Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Brakes, we gotta have brakes
Lost my brakes wandering around in the dark looking for the entrance to Wal-Mart. From the location of the Wal-Mart sign in the near corner of the mall I mistook the street before it as the entrance and found myself headed steeply down a narrow windy road with squishy brakes. Not fun.
Night camp: Wal-Mart parking lot in South Charleston WV
Monopoly Money
During the 1990s I knew all the dot-coms would go to hell, because when I thought about them the only images I saw were rented office space and computers that would be obsolete in two years. There wasn't anything real I could picture; the companies had no hard assets. My stockbroker asked me how I knew the two stock market crashes would happen, and I told him, "When the Monopoly play money starts jerking around the real money you're in trouble."