Last night I could actually see my own breath…I am loving this ‘summer’. Honestly it’s fantastic.

…and Matt I think I’m thinking on a much more macro economic sense than you…I realize a company can expand their market share through overseas expansion, new markets etc. (and some organic growth through population), but I’m talking about 20, 50, 100 years from now when there are no more borders/tariffs, and people the world over make the same money for the same jobs etc then what happens?
(besides everyone having 2 cars, wal-marts, 3 TV’s, and 3500sq ft homes…see it’s funny cuz…
oh nevermind…)
When all markets are saturated can you accept that my theory will then be true?
When there are no more new markets, new people, new products, then the worlds economies stagnate right?
Hopefully we will have discovered leisure time by then and we’ll all work 20 hours a week for the same pay and all pay the same amount for goods and services…
I just circled back to socialism right?

There is still talk of me playing footy today…another chapter in the ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ files.

so by 11 I have accomplished everything I had to do this weekend (to the best of my abilities). I’ve been to the hardware store, got my picture taken for my work permit, schlecker, Saturn, Starbucks, and Hügendubel…yet I don’t feel like I’ve actually done anything. Could not find any anti mold stuff, shlecker had no toilet paper, and the Italian coursebook I wanted had to be ordered…
I ended up with 2 DVD’s and a book on Italian Verbs (the only english based Italian learning book they had in stock)….hmmmphh.

right now there’s a gay pride party going on in the Römer. I didn’t expect to hear techno as I’m trying to nap.
bump bumpb umpbubmpubmbpubmbpumbpubmp
boom tss boom tss boom tss

IN THE NAVY…you can sail the 7 seas…IN THE NAVY…

you got to show me love….do doo dee doo

ok…so I think my point last night was that IF you can accept that one business rises only at the same time another business fails (can anyone dispute this?) can you apply the same logic to people…
‘one person gets rich only as another person gets poorer…’

Is this a case for socialism?
Once again I took a stretched conclusion and stretched it even more…I should really have gone to college and been a professor or something…instead I’m just stuck making random statements that confuse people… 😉

thanks to matt for keeping me awake today (I honestly didn’t know that you studied economics before switching to the cop-out degree of psychology). we managed to unseriously discuss the CPI (americans tinker with it to make it look ‘better’), deficit spending, printing of money by govt’s, the sub prime housing crisis, how long the average bill is in circulation in the states, suppression of publication of money supply statistics, or inflation indices…discontinuation of M3 money supply statistics, Ron Paul, hyperinflation, me playing goal keeper on sunday, BBQ’s, who is actually benefiting from western governments running deficits, George Bush wrecking the US economy, food prices etc.
….OK when I say discuss I mean me copying and pasting articles from learned (please read and pronounce that as learn-ED, then you’ll be like william F buckley) people.

Tomorrow we discuss whether the tax rate matters as the government gets a small slice of every person to business or business to business transaction….If you can accept that argument does it even matter what the tax rate is, as eventually the government will get 100% (or is it 1,000,000,000%) of every dollar it prints back in the form of taxes…

…and Matt I still maintain that food prices as a percentage of household income (ok I didn’t say that last night, but taking inflation etc into account I think we can agree on that right?) has fallen. It’s certainly much cheaper to produce food as a multinational corporation than it was for Mr Ingalls to make a field of corn 100 years ago (ok a vague little house on the prairie comment…sweet).
…and they pass that savings onto me because they aren’t into profits…
wha!?!?!?!

Ok I may have lost this argument but only until you realize that the previously mentioned economics student is really more interested in stuff like this:

select distinct column_a,
(select count * from table_1 as table_2 where table_1.column_a <= table_2.column_a)
from table_1

you may have lost all credibility with that one mate…
you’re almost on par with stephanie who bought and sold my trust for a mere 25€.

random unthought out collection of thoughts for the day…aka more conflusion from me…

Could you put a monetary value on everything in the world?
Does it fluctuate as a collection of inanimate objects becomes something more valuable than the sum of its parts…
…if a must have item is just replacing another must-have item (as TV replaced books, and computers replaced TV’s, cars replace bikes etc.) is the rise of one company (and it’s stock etc.) always at the expense of another company’s fall?
…and population growth must be accounted for here because as there are more people there is a bigger market for ‘stuff’…how much of inflation is accounted for by population growth?
…if everyone has x amount of ‘stuff’ and x amount of ‘currency’ aren’t we all just trading our stuff and currency to each other for more or less stuff and currency?
…prices fall over time allowing us to buy more stuff for less currency…

…can I assume then that rich people are smart and poor people are stupid?

this is probably some 500 year old theory by some genius, but I was just pondering this at work today…which must be a sign that I don’t have much work at the moment. 🙂
…and…
if someone thinks up a genius idea in complete isolation from someone else who thought up the same genius idea (thus not getting credit for it) can they still be considered a genius?
I’m sure history is littered with this type of situation…I’m just not well read enough to know it…

above is precisely why I will never be an author…Stream of consciousness had its day eh?

Saffa casually used the word ‘serieses’ the other day…truly I’m glad at least some of my friends are native english speakerers.

went to Mona’s bday party last night and since Eric (the sock pooper) wasn’t there his fiancée (that’s mrs 2.0 to the rest of us) felt obligated to re-enact the spanish inquisition…
I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition…
“Nobody expects the spanish inquisition…Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the pope, and nice red uniforms!”

I may have ruined them on men by my open and frank answers. aka. doing my part to end idealism and naiveté among americas youths. 🙂
How did I end up over cynical and hopelessly romantic at the same time…Irony really is a dead scene.

Most interesting was the other american girls face which was constantly alternating between confused and accusing…

Lloyd Bentsen: “I was at the spanish inquisition…this is no spanish inquisition…”

stephanie: ‘you’re nothing if not dark’
and
still Stephanie: ‘I think there’s a repressed writer in there…I’m sure if I looked on your computer amongst all the p0rn, music and movies I would find a couple of short stories on there…’

Title of the book I’m now inspired to write:
‘I changed every name in this book except for joe squires’

Sorry, I checked…no short or long stories of any sort to be found…

it’s time for my monthly cleaning…ugh!

I was thinking today about different cultures and the perceptions that go along with that. It’s still funny to me that people treat other people better or worse based solely on their nationality without even knowing that person. I think I’ve seen this everywhere I’ve ever been. It’s funny though that I think people are nicer to me or want to be my friend just cuz I’m american…(like americans automatically don’t want to be a friend to a mexican….are you a mexican or a mexican’t) So I started thinking about the pre conceived notions that go along with each country…and all I can come up with that americans abroad are famous for is being loud, obnoxious, and ignorant (at this point I’d like to say that I’ve been told many times that I’m not a typical american)…(at this point I’d like to add that I have on many occasions – ok regularly – been loud, obnoxious, and ignorant).

…all I can come up with is that the non-yanks think we’re all actors, movie stars or both…so they want to hang on/out to/with that…
apparently Jared Leto is trying to sing…I saw the video with the sound off, so I don’t know if he can actually sing, but I dislike it on principle…hello poseur…put on some more eyeliner jerk!!! typical video…MTV go away…I’m boycotting you as well…but seriously what happens when the whole world is watching the same 10 videos on MTV at the same time…this is where the worlds culture will come from in 100 years…the world is flat and small…

this somehow all comes down to americans stealing…erm terrorizing… no…liberating…no…raping…uh…pillaging…ahem…ethnically cleansing…I mean, populating the largest chunk of North America in less than 200 years…the concept of populations existing for thousands of years in near isolation does not register with them, so they don’t get that cultures existed for any length of time…manifest destiny and stuff….

if matt had written this it would have been well thought out and actually made the point I was attempting to formulate, but since it’s me…well…draw your own conflusions…

I just made up the word conflusion…I’m not going to edit it…it suits me…I am a god…
I mean yank…

The weekend was weird….

This entry isn’t as good as it could be 😉

OK……having a day off must be bad for me…

I’m, really not sure how to ride my bike to work tomorrow…I’m scared of 3 things
1) the bike breaking down on the way to work due to bad assembly
2) Me dying due to being out of shape
3) I can’t think of 3 but it was there cuz I told it to Kat just a little while ago

OK more pics from st Paddy’s weekend….

and before I put up the pics I have to relay that no one really reads my blog cuz i was having conversations with kat about things I already said here and I was telling her that I already wrote about this but…
anyways point is…if anyone who reads this is going to see me please read this page so I don’t have to recap everything…
think of it as a class where you need to read the text before actually going to class…
I had to explain to her about my women comments and how it wasn’t directed towards anyone in particular…if she would just have read it I wouldn’t have to repeat everything…

and…..
when the guy brought my bike I answered the phone and said something like “ich willst komme”
however thinking about it later I need to know if willst was the correct tense (ich wille komme????) and…i want to know if I could have added “unter” to say I would be down…ich wille komme bei unter????
how would I say that auf Deutsch?

so here’s kat’s pics…

and my favourite in those pics is of Murielle the new waitress (with the drink up bitches sticker)…whose dad moved to England…my immediate comment…”oh does your dad not love you”?
mind you some people would think this, but not say it out loud…I said it out loud of course…later:
Kris: can’t you see she’s keen on you
me: of course I can see she’s keen on me…
this of naturally ties into the women who like being treated like crap (who me?) treat em mean keep em keen!!!! (MW)). I can find the issue girls at 500 meters…everyone needs a therapist…
we did later bet on her nationality and age…I did ask the next time I saw her if she gets annoyed by drunk people….she said yes…that’s a plus!!!

the only people I see with mustaches here are Indians (you know…from the west indies…not from the states). Fashion victims or trend setters….discuss….

ahhh March…when a young man’s thoughts turn to love…

lovely weather here today…woke up to thunder, lightning and sideways rain…felt good. I miss a good storm…makes me want to go to coos bay.
at the moment it’s sunny…how springlike…

there is something mesmerizing about watching two 50-somethings make out in a pub….like a train wreck…can’t look away…go you old people!!!