Monthly Archives: February 2012

Buffett On Gold — And Why He’s Wrong

War­ren Buf­fett recently released the annual report for his com­pany, Berk­shire Hath­away. You can read that report in its entirety here. In it, Buf­fett gives us his insight into invest­ing in the mod­ern times. Buf­fett has a long his­tory of being extremely suc­cess­ful in the invest­ing world, a rep­u­ta­tion that we would be crazy to …

February 26, 2012 – 6:56 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

Lent And The Associated Non-Religious Giving Up or Taking On That I Might Do

It’s that time of year again. No, not the col­lec­tive day we des­ig­nate to cel­e­brate all Pres­i­dents not impor­tant enough to be named Wash­ing­ton which essen­tially just turns into a rea­son for mutual fund traders to play golf. I’m talk­ing about Lent, the onset of which is the cul­mi­na­tion of that most human of cel­e­bra­tions, …

February 21, 2012 – 7:36 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Navel Gazing | Comments (9)

Eat Real And Other Non-Related Items

Not that any­one has been com­plain­ing but it seems like eight days is too long between posts. I haven’t felt par­tic­u­larly writerly of late on any front which is odd. I’ve had a few “ideas” bounc­ing around where “ideas” means the start of an essay but not the asso­ci­ated desire to actu­ally do any­thing about …

February 16, 2012 – 9:10 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Food | Comments (3)

Meditations On Gardening

Many of the most promi­nent mem­o­ries from my child­hood revolve around the gar­dens of my grand­par­ents. Both sets, pater­nal and mater­nal, had gar­dens in their back­yards though in entirely dif­fer­ent set­tings. My mater­nal grand­par­ents lived on a farm in the excep­tion­ally bar­ren (bar­ren to the ill-informed any­way) plains of the Okla­homa pan­han­dle, at least for …

February 7, 2012 – 11:03 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

With These Kinds of Friends, Who Needs Enemies?

I recently started receiv­ing Kiplinger’s mag­a­zine, a Christ­mas gift from my dad. I was work­ing through the first issue I received when on page 9, I ran into an arti­cle of such glar­ingly bad advice that I almost thought it was par­ody. Thank­fully, though Kiplinger’s is foment­ing stale finan­cial advice on their read­ers, they have …

February 6, 2012 – 5:44 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

Intangibles

If you walked down the street and ran into Wes Welker, you likely wouldn’t have any idea that he’s one of the pre­mier receivers in the National Foot­ball League, hav­ing caught 122 passes in 2011 for 1569 yards, sec­ond only to megas­tar Calvin John­son. Welker is 5’9″ and 185 pounds, not exactly your pro­to­typ­i­cal size …

February 1, 2012 – 11:39 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in The Great Sabbatical | Comments (3)