I am amused by all the plotting for John and plasmo's company. I think we should charge a buffista group-mind consultant fee. We could rake in the dough--imagine all the stuff we could consult on! Of course, in John's case, it would be in Australian dollars....

If you'd put your money into Australian currency at the start of this year instead of, say, the S&P 500, you'd have so far earned a return of something like 9.8%. Plus, the Australian All Ords so far this year have outperformed the S&P 500 by 10%; so putting money into the Australian economy over the last ten months would've been a better bet than the American one by about a 20% return.

Er, if you happened to have a spare few Gs lying around, y'know...

What he said!

But I still believe in my heart that the correct exchange rate is 75c US, 100 Yen, and 50p UK.

Apart from anything else it was easier to do the maths in those days.

Apart from anything else it was easier to do the maths in those days.

To be fair, US$0.50 and 33p UK aren't too hard to work with.

US$0.50 and 33p UK

Hey! Stop that! That's 0.560864 and 0.352769!

Which is why I'm holidaying in New Zealand, the only place my $ goes further. cds! clothes! yay!

Which is why I'm holidaying in New Zealand, the only place my $ goes further.

I can recommend Turkey...

Edit: seriously, in the year 2000, the only currency, anywhere in the world (including even New Zealand), that underperformed the Australian dollar was the Turkish lira. This was of some small comfort to us, since while we were there our dollar dropped 10 cents against the greenback.

Well, as you can tell by the Buffy thread message count spinning like an odometer at the Indy 500...it was a great episode. Scary too. And Funny. And HSQ.

And how about the season so far, Hec? (And others) How's it shaping up? Angel too.

Good season. I like it.

Angel is rockier, but still has some good stuff.

Buffy's been one of the strongest seasons out of the gate ever, I think we agree.