Reading Time: 2 minutes We had 2 snow days right out of the gate this month, once because it was extremely cold (1/16 Tuesday), another time it was due to the freezing rain and black ice on the road. Basically the road become a skating rink (1/22 Monday). Both my kids loved snow days. In the process I also

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 04-18-2024) Reuters – Exclusive: Bentley Systems explores options amid takeover interest, sources say (Update 02-27-2024) The Q4 2023 results is out. The IR webpage has the conference call. Learned a new buzz word “digital twin” last few days, 1st from the Unity Software (which just had a bad quarter, btw), then confirmed by Bentley

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you just want to look at the contractor list, it’s here. Basic Knowledge Living in the USA usually also means driving and owning a home. And we need some knowledge about the cars and the house. Even if we live in condo or apartments – in those cases we typically don’t need to mow

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 03-11-2024) Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Charleston After Break in Depositions. “They brought them in from other areas of the company. The new leadership team – from my director down – they all came from St. Louis, Missouri. They said they were all buddies there.” “That entire team came down. They were from the

Reading Time: 4 minutes I started software development journey from Oct 2000 in the US (my LinkedIn profile here), for about 8 years my main focus was the C++ CAD software development, and I didn’t use much Database or SQL in my day job. I did take a graduate level database course when I was in Rolla in year

Reading Time: 5 minutes (Update 01-16-2024) It looks like Dr. Thompson (LMS Principal) just posted the relevant information for the 8th graders via the parent square (and her weekly Sunday email) – “LMS Weekly Memo: 1/15/24”. All 8th grader parents and guardians can see it either from the ParentSquare (web, Android app, iOS app) or via the email –

Reading Time: < 1 minute The famous investor Charlie Munger used to say unfiltered* and he commented: every time you hear EBITA (Investopedia definition, note sometimes it’s also called EBITDA, where the D stands for depreciation), which stands for Earning before Interest, Taxation and Amortization (and depreciation), you replaced it with Bullshit earnings. More cheats, liars and lies I have

Reading Time: < 1 minute I came across this term yesterday. You may search the Twitter (aka X) for more tweets on the topic. And this made me to think two small stock positions I have and I may have talked about them in my blog posts too: LEG (Legget and Platt) and SCS (Steelcase). I just did a bit

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the beginning of the year, and one common theme or joke is people sign up the gym membership in January. This is probably true. I do think we should look long term for the fitness and health. Personally I am not a believer of new year resolution, but at the same time, I do

Reading Time: 4 minutes I think this is a very common thing: at the car rental counter, the clerk asks “do you want to buy the comprehensive insurance”, and/or buy the full tank of gas, so that you don’t need to fill up the car when you return it. My answer is always, no. Except once I probably bought