I was just back in Indiana doing a presentation on some work I am doing in my current job to my old Computer Science professors at Purdue.\u00a0 It was a great trip, and a wonderful chance to catch up with my those that taught me.\u00a0 It was also great to get a trip home to visit my family on the company dime.\u00a0 I got to check out the new CS building – almost twice the size of the old one – and still they said it wasn’t quite big enough.\u00a0 Even in the midst of nationally declining numbers of those entering computer science.<\/p>\n
At any rate, when I went in for my presentation, the price of gas was $3.72.\u00a0 When I left the presentation, every station in town read $3.95\/gal.\u00a0 There was still one station with the old price in town where I grew up and a line had formed around the block.\u00a0 Remind anyone of the 70’s?\u00a0 My guess is because it’s prep for the labor day weekend…<\/p>\n
Got me to thinking, at the rate of growth that the price of gas has gone up in the last year, I should have just invested in the futures market for gas.\u00a0 Or heck, just buy a huge tank and fill it up, wait 1 year and sell it at 50% more.\u00a0 It’s seen 100’s of percent growth in just 5 years – way better than most investments…<\/p>\n
So, can you actually do that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was just back in Indiana doing a presentation on some work I am doing in my current job to my old Computer Science professors at Purdue.\u00a0 It was a great trip, and a wonderful chance to catch up with my those that taught me.\u00a0 It was also great to get a trip home to visit my family on the company dime.\u00a0 I got to check out the new CS building – almost twice the size of the old one…<\/p>\n