Daily Archives: 03/09/2009

Warren Buffett on the Economy

(Community Matters) Buffett on the economy

“Everything will be all right. We do have the greatest economic machine that’s ever been created.”

“The people that behaved well are no doubt going to find themselves taking care of the people who didn’t behave well”

I hope we’ll all agree to the latter – just is.

hmm, Berkshire Hathaway?

ActaCell in the news

(Community Matters) One of the Entrepreneur Foundation’s new member companies in the news today. It’s CEO an old hand in Austin technology circles, another from the sphere of Convex. here

interesting when you create “family trees” of Austin tech community – TI, Convex, Tivoli & Dell dominate

Williamson County and Human Services

(Community Matters) well, guess I don’t live there so don’t have to weigh in here

The Weekend

(Community Matters) Some favored pics from this weekend

Savannah Gonzales, the 5 month old daughter of my “baby cousin”.
Savannah was baptized in Houston this weekend

Eli, Paulina & Shane

not easy to get Paulina into a dress, though she wears them well.
The scary part, Paulina and my mother look identical in pics of same age

hmm, not sure this is legal . . .

Paulina showing Steven the coop




my first car, 1969 Camaro


Investing in Equities

(Community Matters) So thinking about this in two ways.

First, thinking could bail on some equities held in retirement funds while reallocating a portion of those monies to equities with significant upside (so would retain recovery potential in better picks, parking remainder in cash.
Second, perhaps time to move a *little* nonretirement money out of cash and purchase equities. AT&T, GE? Hmm, maybe not GE can’t get arms around the financial enterprises exposure. Which are good prospects? What’s wrong with thinking? Don’t believe we’re at bottom, but don’t we have to be close?
NYTimes: Even For Stock Market Veterans, It’s Unchartered Territory

update: yeah, I’m hearing about gold. while I agree probably going up in short term, intuition (worth nothing to anyone but me) is that it’s near the top, on either side of peak. Seriously, please no one take this as investment advice – plus or minus- I have done zero research on gold.

Facebook in the NYTimes

(Community Matters) When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?   here


Having just crossed 1,000 friends, a topic of special interest.
  


More on Coming Together

(Community Matters) My very dear friend Kip ultimately suggests forgiving while not forgetting:

Eugene,  Contrary to your artist friend, I would urge you to hold on to your anger and outrage.  

Too many great things have been accomplished by those who had a rational sense that conditions at the time were terribly wrong: the American Revolution, the civil rights movement, gay liberation, etc. Kip continued here