2,000 Notre Dame students attend Mass at outdoor ice chapel
Pretty cool (a pun?), built by two students. See the short video and hit the link below for more of the story. Starts to make up for this recent ND posting I put up. Another stab in the back from Notre Dame After 38 inches of snow fell on the campus, seniors Wesley Buonerba and … Read more
Friday cocktail – The Mudslide
Certainly a dessert cocktail. But if you like desserts, it’s good any time. This lady has the most common ratios, but most often a coffee liqueur is used, not a chocolate liqueur. We have used Kahlua and Tia Maria and slightly prefer the Kahlua. Other ingredients are the same as per below her brief video. … Read more
Books I read – my 2025 list
This excludes – two exceptions below – the reading I do professionally. And it’s a shorter list than the 2024 (14 books) list, to a great extent because much of three months time was spent on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routine – every few years – examination. (I am registered directly as an … Read more
Another stab in the back from Notre Dame
Not the first and no doubt won’t be the last. Quite a few years ago a professor there told me that the students were more prolife than the faculty. I know the largest Notre Dame campus club is the prolife club and Notre Dame always has a big turnout at the March for Life. Scroll … Read more
Unheard of: Palantir scores 127 on the Rule of 40 used to measure tech companies.
UPDATE: Despite these amazing results Monday, Palantir stock got hammered today (Wednesday), dropping over 11%. Another sign that for the moment the market psyche towards technology stocks has soured Palantir is an amazing company with the idiosyncratic Alex Karp as their CEO. The Rule of 40 is used to value software and Saas (software as … Read more