Words of wisdom from Buffet & Munger

FP! W00t!

At the 2004 annual shareholders' meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, a 14 year old boy from California asked the corporate leadership what he should do in order to become successful. They replied:

Warren Buffet: "Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."

Charles Munger: "If this gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group, the hell with 'em."

More emigration delays

So I finally got my bank to replace the cashier's check that the FBI refused to take because it was too old (bank had said it was just fine). I was about to send the check and my fingerprints to the FBI for the fourth time, when I looked again at the last form-letter rejection notice -- and noticed that the expiration on fingerprint cards had been moved back from 18 months to 12! Now the prints are too old. It's always something!

So now I have to send them another request for blank cards, wait a month for a reply, get new prints at my police station, send the cards back to the FBI, wait another month, then find out what their latest bureaucratic excuse will be. Bush will be out of office before I'm outta the USA!