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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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
Sometime Tuesday, my laptop crashed. I don’t know exactly what happened, except when I woke up, the machine had powered itself off and would not get past its POST. I power-cycled the machine several times, expecting different results. No, I’m not crazy; computing is just that nondeterministic. I undocked the laptop and tried again. This
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I’ve had an account with monster.com since 1996. Basically forever. From 1996-1999, they were a great source for job hunting. Real companies posted actual jobs. If you applied, and were reasonably qualified, a human being often responded with a genuine personalized email. (When the response was unfavorable, you’d have what’s known as a “flying hatchet”
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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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In the NaNoWriMo excerpt I wrote this weekend, my characters were avoiding doing anything by debating why “tricky questions” are so prevalent during interviews. By “tricky question,” I mean something that has nothing to do with practicality, but might win you a bar bet or provide suitable blogging material (for me). For example, I was
It’s not exactly a plot twist, because I don’t really have a plot, but my characters have lost interest in the road trip and are debating the the managerial styles of the captains — Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Sisko, and Archer. This spilled over into opinions of their respective overall series, first officers, bridge crew, and
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