Was watching Canadian Biz TV and a guy who makes a living promoting junior miners was talking about GIX on the Canadian venture Exchange. He talked about lots of stocks but this one seemed the most interesting. I woke up the next morning to see that the stock had shot up on his words….but rather than [Continue]

Hi all, fuBarrio’s snaggle-toothed snarling grin is already salivating in apparent pavlovian response to something that happened last week. in perhaps one of the coolest things ever one of my three dedicated readers did something that single-handedly cemented the likeli-hood of a higher frequency of deranged fuBarrio sightings than has been [Continue]

I was watching “Damages” season finale last night on my Circuses box (slingbox). For those that haven’t seen it, it’s about a big class action lawsuit carried out on a shady businessman (think Enron) who got out of his stock with inside information before the SEC announced an investigation into shady accounting. This, of [Continue]

GL and I attended the Uruguay v. Bolivia futbol (soccer) match on October 13th. It was the opening weekend of the SouthAmerican qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup. It rocked. Uruguay got up 2-0 and then a player from the Bolivian team was red-carded for some rough play after a previous yellow (unwarranted) for arguing a call [Continue]

Close to “Estadio Centenario” (Century Stadium) is the Montevideo “Velodromo” (Velodrome). Estadio Centenario looks like it was built for the 1930 World Cup that was held here in Montevideo. The Velodrome, appears to have been built during the same time period with the art deco lettering, but I can’t verify that as [Continue]

I just looked at my blog and noticed that I haven’t been keeping up with my normal flury of semi-coherent posts the last couple of weeks. What can I say? Is it that the world has finally come to its senses? No. I can’t definitively say that is the case at all? Are [Continue]

Ever wonder how productivity can keep improving each year and yet we have to work harder and harder (now with two breadwinners) to keep up? In “the fourth turning” the authors say that in the fourth turning that people eventually tend to coalesce an understanding that a lot of their struggles, concerns and “undesirable [Continue]

The title I stole from CNN.com Pretty amusing. Here’s what’s NOT amusing….. Mortgage Meltdown Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? From the article when talking about borrowers who had bought way more house than they could really afford by getting an ARM with low “teaser” rates to make their payments low…..essentiall either [Continue]

I’ve been doing a lot of “work” lately of dubious financial value….. I’ve been wasting a lot of nights studying different content management systems, creating sites of possible societal value (at least for expats living in Uruguay). I remember shaking my head at my friend “IBMikey” as he descended down the [Continue]

Yeah, 266, in dog years, creeps up on you fast. Most of us, I’m sure (if we aren’t so old our memories are failing) can remember pretty clearly when our parents were 266 and can remember thinking pretty clearly, “damn, you’re old”. Of course, that was them…We’re not old, right? Let’s see… Did [Continue]