The news has been almost uniformly bad, these last couple of months. What had been complaints of too much money chasing too few good assets has now turned into the rout of too little money being available to buy any assets, proving yet again that there is no intrinsic value to anything other than what someone will pay for it. Iceland, Ukraine, and Hungary are being bailed out by the IMF, Japanese banks are being restructured again, and people are anxiously drawing parallels with the great depression and convincing themselves that this set of circumstances is different enough for safety.
And in the meantime, the sun is shining, while the autumn leaves are falling and make satisfying crisp sounds when you walk on them. I showed off my latest project at a Sun-internal conference last week, got lots of good feedback, and am having a lot of fun working with a great team of people. It almost seems surreal, this experience of real work and life placed against the backdrop of what’s brought on the news as often as you can stand to watch or listen to it.
We certainly do live in interesting times.
For some reason, reading this posting had me asking the absurd question, “Will these changes finally bring an end to the worldwide shortage of Nintendo Wii video game consoles?”