Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

More Thoughts on FSD

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Hot on the heels of the purchase of my second Tesla, I did a post one month ago about Full Self Driving, since I had never experienced it before. At the time of my original post, I had very little experience with FSD, but now that the car has about 700 miles under its belt, I thought I’d freshen up my thoughts on it and talk a bit about the new iteration of FSD which will be coming out during the next few weeks.

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Now I Own the Whole Phrase

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I would hope that everyone here is well acquainted with the classic bromide about financial markets: “They climb a wall of worry and slide down a slope of hope.” The more perceptive among you figured out a while ago that the domain name for my beloved little corner of the Internet comes from that phrase. That’s one reason, I would suppose, that the site is perceived as bearish.

A while back, I noticed that the domain wallofworry.com was for sale. I almost bought it, but I decided it was just a silly waste of money (similar to my purchase of knight.club which, let’s face it, is a cool URL). Anyway, I checked again this morning, and the price has dropped enough that I couldn’t resist. So, people of the world, I now own both URLs and, thus, the whole flippin’ expression!