Dow Theorists have seen one of their key market indicators become positive over the last couple of weeks. During the end of March, the Dow Jones Industrials Average closed above its previous closing bull market high of 10,725. The Dow Jones Transportation Average has also closed above it's previous January high. This, according to the theorists, is an indicator of an ongoing bull market. Recent daily volumes have been below average of the last 12 months, so it is not necessarily a strong bull market. Continue reading "Market Notes" »
Sunday, March 28. 2010
A Collection of Quotes
Seduction is part of my stock in trade in the diplomatic service. Public lies are shouted in councils and courts, but secret truths are whispered in beds. -- The Miocene Arrow
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. -- an email footer
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein
<< One of the really cool things about the camera is its cooling system. >> -- One would hope so. -- email foot from Dan Drasin
Holmes opined "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts".
"Undecidable by reduction to the halting problem in general, though apparently possible for straight-line code (no loops/recursion) through the brute-force method of generate all paths and send them to a theorem prover to prove equivalence." -- email foot from Scott McMurray
"The American dream is not owning a house; it.s every individual having the opportunity to achieve their full, God-given ability, and each generation having the responsibility to leave the country better off and better-positioned than the next so that our children and grandchildren can have a better way of life than we have" -- former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker
"It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs." -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"If you don't do it right the first time, you'll just have to do it again." -- Jack T. Hankins,
"The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious." -- Dr. Who,
"Everything should be as simple as possible, and no simpler" -- Einstein
"Common sense is not so common" -- Voltaire
"Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits." -- Hyman Minsky
"Never appeal to a man's 'better nature,' he may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
"Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well." -- Kevin Lawton
"Davenport answered with a lift of his own glass, sniffed, then sipped. Tantalizingly delicious, deliciously tantalizing. He saw that it could be dangerous--a taste too easily acquired for something not so easily acquired." -- Foundations Friends.
"Let me state the obvious and posit the known--nothing is so overlooked as the obvious and nothing is so mysterious as the known" -- Foundations Friends
"It is what you do in life, not what torments you in your soul, that matters. And who you are in life, not who you fear you might become." Bast to Herzer in There Will Be Dragons
Thursday, March 18. 2010
2009 Christmas Panto, 2010 Dad's Army
I havn't been writing much in the last while. I should have been. The least I could have done is keep a diary of what I've been doing. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
My excuse has been that I've spent quite a bit of time doing two things: designing, tuning, and running lighting for two recent shows at Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society (BMDS), and then when not lighting, doing videos of the shows.
November and December were taken up with designing the lighting for BMDS' annual Panto at City Hall. This year we had a visiting director put on his work called Robin Hood.
For January and February, we had a local-up and-coming director put on a terrific production of Dad's Army. Dad's Army was a regular series on BBC TV, and was popular with the local crowd. We really didn't need to do any advertising, the show sold itself. After pre-sale tickets to patrons, cast and crew, there were only 9% of the tickets remaining for the general public. I'm not sure if this is a first for the theatre, but we ended up running an extra three nights. Tickets for those nights were sold out within 90 minutes.
I ended up shooting some video over several nights of Dad's Army as a keep sake with my new Panasonic HVX-200A. With that footage, plus a bunch of pre-production footage, I have a bunch of editing to do. Lots of editing.
Our next show is called 'A String of Pearls', with lighting design by one of my mentors. I get to take some time off and catch up on stuff I havn't been doing. Hopefully the updates here will now be more frequent as I catch up on my reading and projects.
I need to take a break when I can as I've been requested to design lights for this year's Panto. The script has been written by the local actress, writer, director Carol Birch. It is loosely based upon the story of Firebird and promises to be challenging from a lighting perspective... I guess me complaining that lighting for recent shows has been too easy, so she going to let me try out some new concepts. Our lighting inventory has been expanded with additional colour changers and moving fixtures, so we should be able to try out a more technically oriented show.