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Back over 10K

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Stock Menulet tells me that the market is back over 10,000. Which is great. I just don’t feel right when we’re under 10,000. Take a look at this chart:
The DJIA hit 10,000 in about 1998. I was 17 then, having lots of great sex with Buena, and was about to become [...]

Twitter client resource

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

BTW, I picked up on Twit Menulet after reading about it at Doug’s list of suggested Twitter clients for Mac.

The Twitter client market seems to be driven entirely by TechCrunch

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I know that sounds extreme.  But try searching for “Twitter client mac”.  You’ll find that a TechCrunch review is the first result.  Meanwhile, paging through the results, the first pages returned for many clients are their TechCrunch reviews, NOT the home page of the product itself.
It is kind of crazy that, in the age of [...]

My clients are crazy

Monday, September 28th, 2009

I am a consultant on matters economic and political with approximately 15 clients at any given time.
All of them are crazy, for either of two different reasons.
Half of my clients seem only to serve outsiders.  They have no specific sense of their own mission or allegiance to any particular cause.  Yes, of course, they have [...]

Finally found the stock app I’ve been looking for

Friday, February 6th, 2009

I hold a medium-to-low number of shares of US stock and I’ve been getting hammered lately. Cry me a river, you say? I know, we’re all in the same boat.
Problem is, I just bought a house recently, and I borrowed about 20% of the cost on margin. Therefore, I’m treated to calls [...]

In this with Agouti

Friday, June 20th, 2008

This is only my second post, which I’m writing after a few weeks of hounding by my lovely wife, Agouti. Being a novice, I gamely head over to her first post, to give myself some ideas. Who do I find over there? ED!?!?!!
Ed was my wife’s boyfriend in college. We’ve been [...]

Hello world! Hello world!

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

First, I guess I’d better explain the title. It comes from this classic bit in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22:
The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified , solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directly in front of Yossarian and demanded, “How many fingers do you see?”
“Two,” said Yossarian.
“How many fingers do you [...]