Way Off Topic - But socially relevant right now.

I work at an investment firm.

A friend of mine called the other day and said "Space Cowboy, this is worse than getting a divorce. I lost half of my assets and I am still stuck with my wife".

Now for MM and Susan, I do not think that is funny as I am sensitive. I spend my spare time nursing abandoned kittens to health and teaching abandoned penguins how to swim.

John
Weathering through these last few weeks has been difficult. I need to tickle myself occasionally.

In 94 I had a brief breakfast with Henny Youngman. I ran into him in the elevator at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. He was doing to voice-over for some cartoon called like Rodney Dangerdog or something

If he were alive today, he would be doing that line.

I'll be over in a few minutes my ol pal. I am a malt whiskey guy though.

Tubey dude
In my life I have been a missile scientist years ago. I worked at Redstone Arsenal Missile Base for Batelle Labs and then at Texas Instruments Missile and Ordinance division. You know the old saying, behind every successful man is a woman. THey left out N-A-G-G-I-N-G

I was a successful electronics engineer in aerospace. My wife complained about my income, so I moved to oil and gas - designing stuff for finding oil 20,000 feet down under the earth. She went to work for a major commercial real-estate developer and got to know a bunch of rich guys. The complaining increased. I went back and got an MBA and went into investment banking. I have since moved on to a hedge fund (no we are not one of the evil - fast money ones).

I still read physics for fun.
Anyone who thinks that is nuts should read
Alice in Quantumland - one of the best lay physics books around
Anything by Michio Kaku - hyperspace, strings and multiple universes
If you want to get really hairy, get some of Feynman's stuff - the king of quantum mech.
Time, astro-physics, Einstein...

But more importantly, I have about 20 different single malts at home. I cannot pick a favorite. I always keep Macallan 18 though.

No my ol pal, it tastes Peaty
I learned that on a train from Glasgow to London one night from a 50-60 year old Scott who was a big fan of 1940s sci fi books. Lagavulin. It will put hair on your tongue. Or take it off your chest if you spill it.

There are some wonderful Islays once you overcome the gag reflex.

Yeah Flatland is great. Rudy Rucker has a book out that sort of goes one up on the Flatland thesis, but in sci fi. It is called Spaceland - a Novel of the Fourth Dimension. A Abbott squared I guess. Odd book. Rudy is great though - mathematician and sci-fi writer.

You both do... of course... check astronomy picture of the day don't you???

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

It seems we share some common interests.

I gotta check out spaceland too.

Erik

ORIGINAL: space_cowboy

I work at an investment firm.

A friend of mine called the other day and said "Space Cowboy, this is worse than getting a divorce. I lost half of my assets and I am still stuck with my wife".

Now for MM and Susan, I do not think that is funny as I am sensitive. I spend my spare time nursing abandoned kittens to health and teaching abandoned penguins how to swim.

Priceless - LMAO!!

As to the books, I recently read George Gamow's Mr Tomkins in Wonderland - this guy was seriously good at describing equations so the average man in the street could get a grasp of it.

As to your single malt collection Space, I do hope you've got a few bottles of the Glenmorangie in there - very moorish in a 'why am I horizontal' kind of way.