156 Hours of Meetings, Olympic Events and Get-Togethers. It was not a bad way to spend a week and what Ricky and I dubbed the “Good Karma Games”. We lucked out big time on so many things…

School Girls Panties, Hot Food and Condoms!?!?!!
it’s a crazy place we live in…

Rolling through osaka on an empty highway in a high speed motorcade made up of 15 vans and a helicopter for good measure…

DON’T DRINNK AND DRIVE… says the Giant King Kong in Yokohama!!

JIYOGAOKA… on a beautiful day, we stop for lunch and coffee on this wonderful rooftop terrace.

Mimmi stops by Nike Japan to play with Koba and Arase-san… leaving us with some wonderful hair as a gentle reminder.

JiYoung strolls through a streetside flower shop on a cloudy afternoon in tokyo…

On a cloudy day in Tokyo, JiYoung and I had some bento and lounged around Shinjuku park…

CRAZY HEAD STORE… as the university students gear up for the new school year, this art shop of blank “heads” was packed and freaky at the same time…

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS… lying around, gossiping and reading some chick magazine… i guess girls will be girls!!

JiYoung, Miso and Noriko striking a pose after dinner at the house.

A beautiful day for lunch at this streetside cafe…

#23 will be #1 forever!!

Wildlife photographer Norbert Rosing was taking pictures of a team of huskies in Canada’s frozen north when a polar bear gatecrashed the party. This video is not only funny but a cool showing of the interaction between Polar Bears and domestic dogs. Crazy!!

Warren, not Jimmy.
The second richest man in the world say down with some Emory Business school students for a chat and it was pretty insightful. For a guy who doesn’t really believe in Internet stocks, he also has a surprisingly refreshing approach to life, business and making millions of dollars. From diversification vs. concentration to happiness vs. wealth… it’s a nice read. a quick excerpt below, with link to the full interview at the bottom. Enjoy!

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Austin:

Why do you think that despite making your methods publicly available, that relatively few people have been able to emulate your success?

Buffett:

I asked Graham the same question. Everyone took his class at Columbia Business School. He used current examples, and by the end of the semester you would have a portfolio that would’ve made you money. Graham lived a life of sharing. He may have had more money hoarding, but lived happier because of it. The money’s just a figure in the paper, perhaps he would’ve died with 86 million instead of 42 million, but it doesn’t really matter. 90% of the people that took his class ended up doing something else.

At age 11 I started investing, purchasing three shares of Cities Service Preferred. I had read every book on investing in the Omaha library. I was really into charting and technical analysis. I loved it, but didn’t make any money from it. At 19 I read Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor” and it changed my world. Did Ben lose because I read his book? Maybe we competed and he made less money, but it didn’t matter to Graham.

The philosophy either takes immediately or it doesn’t at all. The reason gets down to temperament. People want to make money fast, but it doesn’t happen that way. Graham’s philosophy doesn’t promise enough for many people. You don’t know when it will happen, but you just wait for the fat pitches within your circle of competence. It’s not as exciting as guessing whether the stock price will go up the next day. Most investors in internet companies didn’t know the market cap. They were buying because they thought the stock would move, but if you asked them to write “I would buy XYZ company for $6 billion because”, they wouldn’t get halfway through the sentence. It’s the classic tortoise versus hare, bound to work over time. Charlie and I have educated competitors. Most don’t compete with us, though. It’s fine, we have more than enough money.

Full Interview

We had Florance and Michael over for some delicious Korean food, some good laughs and drink. It was a long night but i’m not sure what happened to my hair!?!?! Michael???

this is pretty low-tech but it made me laugh.
enjoy!