I stumbled across this today – these nifty things are $150 normally but amazingly Amazon is selling them for $32 – the price is not listed until you add them to your cart. It’s so lot it’s like free or a misprint. We have a few at work for decoration already and I like them [...]

I thought I was so smart – Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU or here) went public on Friday and there’s lots of hype on how it’s the Chinese Google. So yesterday, Monday morning, at the open (6:30am) I bought some shares at $139/share. Surely there is a bigger fool A few minutes later are indeed lots of [...]

This is a reference to an article on stock options: stock options and the lying liars who dont want to expense them

Am trying to learn more about the stock market and how the big guys make money – question du jour is how do you make money when interest rates rise – which seems likely and imminent. The assumption I have is that when interest rates rise, stocks get hammered. Well starting at me from home [...]

Jenny has a 6 month old Powerbook and about 2 months ago the charging system started acting flakey. You’d plug it in, charge it up to 100%, unplug it and sometimes the battery reading would almost instantly go to 0% and then the system would go off (as it had no juice). So I took [...]

I created something I call stock market blobs which is an infoporn view of the current performance of some segment of the stock market (DJIA/QQQ/S&P500). Each blob shows the performance of one stock. The x axis is the price The y axis is the volume (well, the log() of the volume) The width is the [...]