{"id":16576,"date":"2012-12-11T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=16576"},"modified":"2012-12-11T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:16:14","slug":"life-looks-more-sunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=16576","title":{"rendered":"Life looks more sunny."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in New York. The endless drone of the Fiscal Cliff<\/em> nonsense and a computer that won’t find things correctly, For reasons I don’t understand. Databases are weird animals. They get corrupted. Then you have to waste time figuring what’s corrupted and fix it. It’s clear little baby laptops are not mainframes. But they work so well — until they suddenly don’t.\u00a0 Fixing is time-consuming, and boring. Important to have lots of backups you can go back to one. Older ones. One will work. Pray.<\/p>\n

Maybe the message is getting out that the Fiscal Cliff will be as benign as the Y2 problem? And the market is picking itself up.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This business of buying when blood is flowing is not easy. But recently I have bought ED, COST, WEN, TWO, AGNC and NLY and they’re all up a little. ‘ll nibble away more this morning. But not at Apple. That one I can’t figure.<\/p>\n

Latest on the boiler<\/span>. <\/strong>The original diagnosis was the boiler crapped out (to the tune of $3,600) because it got hit by a lightning strike. Latest thinking is that it may have been hit by surge when the grid electricity shut down and my emergency generator kicked in. Anyway, the boss of my local boiler shop, Dell’s Plumbing and Heating, tells me Viessman engineers (from Germany) have lectured American dealers incessantly about how bad commercial electricity is in the U.S. How it fluctuates all over the place, spikes, surges and then drops. Viessman engineers say American power gives disgusting a whole new meaning. Of course, knowing all this, you wonder why they never automatically included a Furman power conditioner along with every boiler they sold in the United States? I mean not doing so gives horrible customer service a whole meaning.<\/p>\n

I didn’t choose our Viessman boiler. Our contractor recommended it. I was told it was the best. It clearly isn’t.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s up and running now, thanks to Dell’s. And protected by a Furman. Your boiler should also be protected.<\/p>\n

Race against the machine<\/strong>.<\/span> More research shows the jobs aren’t coming back — like they did in previous recessions. This is an interesting presentation on how software is taking over jobs. Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another reason running is not good for you<\/span>. <\/strong>From Scotland, a wonderful Toyota ad. Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Super good news. I thought I would never see these again.<\/p>\n

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I started to make bad puns about a snowball’s chance in hell about ever seeing these indulgences again. But suddenly they appeared at my local gas station. What joy! They even taste better than the originals. I ate both last night. My life is made.<\/p>\n

Silly, but fun.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

MONA LISA’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“After all that money your father and I spent on braces, that’s the biggest smile you can give us?”<\/p>\n

COLUMBUS’ JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“I don’t care what you’ve discovered, you still could have written!”<\/p>\n

MICHELANGELO’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“Can’t you paint on walls like other children? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that junk off the
\nceiling?”<\/p>\n

NAPOLEON’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“All right, if you aren’t hiding your report card inside your jacket, take your hand out of there and show me.”<\/p>\n

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“Again with the hat? Can’t you just wear a normal baseball cap like the other kids?”<\/p>\n

THOMAS EDISON’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“Of course I’m proud you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed!”<\/p>\n

PAUL REVERE’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“I don’t care where you think you have to go, young man, midnight is past your curfew.”<\/p>\n

ALBERT EINSTEIN’S JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“But it’s your senior picture. Couldn’t you do something about your hair?”<\/p>\n

MOSES’ JEWISH MOTHER:
\n“That’s a nice story. Now tell me where you have really been for the last 40 years.”<\/p>\n

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\nHarry Newton whose tummy hurts this morning. I wonder why.<\/p>\n

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