic or Republican issues. Your future tax bill will go crazy if this passes.
Jul 23 2008
My office decided to play hooky today so we saw Dark Knight. The movie was completely relentless in the sense that the Joker kept pulling all this crazy stuff. Now I have one big fat headache. I just took an Advil and the headache should go away in 20 minutes.
Jul 23 2008
I never thought I’d ever do this.
I uninstalled Tribes 2 last night
I’ve become too good at Tribes 2. Over the weekend, I realized that in the prior week, my team had only lost one game, and that was because I had to pull my laundry out of the dryer and fold it before it got [...]
Jul 22 2008
The easiest way to:
Increase the average time spent on your site
Decrease your site’s bounce rate
is to embed a video on your site.
I embedded a video during the early hours of the 19th and the average time spent on my site increased and my site’s bounce rate decreased.
Average time spent on site
Bounce rate