Strategy

I could have posted something interesting today, but I'm not. I'm saving it for the AZ Challenge that kicks off next week. My line managers call it strategy. I maximize my own benefit, and don't care about yours.

It's a mean world, an I'm no better, sometimes >;)

Whatever. For a moment,  I don't care if the world is bad, when the skiing is good.

(I took the picture  half an hour ago, when I was skiing above the timberline. Another post written on my cell phone. It works quite well, except I can't control the size and position if the pictures)

Going to Hell

The Italian mafia bosses will end up in Hell, unless they stop doing crimes. That's what the Pope has told them, according to the news. (Maybe they will share destiny with the Vatican mafia).

It's pretty rediculous with the Catholics, and the Christians in general. You can be as bad as you want to, if you just remember to pray for forgiveness before you die.

I'm just an atheist, blasphemer and God-mocker, and I'm not gonna ask for forgiveness. I wonder where I will end up >:)

(Another post from my cell phone, written while eating lunch in the ski resort. I took the picture half an hour ago. The snow-covered mountains is my cold Heaven, which can quickly turn to Hell if the weather changes into a blizzard.)

War profits

BigOil is evil. That’s something everybody knows. BigOil co-operates with all kinds of corrupt regimes around the world. When conflicts escalate towards war, energy prices rice, and BigOil make more money.

I work for BigOil, doing technical work. The scientists and engineers are good guys. The evil part is taken care of by the corporate-strategy department.

However, I also own some shares in BigOil. I’ve been thinking about selling some of my shares for some time (we need the money to pay for the refurbishing of our house). This week I sold my shares, and the price was quite good.

The recent increase in the share price is of course due to the escalating conflict in Ukraine, and on the Crimean peninsula. This means I've become a war profiteer. That’s no good. What should I do with the added value of my shares? Donate the excess money to the Salvation Army, or just keep it? What would you have done?

(The cartoon is from The Moscow Times, which is a very good and interesting newspaper. I used to get it on the door of my hotel room when I travelled frequently to Russia. The Moscow Times is published in English. Therefore it has few readers in Russia, and is basically a newspaper operating under the radar of Putin’s regime.)

Pi day

Today, 14. March, 3/14, math lovers (including me) are celebrating Pi day. There are also some people celebrating Pi day on 22. July, since 22/7=3.14 (approximately). What is your main Pi day?

(The formula is the volume V of a sphere with radius R.)

Arguments

We have this big refurbishing project going on. It has taken some time, but now It's close to completed. I wanted to spend this weekend finishing the last details; painting some moldings and stuff like that.

Little boy had other plans. He wanted to go skiing in the mountains, like we do almost every weekend and every vacation.

"We can ski only when there's snow", he said.
"We can refurbish the entire summer", he said.

I think he had good arguments. Guess what we did?

(The picture wad taken about a week ago, on our previous trip to the mountains, which was winter break, and a full week on the slopes)