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  • The Most Exciting 8 Seconds of My Night
    Posted by on May 20th, 2013 at 8:49 am, Comments: 0

    Sorry to disappoint my readers who were hoping this was a post about premature ejaculation.   It’s not. This also isn’t a post about bull-riding, where [...]

  • The Kid’s Still Got It
    Posted by on May 18th, 2013 at 11:46 am, Comments: 0

    I know what you’re thinking – KidDynamitesWorld has kinda trailed off lately… or maybe that’s just what I’m thinking looking at the blog traffic.  The [...]

  • Is Anyone Surprised That Fish McBites Suck?
    Posted by on May 14th, 2013 at 1:06 pm, Comments: 0

    On my way back from New Orleans last week I had time for lunch at BWI airport in Baltimore.   The fast food offerings included the [...]

  • Poker and Trading – Birds of a Feather
    Posted by on May 12th, 2013 at 8:29 am, Comments: 0

    warning – there’s some meta-rambling in this post… There was a period of time where I played poker “professionally” in the sense that it was [...]

  • Matt Kemp: Respect
    Posted by on May 10th, 2013 at 9:35 am, Comments: 0

    Via the L.A. Times: “He had just made the final out in a city where his name is booed, his jersey is reviled, and his [...]

  • The Difference Between Women and Men: Dog Poop Edition
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 9:52 am, Comments: 0

    I just realized why our new foster dog was acting funny last night.   Nikko is normally like velcro – he follows you everywhere – but [...]

  • You Can Not Make This Stuff Up
    Posted by on May 7th, 2013 at 7:08 pm, Comments: 0

    File under “Not From The Onion” or “Are You Fucking Kidding Me?” via Bloomberg: “President Barack Obama vowed to “exponentially step up our game” to [...]

  • Cut Punters – Jon Stewarts Skewers Congress on the Sequester
    Posted by on May 5th, 2013 at 5:43 pm, Comments: 0

    This is Congress at its worst.  Blame blame blame.   Excuses excuses excuses.   The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c [...]

  • A Classic Homebrew Error: Forgot To Add Priming Sugar!
    Posted by on April 29th, 2013 at 2:31 pm, Comments: 0

    There are a number of common “disasters” that befall homebrew noobs, like the famous “grommet popped out and fell into my wort” situation that I [...]

  • WYNN Q1 2013 Earnings Call Tidbits
    Posted by on April 26th, 2013 at 9:53 am, Comments: 0

    As has become a custom on these pages, I’m going to pull the tidbits from Steve Wynn’s ($WYNN: no positions) quarterly earnings call which I [...]

  • Why Won’t Bernanke Be at Jackson Hole?
    Posted by on April 25th, 2013 at 2:59 pm, Comments: 0

    You may have heard that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be missing this year’s Jackson Hole Symposium, described by Bloomberg as “the central bank’s [...]

  • Robin van Persie Super Goal vs. Aston Villa
    Posted by on April 22nd, 2013 at 5:54 pm, Comments: 0

    Find me a better goal from this season:   Whoa mama.  Now, although I play quite a bit of soccer, I’m not what one would [...]

  • Kmart Viral Video: I Just Shipped My Pants
    Posted by on April 19th, 2013 at 8:48 am, Comments: 0

    I found this funny… see what they did there? -KD disclosure: no positions in $SHLD Share on StockTwits

  • When Your Precious Metals Blogger Doesn’t Understand How ETFs Work…
    Posted by on April 17th, 2013 at 6:03 pm, Comments: 0

    One cannot speak intelligently about the metals markets these days when one does not understand how exchange traded funds work.  $GLD for gold and $SLV [...]

  • Free Rooster Cold Call
    Posted by on April 14th, 2013 at 3:14 pm, Comments: 0

    Friday night my wife and I went out in the big-time partying city* of Concord, NH to celebrate my birthday with 3 other couples and [...]

  • Bitcoin As A Metaphor For Market Structure Philosophy
    Posted by on April 11th, 2013 at 3:47 pm, Comments: 0

    this turned into kinda a bizarro philosophical market structure meta-post.  but anyway… I’ve deliberately avoided writing a post about Bitcoin because, well, I’m not nearly [...]

  • Rumors of Herbalife Rumors
    Posted by on April 11th, 2013 at 3:39 pm, Comments: 0

    I returned home today to find that Herbalife ($HLF – no positions) had spiked on “rumors of possibly going private.”  After a little digging, a [...]

  • Why is Eric Sprott Selling PSLV Shares Fast and Furiously?
    Posted by on April 8th, 2013 at 4:18 pm, Comments: 0

    Regular readers of this blog are no strangers to the slick trading Eric Sprott exhibited in his own Physical Silver Trust ($PSLV: no positions).  Sprott [...]

  • Homebrew Batch #28 – Cream of Three Crops Ale
    Posted by on April 6th, 2013 at 1:14 pm, Comments: 0

    Astute readers will notice that I skipped over Batch #27… That’s because I re-brewed my smoked porter with some slight variations for batch #27 – [...]

  • “You’re Absolutely Right!” Announcing a New Blog Service
    Posted by on April 1st, 2013 at 1:45 pm, Comments: 0

    In the past, here at Kid Dynamite’s World, I’ve spent most of my pixel-energy debunking falsehoods that I read elsewhere, or explaining the nuances of [...]