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Winter Solstice

This is the most depressing time of year to be in the Pacific Northwest. Officially, the length of the day will be 8 hours, 26 minutes, down from 15 hours, 59 minutes exactly six months ago. Seven and a half hours’ difference.. it’s like another day to work with. For comparison, my folks in Texas

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Magic Quadrant Me, Baby

One motivation for the exercise last week in reviewing 10-Q/Ks was to come up with some forecasts on the marketplace. We also use an array of industry analysts who are ostensibly better connected and do this stuff all day, but the numbers I’ve seen are all over the place. Consider the following chart:

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10-Q very much

During the last couple of weeks it’s been icky weather — dark, cold, rainy. I’ve been indoors, looking at a several companies’ financial filings, connecting the pro-forma dots in an attempt to understand the companies’ fundamentals and make a judgement on whether I think they will remain viable concerns. The job is much easier with

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Post NaNo Debriefing

I ended up with four good non-fiction essay drafts, four blog topics, two bonafide novel ideas for next year’s NaNoWriMo, and a caffeine-monkey that I need to get off off my back. My experience closely paralleled Chris Baty’s book. 11/1 – 3 – enthusiasm. I was sitting in the corner of Cafe Allegro and just

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