Thursday, March 12, 2009

Our beginnings

Being eager students, not allowing our College education to get in the way of our education, were introduced to the building down near the “little circle” filled with a variety of published written works uncommonly known as “books.” This collector of books was said to be a source of learning, a center of inspiration and understanding. Naturally being inclined to furthering our learning we made our way to the building near the Little Circle in search of greater understanding and learning. 
Entering the building we realize we have been in this building many times before. You pass through the detectors at the door, which are in place to deter theft, take a right at the virtual fireplace, head straight down through the doors before making a left to the computer lab. Violas, you are at a computer. Even if you weren’t to follow these directions the wear of the carpet beneath you clears a certain path. Unbeknownst to us, this was not the computer lab; but the “Library.” (Pronounced ˈlī-ˌbrer-ē, -ˌbrər-ē or you can just say Lie-brie). 

Surrounding the computers we found the books mentioned above. Books and books and more books, all aligned in order on what they call “Book shelves.” Within these books they have “pages.” Surprisingly there were no “edit undo” functions to these pages, no “forward” functions, no page history, and it was all rather simplified. Simple and User friendly, you grab a page and turn it. Wow! Very humanizing. 

Naturally the next question was, “oh, so how do we Google something?”

“You can’t Google a book, you look for books.”

“Oh, Google helps me do that.” We replied.

(Back and forth, back and forth…) 

Well to summarize a short dialogue we learned that you actually have to exert human force in order to finds things. You decide on a topic, you look for the topic, you find the book, and you read the book. We were engaged in this old tradition known as “reading books,” (Pronounced reeding) from which we gained the ideas leading to the revelation of “Finding out that Libraries still exist.” 

So we decided on our topic. Investment Information. What does that mean? We talk about that later in another article, but allow us to run through our thought process. The library holds a great selection of Investment Publications consisting of Magazines, newsletters, and newspapers way beyond the finance realm of College students. They are all current, well kept, and soon to be, well read. Each day we visit our new favorite old building, do our reading and learning, seek to understand what we’ve read and publish a response to our findings. We aim to provide our readers with relevant, vital and entertaining news. With all the recent financial events, people are more aware of the financial markets and are looking for understanding. We look forward to hearing your responses and reading more of your thoughts. 

Much love, 

Finding out…

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