A note

I started this blog with the intent of making money off of it through the use of ads. I now can't get rid of the one that appears below the first post on the page. I've given up on making money this way, at last count I had earned $12.35 from people clicking these ads, but there is a process to go through to claim this money and I don't want to do it. So thank you Google for making your Adsense feature, as a token of my appreciation I will entrust you with my $12.35. Don't spend it all on one thing.

Monopolies

So I went to Maryland for the last 5 days to visit my girlfriend. She lives there. We met at PC but she's not going back there, at least for first semester. Because of this and because of the fact that she's pretty great I wanted to see her before going to school. To get to Maryland I had to take a plane, a Boeing 717 to be exact, which got me thinking about monopolies. I'm not sure why but I think about monolopies every now and then. I think I am trying to figure out what company might be a monopoly so I can alert the anti-monopoly people and they can bring justice to the world. Anyways. What other company makes commercial airplanes? I don't mean the little guys that fit no more than 12 people and in which the passenger sitting in front is considered the copilot. I mean BIG airplanes that you see at airports, i.e. a Boeing 717 or 7whatever other numbers they have.

Another company I thought might have a monopoly over an industry is Uhaul, though whereas Boeing is airplanes Uhaul is do-it-yourself moving equipment. I thought of Uhaul because I've had to rent a couple trailers this summer to tow firewood back to Needham from Cape Cod and/or New Hampshire so I could sell it to people who would rather spend money on wood than split their own. Not that that's a bad thing. Well maybe a little bit of a bad thing but I can make money off of it so it's all good. Ok back on track. Uhaul appeared to be a monopoly because I couldn't think of another move-it-yourself type company, but then when in Maryland I saw some Budget moving trucks and realized the error of my ways. Sorry Uhaul for slandering your name.

I'm basing these judgements off of my limited knowledge of the monopolies and what defines a monopoly. "A company that dominates its specific industry and destroys its competition" sums up what I'm thinking.

If you ever get the chance to do so, have dinner at Fogo de Chao. It's a Brazilian restaurant and it's amazing and delicious. Mine was in Washington, D.C., but apparently there are some in Baltimore and Arizona and probably in other places as well. Do it. Tell them Jorge sent you. Unless you're a vegan or vegetarian. In that case, find somewhere else to eat. Or stop being a vegan and eat some animals. Either one.