WHat Happened to this place ? ? ? ? ? ?

[Dave Stringer]

It used to be full of people, posing and discussing interesting challenges and issues. Now everyone's retired or gone home!

Today I officially get classified as OLD, yet I feel like my mind is just getting past puberty! Someone help me mature it some more!!!





Please

[Suleman]

I dont know what's happened to eileen. She was the heart and soul of spin

[Dave Stringer]

Indeed
Last I heard she was ill but recovering. It is, of course, summer break time in the USA, with stuff back to normal after Labour day, but hey - I thought there were a lot of us here from "overseas" !

Have a goodun Suleman
Maa salam

[Suleman]

What happened to her? She has a blog but I don t know where she is. This is all very mysterious

[Greg Zimmerman]

I'm trying to do my part. Posted moderately thought-provoking questions to four different groups at the end of July. I think I got one response each to two of them, not a whisper from the others.

Who knows, maybe it is just that folks checked out for the season. Granted, between the day job, the consulting start-up, LinkedIn questions, family, and a little time for sleep, it's tough to contribute regularly here, too. :)

[Mark Porter]

Hi Dave (long time no comms),

Well, I have not retired yet, and although I am at home, I am not yet IN a home. Surviving the Kredit Krunch (just) - that Fanny Mae sure is a naughty girl ! It's a good job that the US Govt is going to investigate her misdeeds!

(Should we trust a country that gives its august financial institutions such silly names to run the world?)

[Dave Stringer]

Mark
I see the Freddy Mae issue as quite simple.

We in New Zealand have a welfare system that looks after our citizens, you guys in the States have one that looks after your corporations! Luckily, ours costs less than yours does. Mind you, if I'd registered myself as a private bank a few months ago, I cold be getting really rich now from polluted loans I might have been able to sell to my friends over there! Never mind - my entrepreneur days are over, it's all down to the Grand-kids (and horses and dogs and cats) now :-)

Go well and prosper!

[Mark Porter]

Actually Dave, I'm a Brit (I know it's easy to confuse us with our American overlords!). I hope you and the animals (various) enjoy your post-entrepreneurial status.

[Dave Stringer]

Half of me is too Mark :-). In fact, just by chance, I'm wearing a rugby shirt that is half British Lions and half All Blacks - it goes with my passports well!

So you guys are with (as they say in the Church of England ) both sides of this argument. There's a great Welfare for People system (does a married man with three kids still need to earn 700 pounds a week to be better off working than on welfare?) and there's corporate welfare too (a la The Rock!) Good stuff the Labour Party does for the Country!

Anyway. Looking forward to the next Olympics I am!

[Mark Porter]

Dave,

Re the multiple passports - always a good idea to keep your options open, I reckon.

Re the C of E reference - I'm afraid I'm out of touch with their subtle nuances since I left them 45 years ago!

[Dave Stringer]

Ah m8

I've never been a member, but I do remember back in the late 50s the ABofC being asked if the CofE believed in the Virgin Birth, his answer was that while there were people in some prodestant sects that said it was rubbish, while the Roman church said it was devine, the Cof E liked to view it as Devine Rubbish. (a bob each way?!)

Gow well young man.

[Eileen Bonfiglio]

LOL! Chin up, we all get old...er....wise :)

[Dave Stringer]

Eileen!!!!


Welcome back!!

LONG time no hear. Did you have a great summer, is all well, what is turning your crank this fall?

Come on - catch us up and tell all!