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How can you not love these guys?
Two other songs over at NPR's site (click the link above)
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How can you not love these guys?
Two other songs over at NPR's site (click the link above)
The blog has been a bit slow lately because I've been finishing up a job and, well, lazy. I've also been kicking myself for a terrible stock move. Thankfully, it wasn't one in which I lost a lot of money; it was one in which I could have made a lot of money but didn't have faith in my research.
I bought an August $23 dollar call for Akamai Technologies and sold it a day later because the stock dropped a lot and I doubted myself. Here's the graph with handy locaters for where I bought and sold.
As of now, I cost myself around 350 dollars on the botched sale. I know, not a lot for some of you high rollers out there but better than the return I've gotten on the items that I bought instead. Anyway, I recently cashed out one of my options for a decent profit and I'm breaking even overall now that my TMO Options, which plummeted at the end of the year, has bounced back a bit. Still, that one option has basically wiped out the gains in my other stocks/options.
I've yet to really reinvest this year but when I do, I'm definitely switching to E-Trade or another site. They've made some changes to Sharebuilder but the options are still terrible - the prices listed on your portfolio page often doesn't change for weeks.
Is it me or are cell phones making technology worse? Yahoo Mail just got updated and it's the latest in a long line of sites that has made itself simpler and less appealing to the eye in order to function better on cell phones. Telecommunication has taken a step back, switching from phone calls to text messages. Twitter has replaced individual blogs with blurbs. Whodathunkit?
In an unrelated thought, Adrian Wojnarowski has a great article on Lebron James's uniform switch. He talks about how the move wasn't to honor Michael but to chase Kobe for the lead in jersey sales (Kobe went to #1 when he switched to #24). I really hope that's true because to move to #6 is a slap in the face to Bill Russell. Sadly, it's a slap that I could see Lebron making since he's much more the businessman like Jordan and is seemingly unwilling to really take a stand politically ala Russell. Sadly, the most influential quote out of an athlete in the last few decades is His Airness's line on why he didn't endorse a candidate, "Republicans buy sneakers, too."
I'm sure Lebron is a good buy but between his corny antics and his icon-chasing ways, I really can't stand him. I know, as a Celtics fan, that I shouldn't say this but I'd much rather see the Lakers win the title than the Cavs. Let Ron Ron, not Lebron, get his first title. Granted, I'm not sure it will even get that far; I don't think the Cavs are going to beat the Orlando Magic.
I've promoted the site "Unhappy Hipsters" before but there are a bunch of new updates there that made me laugh, including this one that actually made me laugh out loud.
Found this on The Playlist. This is kind of an interesting show. It is a kind of oddball talk show with the man who is best known as running on stage with Bob Dylan at the Grammys with "Soy Bomb" written on his chest. Anyway, the show is set up as a fake psych session, the "host" being the therapist, asking completely random questions (and a few pointed ones). It's kind of interesting to watch Portnoy and the guests try to make up questions and answers. It's almost like watching a creative writing assignment unfold in front of you. The show is on Hulu but I think it could make for an interesting late night show on some cable channel like Bravo.
All work and sleeping late makes SoulHonky.com a dull blog.
Might be a slow week on the ol' blog. I'm starting a new episode at work and trying to make it so that March doesn't get wasted like the first two months of this year. Still trying to plot out the pilot I'm working on. I'm trying to write a procedural but I keep delving deeper into involved sub-plots that would make the show more of a serialized show. Ah well. Hopefully I'll write the second act tonight and while I do, I might be listening to this album from Panthu du Prince.
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