Welcome to Nostradennis.com, The Magazine of the Future

Who is Nostradennis?
Nostradennis (ND) is a philosophical man of the 21st Century that has seen it all and been through it all. Well, not exactly all, as no one ever could, but certainly enough to be able to put things into perspective. Unlike Nostradamus, Nostradennis doesn’t make predictions and that is not what this website is all about. If Nostradennis could make predictions he wouldn’t have to do anything except sip on his cool smoothie on a lounge chair in front of Jobson’s Cove on the pink sand beaches of Bermuda. So, while ND won’t tell you what stocks to buy (even though he has many years of financial experience), what horses to bet on (even though he’s very knowledgeable about horse racing), what football team will win the Superbowl (even though he’s an avid sports fan), he can use his Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) to help you think about things that affect your life, our lives, and the lives of our children and their children. His keen insight and ESP (which comes to him randomly when he least expects it) combined with his life lessons and experience allows him to ask important questions about life, discuss the future of society and the world, and try to simplify what many people make into complex issues so the layman can try to make sense of it all and actually be able to THINK ABOUT IT! That is his goal; to get you to THINK ABOUT IT! To think about things that are affecting the great planet we all live on and the people that inhabit it. Perspective, Perception, Reflection; which hopefully can lead to some action that can at least make your life a little better and your mind a little clearer.

This website exists simply to stimulate your mind and make you think. There won’t be any political agenda, and there won’t be any hard line opinions. ND’s purpose is simply to get you to ask the most basic questions and try to explain the answers in a humorous way. While ND will point out why our future is in jeopardy, he knows that reading all doom and gloom is not a fun activity for most. So, he will make every attempt to explain it all in a humorous way. Not in every article or every area, but many and most.

Nostradennis is a multi-dimensional individual and philosopher. While he has a long accomplished background in business and finance, he also has an interesting creative side. He is a musician, composer, poet, photographer, humorist, artist, and writer, and has a large portfolio of work over the years in all of these arenas. ND brings you his thoughts and art right here on Nostradennis.com in many different ways, shapes, and forms. Here is what you can find on this website:

THE ND CALENDAR:
The Nostradennis calendar began on December 21, 2012, the day the Mayans and possibly Nostradamus said the world was going to end. However, it most likely was just the end of the Mayan Calendar. December 21, 2012 was DATE 0000 ND. Each new issue will be dated according to the ND Calendar Date. When you think about dates and calendars, you need to question why we all follow the current calendar we do. Why is it 2013? Simply because someone decided that the world started the day Jesus died? So we have Before Christ (BC) and After Death (AD)? Why should we all follow that? After all, we all know that life on earth started way before that. Humans as we know them today began roaming the earth approximately 50,000 – 100,000 years ago. Homo Sapiens slightly less than 200,000 years ago. So, why didn’t the calendar start then? Why isn’t this year 102,013? Can you imagine the ball dropping from Times Square on New Years Eve and the bright lights shining 102,013 and everyone yelling Happy 102,2013!!!!!

For religious Jews the Hebrew Calendar year is 5773. Many other cultures created their own calendars that they followed for very long periods of time. It wasn’t until 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII created the Christian Calendar that is now the standard calendar used world wide. But, why? Nostradennis has questioned this and has decided that his calendar is just as good as anyone’s. It started on December 21, 2012 simply because it’s a new beginning. The ND Calendar is based upon Cycles of the Moon, and each Cycle (month) is named after a constellation. Since the first New Moon of the ND calendar was what you call January 11, 2013, that Day (or what ND calls a Spin) is Orion 1, 0001 ND. Each year, as you call it, is known as a Revolution. So, January 11, 2013 is Orion 1, 0001 ND (Month 1, Day 1, Year 1). The ND Calendar has 13 Cycles (shown below) in a Revolution made up of 28 Spins each. That comes to 364 Spins (days). An extra Spin will be added to the appropriate Cycle each Revolution and every four Revolutions to adjust for the basic fact that it takes 365 Spins and a full Revolution for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. And, every four Revolutions another Spin has to be added just like it is now in what you know as February. So, the ND calendar is based upon ancient calendars relating to the Cycles of the Moon and the Earth’s rotation around the Sun using names from the heavenly skies. If that’s strange to you, it wasn’t to those who lived many years ago, Gene Roddenberry, or even J.K Rowling. It’s just ND’s way of explaining things as they all did.

ND Calendar Cycles:

Cycle 1: Orion (The Hunter); Cycle 2: Horologium (The Clock); Cycle 3: Telescopium (The Telescope); Cycle 4: Triangulum (The Triangle); Cycle 5: Microscopium (The Microscope); Cycle 6: Aquila (The Eagle); Cycle 7: Indus (The Native American Indian); Cycle 8: Andromeda (The Chained Lady); Cycle 9: Apus (Bird of Paradise); Cycle 10: Centaurus (The Centaur); Cycle 11: Pegasus (The Winged Horse); Cycle 12: Cetus (The Sea Monster); Cycle 13: Dolphinus (The Dolphin).

DAILY FEATURED ARTICLE:
Each issue on Nostradennis.com will contain a Featured Article up front. Every Featured Article will be named for a song. The very first Featured Article was titled “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?”, a song written by Pete Seeger and performed by Pete himself and many others including Peter Paul and Mary. ND’s Christmas Issue Featured Article is entitled “Feliz Navidad” the beautiful Christmas song written and performed by Jose Feliciano. All artists are credited for their songs at the bottom of the article, and many of the song titles for that day’s Featured Article can be heard on the NDM Channel (Nostradennis Music) that day. All songs are chosen carefully to try and depict a theme for that day’s Featured Article. Most of the songs come from the past, particularly the 60’s and 70’s where artists wrote songs for a purpose and meaning. It’s very hard to find songs like these today in this world of computerized music. These are the songs that make you think. These are the songs Nostradennis feels are important to lead to a discussion about a topic ND is hot on that Spin. There usually will be multiple songs displayed on NDM. It all depends upon the topic of the current issue and the number of appropriate songs.

FUTURISTIC FORECAST:
The Futuristic Forecast uses a Weathervane approach to show the mood of the present and future. The current Spin, next Cycle and next Revolution may vary much more than the longer term forecast depending upon current world activity.

ND SAYS:
ND’s thoughts and sayings are presented in the ND Says column. You can find ND Thought, ND Says, ND Anagram, ND Math, ND Opposite, and ND Words on the left side of the Home Page every issue. Historical Sayings and Thoughts are listed in the ND SAYS Archives. Each issue, ND will list five (5) key words. ND is interested in knowing what your 5 favorite words are. THINK ABOUT IT!

DUDE:
DUDE is a comic strip created over 30 years ago by Nostradennis. The main Character DUDE discusses his spinly thoughts with his good friend BEARD. The current single frame comic shows DUDE speaking to BEARD. The conversation always starts with BEARD saying “Hey Dude, Wassup?”. To which DUDE always replies, “Hey Beard”. After that, the dialogue is formatted in the column to the right of Dude. Perhaps one spin DUDE will be expanded to be a Four (4) column cartoon as it was roughly drawn over 30 revolutions ago with a multitude of characters, but for now DUDE will follow this unique single frame format. Beard is best known for saying “Far Out, Dude”, and DUDE is famous for his Peace Sign which is tattooed on his arm and on a chain around his neck.

TRADER SCHMOE:
TRADER SCHMOE was also created over 30 revolutions ago by Nostradennis. The main character Schmoe, is a trader on Wall Street who talks to a hidden character named Joe Blow (the common man on the street) who always asks Schmoe the same question each spin; “Hey Schmoe, got any tips?”. Schmoe then takes it from there. To read it properly you have to read Schmoe’s answer first at the top of his column and then read Joe Blow’s response on the column at the bottom left. Follow that in order (Schmoe, then Joe Blow, then Schmoe, then JB, etc.) and you will easily be able to follow their humorous take on the world of Wall Street. The Schmoe character was based upon a real institutional salestrader on Wall Street in the 80’s at one of the largest brokerage firms, who was very popular and very good at what he did, and a good friend and client of ND’s. It came about because every day the Wall Street Journal and almost every other publication (in it’s Financial Section) would interview and quote traders, money managers, and other “so called financial experts” asking them their reasons why the market went up or down that day. The quotes were always cliches. The reasons were always predictable and mostly ridiculous. In fact, certain experts were quoted on such a regular basis always saying the same things, that practically anyone could have written their comments for them. It was such a joke that Nostradennis decided to make it into a real one. Trader Schmoe holds it’s water today because basically nothing has changed in 30 revolutions. If we learned anything from the 80’s and history in general, we wouldn’t be that surprised by what goes on now and by the great financial collapse of 2008. People have short memories, and never, ever learn from their mistakes. At least on Wall Street. Why? If you don’t know the answer to that, perhaps you shouldn’t be reading Trader Schmoe!

JOCKEY JOE:
Jockey Joe is a new character and comic strip created by Nostradennis. The main character, Jockey Joe, is a professional football player somewhat prototypical of the modern athlete. He explains his philosophy to his young protege O.J. Simpleson, who hopes to grow up to be just like Jockey Joe.

NDfn: Nostradennis Financial:
The Nostradennis Financial Channel brings you commentary and thought about the complex world of finance, investing, trading, Wall Street, and other related topics and issues. ND tries to relay this information to you in his usual humorous way pointing out that some of the most complex issues really aren’t that complex at all. He uses the well known KISS theory in business that means; Keep It Simple Stupid. Did you ever wonder why Wall Street Banks and Firms, Lawyers, Accountants, and many other professions make things so complicated for the average Joe? It’s very simple. If they didn’t make it so complex just to confuse you, they wouldn’t have jobs. And, that might be very good for the world. Just look at Government. Wall Street has convinced every president and congress that their products, services, and exclusive club of “screwing everyone” is so complicated that only they can fix things or have the answers for all of us. The problem with this, and the total hypocrisy behind it, is that they are the ones who got us into this mess in the first place! Just look at the appointment of Hank Paulson as Secretary of the Treasury in 2006. His previous job was as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Hank was the main man who was supposed to get us out of the deep financial meltdown in 2008. But, there was one tiny problem. Hank was also one of the key men involved in getting us into the financial meltdown. While this by itself is ludicrous and total hypocrisy, Mr. Paulson, went on to give his old firm Goldman Sachs a major bailout, and then told the American people that this isn’t going to be easy because he’s dealing with the hand dealt to him from actions caused many years before. Actions caused many years before? Yeah, by you Mr. Paulson, you narcissistic psychopath! Bail out myself, bail out my friends, screw everyone else in the world! It’s unbelievable, but it’s true. And, all of the Wall Street criminals, except Bernie Madoff, who had nothing to do with bringing down the world, are free to roam the world as they please with hundreds of millions of dollars to do so, while the poor man stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family sits in prison. It’s very pathetic and very comical. If you can’t laugh at it you’ll cry. And, that’s what ND will mainly focus on; the hypocrisy of it all. We need more Supermen in the world and less Lex Luthors! THINK ABOUT IT!

NDP: Nostradennis Photography:
ND brings you topical photographs from his large photographic library. The photos shown in each issue will be related to the issue’s main topic. From the time he was a kid, and received his very first camera from his Uncle, ND has had a tremendous interest in photography. The first time he stepped into the darkroom with a young lady to see what “develops” he was hooked. His early work in black and white photography from his self created darkroom advanced to interesting pictures of the world, people, places, and things. He hopes you enjoy the show.

NDC: Nostradennis Comedy:
ND has always tried to see the funny side of life and point it out to all those who like to laugh. He brings you topical comedy from some of the greatest names in the business to his own brand of humor.

ESPnd: Nostradennis Sports:
ESPnd is about Sports, but has nothing to do with that other well known network. Rather, it’s about ND’s mainstream of consciousness; his ESP. From the time he was young, ND discovered that at any moment in time something is likely to happen right after a voice or thought in his head tells him it will. It doesn’t happen that often, but when the vibes are flowing ND is very likely to tell you exactly what might happen next. Many who know him know it’s true even though he has many detractors and non-believers. He’s even been called NostraDumbass by a non-believer, which even ND had to laugh at! Many times it happens when watching sporting events or attending them, and many of those that are with him get very angry with his knowledge because they go home upset that it cost their team the game. But, it’s not like ND caused it to happen, as no one really can, but rather because he told them it was going to happen and it did. As the commercial says, “It’s only weird when it doesn’t work”. So, keep up those superstitions and root, root, root. If you are lucky enough to be watching a game or attending one with ND, make sure to cover your ears if it’s going to be bad news for your team.

NDPop: Nostradennis Pop Culture:
The Nostradennis Pop Culture Channel is simply about that. It’s a humorous look at the crazy world of media, entertainment, and other related topics that attract us every day to the Boob Tube and the Internet including two of it’s most popular channels; Wastebook and **itter.

NDM: Nostradennis Music:
The Nostradennis Music Channel focuses first and foremost on the music from the current issue’s Featured Article and other interesting items related to the world of music such as concert reviews, original music and composition, to the artists that make us smile every spin. The music and commentary will almost always have some meaning relating to the future, and hopefully make you THINK ABOUT IT!

ND ARCHIVES:
The ND Archives list all past articles and channels by category for all the historical Spins they have been posted. Just click on a ND Channel (i.e. NDM, NDP, NDC, ESPnd NDfn,DUDE, etc.) to find a complete archive of all of ND’s past postings, music, comics, comedy, photography, Featured Articles, and more.

ND hopes you enjoy his online magazine, “The Magazine of the Future”. And, don’t forget to THINK ABOUT IT!