Random Comments

- I saw Science of Sleep. A sweet idiosyncratic movie. Has Gael Garcia Bernal of Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien fame. It is weirdly humorous and bittersweet. Its a French production, so there is quite a bit of people speaking French. As you might think, its more on the arty side, and not a mainstream blockbuster type release. The Illusionist rocks too. The story is totally tight and gripping. The Covenant is a piece of shit.

- Science of Sleep has made me want to go back to France. I want to listen to people speak French. My French is too horrible to speak in, but is decent enough to pick up stray words and decipher meaning. And, I sorta like listening to people speak French. I want to go back to Lyon. Cathedral Fouvier. Perrache. Saone. Frankfurt will also be fun. Europe looks so classy in the winter. Darkness descending, with lights here and lights there, snow falling over the cathedrals and narrow lanes, shapes moving in the shadows.....you feel like you are in a WWII movie.

- I am likely to find employment with an exotic derivatives group. Usually, when nobody knows wtfigo (what the fish is going on), complex math comes into the picture. There is a lot of complex math in this stuff. Most earth shaking financial catastrophies (Barings for e.g, when Nick Leeson vaporized a tonne) come from the folks engaging in random fun with derivatives. Derivatives are like stock, except that you can make ginormous bets putting up close to no cash => lots of people get baited doing stupid things. The average lifetime of a derivatives trader is 3 years, in the business that is, I wouldn't think he commits suicide.