A quote for today, the first of January 2010.
“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”
– Mark Twain. 1863.
New Year’s Resolutions? Not for me.
So far I have stuck to this concept almost perfectly:
Chuck out all your old opinions. It doesn’t hurt to start afresh every once in a while. For the first few weeks of the year, your only contribution to any conversation should be the word “huh”. Eventually you will form brand new opinions based on the abject stupidity of other people’s opinions.
Just another few weeks of this and I will have a whole new set of contrary opinions to flummox people with.
Looking forward to it.
A beginning of the new year Hubdub update.
So here we are on the first of January 2009, and my Hubdub account balance, as I type this, stands as follows;
Net worth: hd$17,804
Cash: hd$2,191
Open predictions: hd$15,614
Quarterly gain; hd$102 (1st day of new quarter).
Total predictions made: 2033
Open predictions: 128, of which 113 I have made public.
I am at present ranking at #29 on the global Hubdub leaderboard.
Looking good. Onwards!
Here we go, into 2009.
Let’s see what this year brings. I have a feeling that it is going to be quite interesting in that special interesting way.
Have a good one!