This is rad: Devil’s Slide, once hellish, opens as heavenly trail

This would be fun to make, V-Day or not: Lavender, Lemon, and Honey Spatchcocked Roast Chicken

I wrapped up my final darkroom class last night, and as part of it, we picked some of our photos to hang in the film developing room. These three were mine. I like the juxtaposition.

One sentence in his 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter resonated with me. He says that:

The main danger is that the timid or beginning investor will enter the market at a time of extreme exuberance and then become disillusioned when paper losses occur.

It reminded me of my initial foray into investing, which I mistimed right before the housing bubble burst, perfectly captured in my blog post, What a crappy time to have started investing in the stock market. The post has a graph of an S&P index fund from October 2007, when I first started investing, through June 2008, when I wrote that post. At that point, the index was down 17%—and, unbeknownst to me, the bottom of that bear market was still 10 months (and 56%) away.

Compare that graph to now, 7 years on. The S&P 500 index is up 19% from where I started back in October 2007.

What follows is a meaty excerpt from Warren Buffett’s 2013 Shareholder Letter, extolling the virtues of index funds for non-professional investors.

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An xkcd clock: Now (and the mean time before this becomes an app is 3…2…1…)

Update: Of course I mentioned this to a co-worker, and he whipped up an iOS app straight away: hambly/Now (It’s just in GitHub for now, but I’m trying to convince him to chat with Randall Munroe about submitting it to the app store)