Gyroscopic Investing

You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done.

There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:44 pm You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done.

There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!

I think the desire to really understand must be genetic. It is completely orthogonal to the need to get good grades or succeed in life.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:44 pm You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done.

There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!

That's cool that you're motivated to learn more within your field of study, Smithers.

Enjoy it while you still have the time. After you get a full-time job it'll get harder. After you get married, it'll get harder still. And after you have kids it'll become nearly impossible.

Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 8:04 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:44 pm You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done.

There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!

That's cool that you're motivated to learn more within your field of study, Smithers.

Enjoy it while you still have the time. After you get a full-time job it'll get harder. After you get married, it'll get harder still. And after you have kids it'll become nearly impossible.

But it is not age dependent.
When I was a teen, I used to spend weeks absorbed in a single field of study and would absorb everything about it to the exclusion of anything else.

That, of course, went by the wayside with job, wife, kids, etc.

But, now, I find myself doing it again. Amazingly delightful.

I just recently received Jordan Peterson's new book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life.

I am about halfway through and I am finding it quite phenomenal. Unlike typical self-help drivel, Peterson's academic and clinical credibility as a psychologist really shines through. He has an amazing ability to enunciate and articulate the things that everyone seems to think, but no one seems to know how to really say. It truly is a gift he has.

Here are the 12 rules in the new book. Obviously just seeing the rules themselves does not do them justice without reading how they are expounded upon in the book. Nonetheless, it's a good peek.

1. "Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement."
2. "Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that."
3. "Do not hide unwanted things in the fog."
4. "Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."
5. "Do not do what you hate."
6. "Abandon ideology."
7. "Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."
8. "Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible."
9. "If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely."
10. "Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship."
11. "Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant."
12. "Be grateful in spite of your suffering."

Looks interesting, Smith.
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Even CNN is showing the migrant “crisis” (their word) as dozens try to cross into the Rio Grande. Maybe there’s hope for the media after all?
Nah, probably not.
(This is a one-off post. i’m not sure where to put it).

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:34 am Even CNN is showing the migrant “crisis” (their word) as dozens try to cross into the Rio Grande. Maybe there’s hope for the media after all?
Nah, probably not.
(This is a one-off post. i’m not sure where to put it).

Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote - "Once you establish a reputation as an early riser you can sleep until noon".

The CNN version would be "Once you re-establish a reputation for honest reporting you can continue to lie through your teeth".

So how did ya'al celebrate π day?

I walked along the beach, had some prime rib, talked to strangers, compiled my taxes and decided my market moves for tomorrow.

Hope your relatives are doing ok, mathjak.

Likewise. And same goes for anyone else on the board who has been affected.

Stay safe out there.

Maybe not, if they're the dick relatives. But if you like them then absolutely, I hope they recover and go on to live long happy lives. But if they're the dick relatives, again, I understand if you are comfortable with them getting choked out like Ken Shamrock*.

* Erin go Bragh everybody

The gal next to me tonight was yammering some long drawn out story and said something something ... “torlet paper”

I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard that before, but my brain went straight to “damn, girl, you from Boston?”

She was. North End.

I so love language. And our brains our mysterious things.

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:19 pm The gal next to me tonight was yammering some long drawn out story and said something something ... “torlet paper”

I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard that before, but my brain went straight to “damn, girl, you from Boston?”

She was. North End.

I so love language. And our brains our mysterious things.

Archie Bunker used to say turlet.

Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

Tortoise wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:21 pm Huh. I thought Bostonians just don’t pronounce Rs. “Bah” instead of “bar”, “cah” instead of “car”, etc. Wouldn’t have guessed “torlet”.

Maybe it's like the British where they put them in when unneeded. I sawr a film today. No offense to our British pp'ers.

Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:34 pm Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

My boy's wicked smart.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:34 pm Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

LOL. Yea probably.

I was once at a friend's friend's place in Manhattan for a party. His girlfriend was smoking hot. Completely unintelligible Boston accent. Drunk-Bostonian is nearly a foreign language.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 6:54 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:34 pm Am I the only one who thinks the Boston accent is actually rather endearing?

LOL. Yea probably.

I was once at a friend's friend's place in Manhattan for a party. His girlfriend was smoking hot. Completely unintelligible Boston accent. Drunk-Bostonian is nearly a foreign language.

lmao.

The view from my balcony this morning. The Blue Ridge Mountains, just before sunrise.

I hope dualstow is staying safe and is having fun on his travels.

Mobile AL, tonight. On my way to New Orleans in the morning.


I continue to be delighted at how much I enjoy basic polite conversation. Please and Thank You and Beg your pardon.

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:52 pm I continue to be delighted at how much I enjoy basic polite conversation. Please and Thank You and Beg your pardon.

Everyone calls me 'sir' here in TN. Still freaks me out, but I appreciate the politeness/respectfulness.