When you look at the evolution of safety shaving razors, you can really see why product marketing is such a prestigious and high-minded career. Not everyone has the brains for it. I mean, really. Truly, it was a rare genius that thought up promoting a razor with two blades instead of one.
I believe that happened in the late 1800’s.
It wasn’t until over 100 years later that the next capable mind started promoting a safety razor with 3 blades, instead of 2. Clearly, these were generational intellects. Imagine the creativity. Imagine the genius. It was the Gillette Mach3, in 1998. --Very popular. Interesting name.
The evolution of safety shaving razors is consistent with the idea that technology and human understanding increases exponentially through time. It was only a short time later until someone marketed a razor with 5 blades.
There’s really no telling what’s next in store for humanity, when it comes to shaving razors.
Here’s my problem: These shaving razors can cost up to $10 a pop, and the blades only stay sharp a few weeks, until they need to be replaced at exorbitant prices—(as you would expect, of course). On top of that, they don’t give you as close of a shave as you would get from a single blade, in a straight razor—which never needs to be replaced.
So, I bought a straight razor. And a couple stones. And a strop.
And now the bottom half of my face is torn to fucking hell.
Now what if you went in all crazy capitalist and bought in the dips and then held it for a few days and then sold it?
You could make them buy you razors.
I like to get the blades in packs of like 20 or whatever the big pack is, so that I only have to think about the cost once in a while. I also like the fact that I have no particular reason to shave, so I just kinda do it when I feel like it rather than because I have to each morning, so naturally, the blades last a bit longer, even if only the same amount of shaves.
I like having a shaved face, because I don’t like looking like a dirt bag. I’m fine with people giving me money, but if it’s on the street and it’s because they think I need it, then that’s a problem for me.
As for investing, it’s not my thing to try to buy low and sell high on a daily basis. It doesn’t make sense for a bunch of reasons. To negate each transaction cost, you have to be investing big sums. It does nothing to throw around a few hundred dollars each day when the transaction fee each way is like $10. But if you’re investing huge sums, and trying to ride a daily ticker, then it’s basically just gambling, despite the graph that might make you feel comfortable. All of the relatively stable data and insight that you can use about which technology is likely to excel, and which business model is best, and which company is making the right moves… all of that goes out the window when you are investing on a day-to-day basis. As far as the info that would affect a stock price within a single day, it’s random, whimsy, trivial, unpredictable, and it’s not going to be available to you… because you sleep in to 2pm.
There was a skit on Saturday Night Live about razor blades with Three blades, with a disturbing animation that satired the two blade animation in Commercials at the time. Now one can find Three and more bladed ones.
I sort of like shaving, though I tend not to do it when I am free from work, unless there is some specific reason to.
That any human could once or can today allow themselves to lean back neck slightly extended while Another person used a straight razor to shave them is the most Amazing thing I can imagine having anything to with shaving. Forget war heroes, these men are fearless.
I haven’t shaved, with a wet razor, in, I dunno, a decade? I use hair trimmers to cut back the forest on a regular basis but I pretty much always have some sort of beard. I love my beard, I look better with it, and deep down women are attracted to beards, or at least women who are attracted to men like me are attracted to beards.
Besides which, you show me a clean-shaven intellectual or artist and I’ll show you a second-rate talent.
What little I have is in broad indexes tied to the health of the overall economies. Risk is dispersed. And it steadily builds over time. That’s where Warren Buffet says it should be. When I want to gamble, I play poker.
Right. I would be tempted to play the market in some area where where emotional expectations seem to contrast a technically likely outcome.
I was looking at the Apple shares around the time of Steve Jobs death. Not having thought about it, I opened the chart with the expectation of seeing a drop after Jobs death directly, not realizing that his death was of course opportunity to create a gigantic media hype. So that was very naive - but I had the sense of having learned from that. What happened was quite comprehensible in retrospect.
After his biography came out, the stocks went up spectacularly, then the iPhone 5 was announced, it went up even further, and the following months as the iPhone 5 really came into the market, the stocks plummeted to just over half of what they’d been right after Jobs death.
Um, not really. Not all press is good press. If someone dies who (it’s reasonable to think) is directly tied to the success of the business, it’s pretty normal to think the business itself might suffer. Stuff like this is why I’m not trying to predict largely random short term opinions…
I’ve read all of them, and they are all second-rate talents. Rousseau is a shit Proudhon, Camus is a novelist who got called a philosopher, Hume is a shit Nietzsche, Berkeley is dull and wrong about almost everything and Kant took about 1,000,000 words to say half a dozen things of any significance.
I bought one from a Chinaman on Ebay for ten bucks. I sharpened it with my Dremel tool, which I’m not sure was a good idea. It made the blade kind of jagged, like a saw. I nearly met my death. (Exaggerating a bit).
Yeah you can trade tons of etfs for free on tdameritrade, so there’s no transaction fees. I think spdr is one that’s got apple and microsoft and johnson and johnson and probably all those big ones, or a bunch of big ones. All spread out. Apple’s been dragging a lot of those down in the last few weeks.
Also, you don’t have to cash out your whole account at the end of the trading session, you can hold shit for a few days if you want. And…I dunno what a “huge sum of money” is, but I think you could throw around a lot more than a few hundred bucks and not be in the range of huge at least when it comes to what some people might consider huge money in the market.
You should buy southern company and exxon mobil now. They’re both in a nice dip, they both pay huge dividends, and they’ll grow faster than a lot of those etfs plus at the current prices you’ve got some good potential for increasing that capital.
Also, I don’t sleep in until 2. I’ve been up at 8am doing nothing but this shit for a little while now. It’s cracking me up dude. I literally just spend 2 grand in 5 days drinking and partying and I don’t even care in the slightest bit.
Oh god and one more thing…poker?? Give me a break man. That’s not gambling. That’s beating an opponent. Craps and Roulette are the two best games in the casino if you really want to gamble.
I would never invest in a gas company for the short term during the winter. You’re basically betting on the weather.
That’s 4 bills a day. —In Mexico… where you can live like the Queen of England for a 10 dollar watch. A bit steep brethren. Hopefully that included a good resort and food.
