Archive for September, 2012

• Vringo – Google Patent Maneuvering Nears Fever Pitch
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 27th, 2012 at 10:27 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Today, $VRNG sold off, prompting a press release from The Company as follows: “This afternoon, Vringo’s wholly-owned subsidiary, I/P Engine, Inc. received [...]

• Alcohol Enemas? Maybe The Mayans Were Right…
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 27th, 2012 at 12:59 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Sorry, folks, I don’t write the news, I just react to it… From CNN.com: “The University of Tennessee says it has suspended [...]

• College Kids These Days: A Bunch of Cheap, Vomitous Whores
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 27th, 2012 at 11:46 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Don’t be mad at me for the post title – it comes out of a quote from a recent NY Times article: [...]

• Max Pain – A Key Trading Concept
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 27th, 2012 at 8:45 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits First off, please note that this post is about the point of maximum pain one can endure in a trading/investment position.   It [...]

• Bulldog on a Trampoline
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 24th, 2012 at 2:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Nope – the post title isn’t some fancy markets analogy – this is just a wicked awesome video of a bulldog jumping [...]

• Homebrew Batch #20: Honey Basil Ale
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 23rd, 2012 at 3:56 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits After harvesting massive amounts of basil from our garden last week, I had the idea of making a beer utilizing some of [...]

• Google Gives A Roadmap To Their Defense Strategy In The Vringo Patent Suit
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 20th, 2012 at 9:25 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Last week, Google filed a motion for Summary Judgment in the Vringo case.   This docket finally hit the free Justia dockets this [...]

• Kid Dynamite Goes Analog!
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 20th, 2012 at 8:28 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I found it funny that on the very day that I read this Wired article about Alton Brown’s “analog” Tweets, Stocktwits Godfather [...]

• “May You Live In Interesting Times” Chart Of The Year Candidate: Questcor Pharmaceuticals
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 19th, 2012 at 5:52 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Questcor Pharmaceuticals’ ($QCOR: no positions) intraday chart today is quite a doozy: Cliff notes:  Questcor has a drug called Achtar.   Large health [...]

• Anatomy Of A Rumor: Einhorn and Lululemon Edition
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 18th, 2012 at 5:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits So here’s the situation: this morning, the WSJ published an article about how if hedge fund manager David Einhorn so much as [...]

• Men At Work Meets Ben Bernanke
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 17th, 2012 at 12:17 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Well, so, this post title is kinda ironic, isn’t it – given the Fed’s failure to fulfill its employment mandate…  Anyway, I [...]

• Step Into My Dreams: Roberto Luongo Edition
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 16th, 2012 at 8:57 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Yeah, this is kinda a weird one, but since I’m huge in Canada, I’m sure some of my readers will get a [...]

• Did Bernanke Forget That Buying Houses For “Return” Is What Got Us Into This Mess In The First Place?
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 13th, 2012 at 8:32 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Quantitative Easing blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever. What kills me is Bernanke’s statements in the Q&A from the press conference following [...]

• Caesars Palace Bets on America’s Continued Desire To Stuff Our Gullets With Unlimited Amounts and Varieties of Food
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 13th, 2012 at 10:49 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits The Big Show forwarded me this one: “Las Vegas — already famous for some of the most lavish, eye-popping and belt-busting buffets out [...]

• Nothing Else Matters
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 12th, 2012 at 9:47 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits With respect to Metallica: Nothing Else Matters… Here is Yahoo’s Trending Topics from 9:47pm on 9/12/2012.  NO ONE can say that we [...]

• Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Amazon’s New Kindle Fire HD (But Were Afraid To Ask)
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 12th, 2012 at 8:53 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I own the original Kindle Fire, but since I’m not an A-list tech blogger, I have not seen their new Kindle Fire [...]

• Should Demand For Burritos and Yoga Clothing Be Positively or Negatively Correlated?
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 10th, 2012 at 11:31 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Watching Friday’s RISK-ON orgy of market action, I was struck by two names on my radar:  Chipotle ($CMG – no positions) which [...]

• Homebrew Batch #19 – Apple Crisp Ale
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 9th, 2012 at 11:01 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits On Saturday I brewed up a 2 gallon batch of Brooklyn Brew Shop’s Apple Crisp Ale.   I uploaded the recipe to Hopville, [...]

• Politics II
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 9th, 2012 at 9:08 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Since we did the RNC version last week… Here’s the Daily Show on the DNC: 1) DNC Voice Vote To Change Platform [...]

• Latest Sprott Offering Proves Paper and Physical Gold Prices Are Not Decoupling Yet
  Posted by kid dynamite on September 8th, 2012 at 8:23 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits We’ve been through this before, but things can change, so it’s always a good idea to check and see if perhaps maybe, [...]