Hi Bob, and you notice that Chip was Johnny on the spot and recommended my sunday night post very quickly........
That's the thing about having seen it all happen before or having analogues of it happen.... and no ....
none of us have seen it all but... I can sure tell you that I have seen plenty.
my dad watched the market, Picked good times to buy and sell his 401K stock and we watched and invested in other stocks... Friday night was homemade Pizza night and we always watched Louis Ruykeser of Wall Street week fame..... He was so erudite and worked excellent jokes and wry observatons
and my Mom's mother and her brother, my Uncle John were some of the wisest, thriftiest people I have ever know..... My grandmother, knew the last
year that they were making the dimes, and quarters out of silver and went around scooping them up by the trunkful. My Great Uncle John was an avid coin collector and stamp collector who got me started at the age of 6 or 7 filling in coin books, he showed me how to go to the bank and get 20 rolls of circulated coins
and go through them looking for the rarer one's.... as well as giving me some of the many that he had.
My grade school in Mendham had some really fantastic teachers ..... and we had two classes rooms with my two teachers in 4th and 5 th grade.
Mrs. Peirera, who was my was a very distinguished very cultured woman, who drove a Benz and she and her Husband had this incredible house right on the off of the as the road made a sharp left into Chester 7 miles to the west.... her husband did something very successfully... the house was this classic old stone home, that was a true beautiful home that was someone's vision back in 1900 and I'm sure the interior was updated.
Miss Siever who was perpetually asked if she was related to Tom Seaver..... even though her name was spelled diffently she was such a stunning woman.... I still have the hots for her..... anyway she was also in our joint class room and she was as 24 and as pretty as any female brunette in the movies today, she had one of the early datsun's that were corvettish in design...
My point is that They were really big into current events quizes.... which was a panel of 4 students in my class and 4 students in her class and the two classrooms were simply in one big rectangular room.... The school was built just a few years before I got there so it was ultra modern.....
We played current events quizzes for 30 minutes Monday, Weds, and Friday each week.....which was a Alex Trebek Jeopardy type deal.... and there were 4 point questions, 8 point questions and 12 point questions
and you lost points with wrong answers....... and it was who ever raised there hand first got a shot at answering the question.... basically just like Jeopardy.
Andrew Anderson Clemency was also in my class and we would take turns being on the panel..... and we thrived on the competition...... So I was reading the NY Times each day, The Jersey Star Ledger , watching the nightly news each night.... reading time magazine each week and one or two other news driven magazines. So they really inculcated in us or at least some of us this burning desire to keep up with the news and pay attention to what was happening in the middle east, the Russia wheat failure of 1974-75... ..That was attributed for making the cost of a loaf of bread double virtually overnight, as we had sold 2 much wheat to the Russians. OPEC.. the 1973 Mid East war and the embargo which created the gasoline rationing and the odd and even days of gasoline purchases where people got up at dawn to go and wait in line at the only gas station in Mendham......Politics, World developments..... US news developments, who was winning Nobel prizes... all the stuff that was in the news.
Andy Clemency and Myself were just leagues ahead of the other folks in our class ... I can remerber games
where we had run up scores like 186 points to 24..... we were very competitive..... in a whole number of areas in school and out of school
There is no substitute for a good education and know free education is available from an increasing array of
sources.
the GOOD NEWS is that EdX and MIT are offering totally free courses that anyone can take and learn how to code in Python, learn the mathematics and strategy behind Texas No hold 'em and a virtual ocean of additional courses, college courses that have videos, interactive sessions, group study and Q and A etc on Facebook and else where....
The Nvda site will let you teach you their programming language on Kuda..... and let you go as far as you wnat to go and I imagine that for those who show a proclivity for going through there online course with some speed, competency and ability to learn quickly..... they probably have a job offer at the other end of that rainbow....
and let me tell you ..... we should probably all be working for NVDA.... unless we are already out to pasture.
I have more thoughts on your general insight...... but that can be chapter II.
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i can report that I did get out tonight and got the chance to feel the very smooth and silk like skin of some pretty ladies..... one in particular was a real sweet heart.
JP |
