Category Archives: aileensml

Black Swan Theory was probably made most famous in recent history by Dr Nassim Taleb, Lebanese-American former options trader, quant, and sometime-consultant-employed-by-the-SEC during the financial crisis of ’08. The ’08 financial crisis and collapse of the US Housing Market (Big … Continue reading →

Starting with a quest for honour along the journey to become a better person, we get distracted by something darkly funny along the way to making better humans. Arty-farty and over 2 hours of inexplicable scenes long, Gawain and the … Continue reading →

In the meeting of wills between Octopus and Human, there is, however bizarrely, a common ground. And for some, unique relationships and an unconventional form of therapeutic healing, in the bittersweet joy of falling in love with someone of such … Continue reading →

**Updated 30 May 2021 – NOW Son plays Valorant, so he’s not on unlimited game time anymore 🙂 This started out as accessing Digital Asset market via more traditional derivative means, but I got distracted by VIDEO GAMES. Which do … Continue reading →

This was originally going to be a Digital Asset-themed post with a huge nod at finding value in video games, but as I researched accessibility and potential risk hedging (originally for some freelance work), pricing, particularly C2C (customer to customer) … Continue reading →

‘The (affluent) old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in it – but their children believe ..for an entirely different reason ..because they have been indoctrinated to … Continue reading →

We all care greatly who our kids spend the rest of their lives with. How far would you go to do something about it? How honest would you be about how far you would go? Even to yourself… 😉 Indian … Continue reading →

“Do not laugh! But once upon a time… I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend….. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, … Continue reading →

In the many months of looking at Pet-tubes in our spare time leading to the opportunistic adoption of Son’s Bearded Dragon Giffin from the SPCA, we discovered the trippy and somewhat bizarre world of the Exotic Pet-tuber. There’s Guy With … Continue reading →

“The beauty of a woman is not the clothes she wears, the figure she carries or the way she combs her hair…. (It) must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place … Continue reading →