Monday Personal Notes

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• I worked until about 6:00pm on Sunday and when I went outside it was absolutely beautiful. The air smelled pretty, the lighting was great, etc. Bollywood movies must be turning me into a romantic or something.
• From an industry magazine that we get at the office...

  When Dassault Aviation began designing its Falcon 7X, which is scheduled for certification late this year, engineers found themselves in a darkened room, wearing 3-D glasses and using joysticks to manipulate aircraft images on a 10-foot screen. The French manufacturer figures the technique cut some $300 million from development costs. Boeing has since bought Dassault's software for use in designing its 787 Dreamliner.

• The new Buffett Berkshire report is out, you know where to find it. Huge gains for Berkshire Hathaway, and guess who their big loser was in the portfolio? NetJets, the biggest fractional private jet company in the world. Go figure.
• My dad reminded me of a joke - How do you make a small fortune? The answer is, Start with a large fortune and then get into the aviation industry.
• I wish I had more to say this week. Last week really flew by. We got a Xerox C2424 network printer at the office, but we are going to return it. It uses solid ink technology that is hard to explain and slow to warm up. Otherwise the output look nice and it prints very fast. If I had another $1000 in my hardware budget I would get the Ricoh CL7200D.
• I noticed something about the working tourists that are so plentiful here in Georgia. ("Working tourists" = illegal immigrants) The thing that I noticed is that they buy a lot of stuff, especially packaged beverages. For example, at the RaceTrac gas station in the morning, it is swamped with Hispanic guys buying Doritos, Red Bulls, donuts, Hawaiian Punch, etc. Every guy that buys coffee pours - I am not joking - at least ten tablespoons of sugar. And then at the gym yesterday, I saw two guys drinking Sobes and Gatorades while they were lifting weights. Everybody else in the gym pretty much brings recycled bottled water. No complaints, just a dumb observation - but I am glad to see the money going back into our economy.