Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- WTF? Runner found to be hitman after his GPS watch ties him to crime scene

- Peak Chinese? China's looming crisis: a shrinking population

- I am going to randomly throw the phrase, "clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!" in my conversations this week. Just for the hell of it.

- The world as 100 people over the past two centuries. We live in an age of abundance!

- Companies that regularly attend Davos under-perform the S&P 500 by a lot.  Go woke - go broke!

- China's economic growth last year was the slowest in 28-years. They are probably going to have to make a major trade deal with the US relatively soon.

- And speaking of China - looks like the most dangerous job in the world is to be a billionaire in China. One has been dying on average every 40 days.  Kinda scary!

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I've said it before but for me Dustin Pedroia is like a cross between Ryne Sandberg and Begbie from Trainspotting... "Never start a sentence you don't know how to finish." - Paul Dirac... The argument against Amazon - it's the Standard Oil of the 21st Century... The country of Greenland has just 56,000 people. The City of Worcester, Mass has a population of 184,500. It is harder to get elected Mayor of Worcester than Prime Minister of Greenland... Can running help fight the negative aspects of stress on the brain?... Regarding the idea of arming teachers - after 9/11 many people were in favor of allowing pilots to carry arms in the cockpit. Nothing ever became of that... Rio de Janeiro means "River of January". I wonder if somewhere there's a Rio de Febrero?...

EDIT: Pilots are allowed to carry in the cockpit. Mea culpa.