Logical Eccentricity

So, 2008 has been over for a couple of day and it’s time of my annual year in review post. 2008 was a fairly relaxing, easy year with nothing too crazy or exciting happening. Let me clarify, there were plenty of exciting things, just not a major event like in years past. For example, in 2007 I graduated, in 2006 I went to Korea for week, etc. In 2008, there was no such event. Either way, plenty of things happened.
The year really got started with my brother and sister-in-law bought their house and moved in. I spent a few weeks helping them move, paint and set up the new place. It’s a very nice place and looks great now.
July was a fun month, I went to Atlanta for the weekend of the 4th, and got to play with fireworks. I’ve never really played with fireworks like these, so it was a real treat. I got to set off a whole lot of big fireworks; in all I think we lit close to a hundred fireworks over the weekend. Also, I July I got my new cell phone, the 3G iPhone. There’s a whole long story over me getting the phone, but I covered that in a previous post, so I’m not going to rehash that here. Either way, the phone is really nice, and I love it. Now that the soft unlock is out, I might end up unlocking the phone also so I can use it in India when I go next.
Later in the year, I officially started up my company. Basically, I incorporated my company into an LLC. I wanted to be able to keep a separate bank account and split it from my personal accounts. So far, I haven’t done much with it yet, it’s sitting there not doing anything. Hopefully, I’ll be able to start working with it soon, and making money off it.
This basically brings us up to December which was a pretty packed month actually. I took the level 1 CFA, just for the heck of taking the test to see if I actually learned anything in Stern. Right after the CFA test, I went to the Stern Alumni ball. It was a wonderful night of partying/dancing and having fun with people at dinner.
The last week of December was in India visiting family. I would have posted that I was going to India before I went, but it was supposed to be a surprise so I didn’t want to post anything about it before I went. The next post is going to be about the trip and links to pictures.
I think that about sums up 2008. It was a good year; let’s see what 2009 holds in store for me.

Really quick post, more later once the movie is done, but The Dark Knight on blu-ray is amazing. The blu-ray version really captures the movie experience.

For some reason, quarks randomly popped into my head the other night. I think I was taking about something strange (or maybe it was charm) and I thought of quarks. I know, I know, my brain is really weird for making that connection, but what can I do? So, that night I could easily think of four of them: strange, charm, up and down. For the life of me, I couldn’t remember the last two. Today, finally I remembered them: top and bottom.

So, there you have it. The six quarks are: top, bottom, up, down, strange and charm.

I saw the trailer for the Watchmen movie back at the start of summer when it aired with Iron Man. Since then, I’ve been trying to read the book since the trailer looked amazing. I finally got around to reading it the over the past weekend. This is the first “graphic novel” aka comic book I have read in a long time, and it was excellent. The plot, the characters, everything was extremely well done. I think the strongest point of the novel is the realistic portrayal of the superheroes, basically their human side. It makes for a really interesting read. My hope is that movie is true to novel, and they don’t get rid of a lot of things.

I can’t believe it is December already; it feels like the year just got started, and it is going to be over in another couple of short weeks. I’ve got to get started on my annual year in review post… But it might have to wait till after the new years.