capitalism *is* fun :-)

I open today’s Wall Street Journal. On the front page, there is some article about oil. On the second page, there is another article about oil … and China. This is happening on every news site. There is a fixed set of items, such as: oil, China, Iraq, Obama and some more. Everything is somehow related to these things.

Why aren’t there any articles reporting about the advances in studying swearing in Latin? Or something else? It’s the same crap, fed by the media, every day. Oil has become a major word in everyone’s dictionary. I think that every issue that occurs somewhere, has a simple answer: "You know mate, I think it’s because of the oil"

Oil prices are down. Please enjoy and engage in useless driving, gouging up as much fuel as possible, paying for it with a credit-card, like there is no tomorrow. Please do it with a big engine, not some little white van or some 4 wheel can called eco-friendly car. There are no environmentally friendly cars. Telling people to drive a car that is environmentally friendly, is like asking a child to smoke a cigarette because it’s healthy.

With a staggering 1025.9 Euros per square meter! You have to sit on a pile of crude oil or natural gas, to be able to afford those prices.

I stopped at a gas station while driving home, to buy some juice. When I am about to pay with my Visa Gold credit-card, I noticed that some of the plastic started to get damaged around the edged. I guess I have been wiping it too much lately. It’s then, when I realized why the American Express Centurion card is made from titanium. It’s the only metal that can withstand the great amount of wiping it endures. Plastic can withstand a few wipes a year, however

This is Jonny Gladwell from Auckland New Zealand.
He is special. He is the world’s first owner of an Apple iPhone 3G. It just brakes my hearth to see the guy having camped outside the Vodafone store. Doesn’t this guy have a job? … yes he does … he has Steve Jobs!

I bet he spent the time in his tent, watching porn on his MacBook Air, while waiting. He could have made a better deal by simply putting a jar outside the tent, with a tag: Spare 1 dollar (NZD that is) to save up towards my iPhone 3G.

Somebody please give me one serious reason for camping outside a store to get an iPhone, as soon as it’s released? It’s a great phone … but what’s with the desperation? Is he hoping to get laid?

This is so sad…

Two things made me wonder and laugh this morning:
- The only 2 places on earth where it’s forbidden to take photos or zoom in from a commercial satellite, are Area 51 and the entire country of Israel.
- The government of Bosnia only has about 200 Euros left in their account.

I was mentioning about this in an earlier post. The bid was eventually won by a chinese bidder, who offered $2.1 million for a lunch with the Sage of Omaha. We might consider this, the most expensive lunch of the year

This is one of the funniest things I have read in ages:
No American has died of old age since 1951. That was the year that the government eliminated that classification from death certificates. I wonder what was it replaced with? "Corporate job caused cerebral trauma?"

Have we actually learned something in a few thousand years? When I see people praying at the gas pump, for God to bring down gas prices, I can say we are doomed.

I was surfing the Apple website to checkout the new iPhone 3G, when I came across this. Cool! I am looking forward for the release of fixed rate mortgages for iTunes. Or even better, an iPhone equity loan, backed by my iPhone as a collateral Watch out people … we could be heading for the next credit crisis, once the value of the iPhone will drop, leaving people with negative equity.

Capitalism surely is fun

P.S: I am changing my recomandation on Apple (AAPL) stocks to: BUY and HOLD :) 

Last night I read an excellent quote. I decided to change it a bit, so that some people don’t find it offending.
"10 years ago we were using oil. Today we are paying for oil" … hence the pain at the pump