Afternoon Bike Commute: Cloud Pods.

Gabriel passed me some great investing advice which he found on some board and I am now passing on to you and labeling the Heineken Investment Strategy.

Basically it goes like this:
If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now
be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Heineken one year ago, drank all the
beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have
$214.00.

Now that’s just a solid investment. I’m drinking one right now. In fact I may end up investing very heavily today. Perhaps I will wander down to the pub, or what I am now calling, “the trading floor” and ask the barkeep for some of his own homebrewed investment advice. I seriously doubt that it could be any better or worse than what’s coming out of Morgan Stanley.

After I’m done investing I’ll pause to look at the really nice pictures at the San Francisco Gate.

I worked heavily this weekend to build some new book/record/photo album shelves out of some recycled woods from a cannibalized structure. The end result was much better than I had anticipated. I learned much about the subtle art of planning, measuring twice – cutting once, and the subtleties of sanding. Lessons I hope to incorporate into any and all design projects on the work tip.

But the wood crafting pales in comparison to my new hobby – block stamp making. I got hooked up with this Martha Stewart Stamp Kit a couple month ago and now I can’t stop. It’s so damn Zen. It’s very addictive, like booze. I’m a stamp making whore. Chances are, if you send me something nice. I’ll send you a card with an original handcrafted piece of afrojet love.