Odd Bits
Published on June 17, 2010


NBIX

Four months ago, we added NBIX to our little basket of speculative drug stocks, at $2.60.  Yesterday, with the announcement of a global marketing deal with an established drug company (as Guru foretold), the stock closed at $5.37, giving us our double.  Guru thinks, with time, it will be worth considerably more. I’m holding all mine.

 

GLDD

Not the worst time to own shares in a dredging company, very sad to say.  Here’s the press release.

 

HAND DRYERS

Oleaginous:  “The Dyson Airblades™ you wrote about yesterday are installed at the international terminal of San Francisco International Airport, and I gotta say these things really work.  I have hands with a lot of excess oil that are near-impossible to dry with two paper towels, and these devices dry my hands perfectly.  Highly recommended.”

 

COOKING LIKE A GUY™

The container says, “best if purchased before 3/10/06” and I’m certain I purchased it well before then, so it should be fine.

 

WHY IS TODAY THURSDAY? 

John Seiffer:  “I loved the section on dozens counting and the length of a month.  I wonder if you could ask your readers the genesis (pun intended) of the weekly Sabbath. It seems to me that unlike the month, year, and day the 7 day cycle has no physical or astronomical equivalent. And yet is seems to be a very pervasive (perhaps universal) cycle that people observe in many different cultures. I wonder if I'm right about that. I find it very practical for many planning purposes and wonder if there's something innate to our physiology about it.”

 

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