http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2008/12/historical-distribution-of-annual-us-market-returns-from-1825-present-how-bad-was-2008.html

based on the diagram in this post, 2008 is 'once-maybe-twice-in-a-lifetime' type of a year, as far as investing is concerned. interesting, huh? wonder where 2009 will end up...

Making myself feel better. A chart!

As you can see from this chart, this market is great! Each dollar I spend is buying more and more shares of DODGX!!

WTF

Hi, what the hell, my 401k is down like 50%. Here is what I have to say to all those bone heads who are saying "stay the course"

the market - a ponzi scheme?

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/09/08/talking-stocks-and-money/

good stuff by Mark Cuban

another money-making idea

inspired by: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2008/07/23/human-powered_floating_gym.php

create (rather, modify existing designs of) gym machines that generate electricity, sell to metropolis gyms. treadmills, stationary bikes, elliptical trainers and stair-masters are easy; what's slightly harder is the weight-machines. how would you have the user generate more electricity, as the resistance is increased? in other words, how do you make sure the increase in resistance is achieved by generating more electricity, rather that by adding more weights?

starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo

makes all the sense in the world, right?

Deep thought about Mickey Mouse

As suggested by: http://k1teacher.blogspot.com/

don't you think that a Disney trip should count as a deduction? I mean its job related after all...seriously, i work with very young children ya know, and it is important for my professional success to be up on the latest characters.... so its ummm research...yeah thats it

So what do you think? Since she is a teacher, would a Disney vacation be a tax deduction?

After all, to effectively do her job she needs to know about the latest characters. A Disney trip is really just her keeping her education up to date. It's not that different from attending a conference or taking a graduate course. Except of course grad courses don't usually involve standing in line for 2 hours to shake hands and have you picture taken with Mickey Mouse.

More about poop (sorry if this is gross)

I just learned that people are willing to pay 12.95 per week to have someone come to their house and pick up their dog's poop. Wow.

This has implications for my bio reactor plan, which I wrote about previously.

1. I could run such a business to collect material for my plan
2. I could contact existing businesses and collect the poop from them, thus saving their disposal costs and providing me with fuel

What still remains for this business idea is to do analyze the costs and smell producing characteristics of constructing a bio reactor and harnessing the methane for electricity. Then I need to do a pay-off analysis to see when any costs would start paying for themselves.

Any feedback from you?

more links:
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html
http://biorealis.com/wwwroot/digester_revised.html
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_workplace/farms_ranches/index.cfm/mytopic=30004

"A biodigester usually requires manure from more than 150 large animals to cost effectively generate electricity." that means I need like 300 dogs pooping like crazy. ewww.