Archive for June, 2012

• Is It Possible To Get Voodoo Cursed Via Text?
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 28th, 2012 at 12:18 pm, Comments: 0

  I awoke this morning, as I do every morning, to a trio of hungry Brussels Griffons.  Griffey started it this morning, barking at the wind. [...]

• SEC Complaint Against Harbinger Capital – aka “Was That Wrong? Should I Not Have Done That?”
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 28th, 2012 at 9:00 am, Comments: 0

  For those not familiar with the reference in the title, you need to catch up on your Seinfeld reruns. The SEC has charged Phil Falcone [...]

• One Cannot Talk About Supply and Price Without The Third Piece Of the Puzzle: DEMAND
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 26th, 2012 at 3:55 pm, Comments: 0

  Jeff Nielson wrote an awful piece yesterday that I came across via The Reformed Broker.  Just in case you read this poison, you need the [...]

• Not From The Onion! European Vacation Edition
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 25th, 2012 at 10:01 am, Comments: 0

  It’s time once again for readers to pick out which of these stories is from humor satire magazine The Onion.   Click on the links to [...]

• Trading Rule #6: Have A Plan!
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 22nd, 2012 at 10:45 am, Comments: 0

  I coach high school soccer.   My team went through a scoring drought in the middle of the season last year, and finally, in practice one [...]

• Cash Is King – Credit Card Machines Out of Commission
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 21st, 2012 at 1:21 pm, Comments: 0

  I went to the grocery store today – Hannafords in Concord – and there was a youngish sales-girl greeting customers on the way in, informing [...]

• Today Is the Day – Major Stock Market Signal
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 21st, 2012 at 8:14 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 – was the summer solstice.  I’m sure there’s someone out there on the vast Interwebs who will tell you that [...]

• Trending Now
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 20th, 2012 at 4:59 pm, Comments: 0

  Quite a motley list here: I can’t tell which I like better on this list:  “Drinking during pregnancy” or “JC Penney Stock” #ThatsAClownQuestionBro! -KD Share [...]

• UEFA Euro 2012 Rules: Yellow Cards and Extra Time
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 20th, 2012 at 4:54 pm, Comments: 0

  Since it’s quarterfinal time (the elimination round of 8), I figured I’d just remind interested readers of some brief UEFA Euro 2012 rules: 1) Extra [...]

• Microsoft Announces “Surface:” Another Product That Will Not Compete With Apple’s Superior Products
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 18th, 2012 at 8:28 pm, Comments: 0

  So Microsoft’s big announcement today was that they are going to make – wait for it – A TABLET!  HOLY COW!  Revolutionary idea.  I guess [...]

• Niklas Bendtner’s 100,000 Euro Lucky Underwear
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 18th, 2012 at 1:26 pm, Comments: 0

  Denmark’s Niklas Bendtner was fined 100k Euros by UEFA – European Football’s governing body.  Take it away, Times of India: “UEFA last week announced disciplinary [...]

• Abnormal Returns CrowdSourced Blogger Investing Survey
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 17th, 2012 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

  The King of Curation, Tadas @ AbnormalReturns, has put together a great survey of a number of influential financial bloggers and me (get it? self [...]

• The Euro 2012 Funky Tie Breaker Rules
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 16th, 2012 at 5:39 pm, Comments: 0

  So here’s how things stood before today’s Group A games (Russia vs Greece,  Poland vs Czech Republic): Russia  4pts Czech Republic:  3pts Poland 2pts Greece [...]

• St. Louis Summer Tea – Homebrew Batch #15
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 15th, 2012 at 10:54 am, Comments: 0

  I was browsing the forums over at HomeBrewTalk.com, and I came across this interesting recipe from Jsmith82 for what is essentially fermented iced tea.   It’s [...]

• You Can Now Use PayPal at Brick & Mortar Stores – Or At Least At Home Depot
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 15th, 2012 at 9:02 am, Comments: 0

  I found this interesting, even if mostly useless: Details here. -KD Share on StockTwits

• My Chickens’ Future’s So Bright, They Gotta Wear Shades
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 14th, 2012 at 9:42 am, Comments: 0

  With apologies to Timbuk3 for the post title, we’ve entered a new stage of Country Crazy:  sunglasses on our chickens.   But wait, let me explain [...]

• Forget Europe – Bisexual Necrophiliac Penguins Are The Real Threat
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 13th, 2012 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks to reader “Erik” for sending me this Yahoo Trends snapshot from yesterday morning around 10am:   When “Depraved Penguins” tops that motley list, you [...]

• Dear Europe – You’re Doing It Wrong
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 12th, 2012 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

  Look, I haven’t really torn into Spain’s plan to push their fiscal pain down the road to a later date.   When I read all [...]

• On UBS, Facebook, Nasdaq, and Erroneous Orders: A Story From The Good Ol’ Days
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 10th, 2012 at 8:31 pm, Comments: 0

  This whole UBS-Facebook story brought to mind one of my favorite all time stories that my boss used to tell about the old days of [...]

• Phish – Worcester, MA 6/8/2012 – I Feel The Feeling I Forgot
  Posted by kid dynamite on June 9th, 2012 at 7:01 pm, Comments: 0

  My brother-in-law Dan and I took the train from Framingham, MA out to the old Worcester Centrum, now re-christened the “DCU Center.”   Arriving about 2 [...]