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posted by David M Gordon | 7:26 AM
The Deipnosophist
Where the science of investing becomes an art of living
About Me
- Name: David M Gordon
- Location: Summerlin, Nevada, United States
A private investor for 20+ years, I manage private portfolios and write about investing. You can read my market musings on three different sites: 1) The Deipnosophist, dedicated to teaching the market's processes and mechanics; 2) Investment Poetry, a subscription site dedicated to real time investment recommendations; and 3) Seeking Alpha, a combination of the other two sites with a mix of reprints from this site and all-original content. See you here, there, or the other site!
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Reading:
Apothegms
- "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -Confucius
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- "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D Roosevelt
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- "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Henry Ford
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- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
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- "In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." -Bertrand Russell
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- "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." -Ogden Nash
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- "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." -Sir Francis Bacon
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- "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me how to live." -Alexander Herzen
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- "If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -E. B. White
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- "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward
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- "If you live only for yourself, then dying is an especially scary proposition." -Anonymous
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- Recommended
- ↑ Truly a stupendous feat of literary legerdemain, as Justin Evans transcends the genre. Wow!
- ↑ Science fiction, as a literary genre, often succeeds as science fiction but fails as literature. BLINDSIGHT by Peter Watts succeeds on all counts. A brilliantly told tale of awe and wonder, it deals with the Big Ideas but never, not one time, stints on its characters and their motivations. One of the better, if not best, SF novels I have ever read.
- Riches steep each page, paragraph, and sentence of this endearing, funny, magical, magisterial novel.
- ↑ Especial merit
- ↑ I believed I would not like this novel, but wow did it ever surprise me! I loved its discursive insights on many topics.
- ↑ This past year has brought to my attention several wonderful novels, but each, at best, merely equals this perfect gem of a novel. Sadly, I have completed the novel, and so can pay the highest compliment a reader could pay a writer: I have ordered all of her other novels. Highly recommended.
- ↑ I can only shake my head in amazement and wonder -- this is a first novel? Yes, but it also qualifies as extraordinarily accomplished, assured, and fantastic. Wow!
- ↑ Especial merit
- ↑ Especial merit
- ↑ Especial merit
- ↑ Especial merit
Movies
- ↑ CONTACT
- ↑ Starting Out in the Evening has more up its sleeve than the simple telling of a plot or introducing its viewers to 3 dimensional characters; no, this movie talks about literature, literacy, the writing process, and more. And does so winningly, although deliberately. To my surprise, it is not for all viewers, although I find it magical.
Music
- ↑ Saeta's music is not to everyone's taste or mood, but certainly mine!
21 February 2012
17 February 2012
Surprising numbers, startling proportions
I have yet to fact check these numbers, but they do seem more than plausible...
As my friend TG (who shared the link) said, "Frightening!"
I could not agree more.
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist
As my friend TG (who shared the link) said, "Frightening!"
I could not agree more.
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist
Labels: Economics, Geo-politics, Humanities, Rants
posted by David M Gordon | 1:07 PM
