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peterbirksWell, at least the kitchen floor is clean.
As many poker players have recounted, there is little more depressing than going to bed after having spent many many hours at the tables, for a solidly negative return. It isn't the money, it's the fact that you feel that you have utterly wasted a not insignificant part of your life, which, no matter how lucky you are, you can never win back. OK, it's made slightly worse when you say to yourself "oh well, at least I've generated a fair amount of rakeback", only to realize that today was the day that you got your rakeback, and that has been included in the loss. Whoops.
So, this morning was very much a matter of "today I will achieve something" rather than "today I will waste my time sitting at the computer" (yes, I know that, at this very moment, I am wasting my time sitting at a computer. This raises an interesting paradox in that I can think of no other way than sitting at a computer, wasting my time, to tell you that I will not be sitting at a computer, wasting my time).
I've taken the car for a spin, I've burnt a couple of CDs, I've rewritten all those stories that my IT department destroyed yesterday, and I got the requisite 100 Full Tilt points out of the way so that I can play in the Gold freeroll next month (requirement to break even, now just the final table, or maybe the top six). All by midday. I've bought the papers. I'm reading about the BoE fiasco (interesting how little mention there has been of the Fed $20bn bail-out of their mortgage lenders). And, well, Yay the Loonie. Only the forex people in the UK will understand that, but I'm sure my US readers will have noticed with chagrin that the Canadian dollar broke through paruty with the US dollar yesterday. "It's a petro-currency now" said one guy. What with that North Pole territory rights business and all.
Having dropped through parity against the Euro many years ago, and now looking to fall through the Canadian dollar on a long-term basis, one wonders how long it will be before the US dollar is overtaken by the mighty Mexican Peso.
As many poker players have recounted, there is little more depressing than going to bed after having spent many many hours at the tables, for a solidly negative return. It isn't the money, it's the fact that you feel that you have utterly wasted a not insignificant part of your life, which, no matter how lucky you are, you can never win back. OK, it's made slightly worse when you say to yourself "oh well, at least I've generated a fair amount of rakeback", only to realize that today was the day that you got your rakeback, and that has been included in the loss. Whoops.
So, this morning was very much a matter of "today I will achieve something" rather than "today I will waste my time sitting at the computer" (yes, I know that, at this very moment, I am wasting my time sitting at a computer. This raises an interesting paradox in that I can think of no other way than sitting at a computer, wasting my time, to tell you that I will not be sitting at a computer, wasting my time).
I've taken the car for a spin, I've burnt a couple of CDs, I've rewritten all those stories that my IT department destroyed yesterday, and I got the requisite 100 Full Tilt points out of the way so that I can play in the Gold freeroll next month (requirement to break even, now just the final table, or maybe the top six). All by midday. I've bought the papers. I'm reading about the BoE fiasco (interesting how little mention there has been of the Fed $20bn bail-out of their mortgage lenders). And, well, Yay the Loonie. Only the forex people in the UK will understand that, but I'm sure my US readers will have noticed with chagrin that the Canadian dollar broke through paruty with the US dollar yesterday. "It's a petro-currency now" said one guy. What with that North Pole territory rights business and all.
Having dropped through parity against the Euro many years ago, and now looking to fall through the Canadian dollar on a long-term basis, one wonders how long it will be before the US dollar is overtaken by the mighty Mexican Peso.
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Date: 2007-09-22 01:42 pm (UTC)Well, it does now, because I just edited it.
I have profound doubts on the worth of any wiki, although I maintain a personal one at work as a scratch-pad for design decisions that I can't be bothered to formalise, and in particular to the work of Wikipedia. I note that the original utopian (if you like) or dystopian (as I prefer) aim to "give the people a voice" is already beginning to crack, if not to collapse. Today Wikipedia, tomorrow the Web 2.0?
People have historically confused authoring tools (papyrus, wooden press, hot-metal type, mimeographs, faxes, emails, God, there's no end to this rubbish) with the products of authoring tools. I am steadfast in denying McLuhan his claim to have defined anything meaningful. However, just because a "media channel" is made available to the grateful populace, doesn't mean that it is intrinsically worthwhile. Ordering and indexing and ranking and correlation of information is of far more importance than mere publication.
I wasn't going to say all that, but then I suddenly realised that this may be my last chance to edit a Wikipedia page -- something I have previously never had the slightest interest in doing -- and it all sort of caught me up in a tizzy.
Anyway, you demean the Canadian National Mint (who trademarked the word "Loonie" in 2006 and are tops on a Google search), me, and 250 million Americans. And, presumably, yourself. I'm sure that the forex traders of this world are very, very important, but I'd like to think that the other 250,000,002 of us make some sort of an impact. Negative, maybe, but noticeable.
"North pole territory rights business?" What the fuck is the currency of Greenland?
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Date: 2007-09-22 09:18 pm (UTC)Some petro-currency. No damaging hurricanes and no major trouble elsewhere in the world. So why does the price of oil go up? Because oil is more tangible than the US and so oil has to be revalued day by day with a devaluing currency.
No wonder Iran and others are offering Euro and Yen denominated oil contracts. Who wants to sell something of value and, in exchange, receive a promissory note that isn't worth wiping your botty on.