Seemed appropriate to match my mood this evening ... Candles by Constantine P Cavafy : The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight---- Golden and warm and lively little candles. The days that are past are left behind, A mournful row...
Musical Interlude – J S Bach
Sent by one of The Waspsnest's Estonian co-conspirators, this rendition of J S Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor played on the Leżajsk pipe organ (one of Europe's largest). The range of the organ is amazing; if you have a good amp and large woofers, watch out that...
Smart Car? No, I will have a Cygnet please.
Why bother with an ugly little smart car to get around town when you can travel much more stylishly. Meet the Aston Martin Cygnet concept : I have no idea on pricing but I would imagine it will be bought by the kind of person who doesn't need to ask the price first....
Coalition smoke and mirrors?
Whilst the press is frothing about the spending cuts, the following snippet from an FT Alphaville is something I have not seen elsewhere and raises a couple of very interesting points : For followers of UK debt markets, meanwhile, here’s an intriguing point made by...
Lightbulbs? No they are heating devices.
Via small dead animals, a brilliant example of lateral thinking and a great way to stick two fingers up at the EU legislators : Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs -- by...
Musical Interlude – Cross dressing edition
AC-DC from 1975 with Baby please don't go - Bon Scott as a schoolgirl is rather amusing to say the least. _
Socialism explained in one easy graphic.
A graphic discovered by one of the Waspsnest Estonian co-conspirators which neatly demonstrates everything that is Socialism :
Japanese Jellyfish swarm
Amongst the photo news at Pravda, this photo story about Japanese Nomuras jellyfish which can grow to 2m in diameter and weight up to 100kg. Best of all, the jellyfish have had a rather good year, turning some areas into jellyfish soup. I would imagine the Japanese...
Permabear speak for the uninitiated.
The Big Picture has an amusing translation guide for those of us not versed in the language of the Permabear. A few selected highlights below, full list can be found here : Bonds: An asset class that will eventually be worthless paper as its value is inflated away,...
Purchasing power parity – Want fries with that?
By way of introduction, purchasing power parity (PPP) is the idea that the price (ie exchange rate) of one particular currency should reflect the amount of goods and services which can be bought when compared with other currencies. For example, the exchange rate...