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Thanx bedwards. Perhaps their touted PR firm can use professional leverage and/or contacts and get a copy for onto some web page somewhere so that it can be read by all of us. I want to read the article itself. I'm just kind of ornery that way. In the great tradition of Doubting Thomas, I want to personally stick my hands in the wounds, thank you very much.
Imperial Whazoo
Thats not the article. Thats the article about the article. What I'm interested in is the original text and/or link to the PDF or html of the publication... not the report on yahoo or anyplace else. So... how about it? Any link/pdf.text cut-n-pasted?
To be absolutely clear, since somehow it seems to not have been thusfar: to quote the yahoo news blurb "page 44, within the Journal's coverage of small hydro technologies. The article, entitled ``Commanding Attention,''"
That is explicitly the question.
Thanx
Imperial Whazoo
Is there a link? A PDF? Any chance of getting it posted for everyone's consumption?
TIA
Imperial Whazoo
Hey Eat -
OT: (But I think relevant) You are often posting O&G pricing links. I appreciate it. So, meditate on the import of this link, which I think is relevant:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?siteid=mktw&guid={0A0C6E95-95CD-4D37-8F33-B26E5...
GLTY
Imperial Whazoo
Thanx wave -
But please tell me... what the heck is that link to the jpg about? Am I daft and dense? I must admit, I don't get it.
Imperial Whazoo
I think Hydroslortter is going to emerge in Grimes as Skip's "new" name. And I think they are almost through renegotiating leases in the E. Texas deal. I have no inside info about whether they actually are splittin out an ORI and thus not diluting.... but thats my opinion. Also. we will hear a progress /success PR out of WWNG soon (just my opinion).
Also, I believe the pace of work in Grimes has a lot to do with Skip wanting to change the names on each well he does, which he is doing to try to camo his progress because he knows that he will have to negotiate new leases on each well that has been plugged & abandoned for over 15 years... deliberately trying NOT to attract attention to his progress, thus making the next lease & then the next progressively more expensive.
This is my opinion of what is going on that is holding announcements up and making us all gnash out teeth.
Imperial Whazoo
Code till it hurts!! I can remember New Years eve, dressed in a tux, still at the office trying to punch out a code fix, so I could join the party! Code on, S'ware engineers.
Spooz is freedom in spades!!
Imperial Whazoo
Thanx allie. Keep it between the two white lines!!
Imperial Whazoo
I see no reason to waste my time. Whats that Bible phrase... casting your pearls before swine? Whats the point. I'm too busy actually making a living day trading to try to persuade someone who has so little sympathy for the dreams of the common man that he spends his days tearing hope out of evreyman's heart.
Neither you nor I knows whether Spooz will succeed, but it is a brilliant idea. I want to have a tool on which to build the trading system I can't find elsewhere. I read somewhere that the first skyscraper to be built in New York City was the Woolworth building. Woolworth's five and dime.... theres an idea for its day: the genius of the idea was the understanding that there is more money in the 5 and 10 cent items the ordinary man buys than in the big dollar items only the rich can afford. The paradox of capitalism is that, by giving ordinary men the maximum power to selfishly pursue their own selfish dream, the greatest collective wealth is the inevitable byproduct... society on the whole is richer where the greatest bottom up freedom exists as opposed to where the greatest top down power structure exists.
You guys argue with whats his name. I'm out making money. I've ideas to build into money. If your genuinely interested, lets talk in a friendly way amongst ourselves and see what everyman can build on his own. Quit being drawn into chasing rabbits. Thats all I've got to say about it.... that and don't cast your pearls before swine.
GLTY
Imperial Whazoo
Buddy Rich didn't hold the drum stick the right way. Jimmi Hendrix strung his guitar wrong. Somebody once told me that the chords the group America played their old 1970's stuff are unique.
Give ordinary people the freedom to build their own future and those of us who try may just do better than ever imagined.
I despise the formulaic systems that are mechanical. Its like listening to a computer play a Beethoven sonata and then listening to a man weep all over the keys and chords.
I can't say what others feel. But I know what I want. I'd rather try to swim to shore myself than be told I'me not capable of even trying.
Spooz is programmable and the language it offers is the programming language of the common man. Tap into the investors who want the tools to build their own trading system their own way. Most folks want to be told how to do investing, but am I the only one who thinks this is conceptually flawed? Why on earth would it be even a conceptual possibility for there to be a "system" that you could buy and plug in and make a million? I've invented two really cool indicators. Just try to get me to tell you how they work... NOT!! The only really successful system you'll ever have is the one you build for your own use. And thats all there is to it. It wraps itself to the contours of your mind. The idea that you could use VBA to customize your own solution is a mind blowing idea. Its the hole in the garden wall.
Spooz is freedom in spades. Any questions?
Imperial Whazoo
Thanx Wing -
I'm really serious about following up as a group & individually.
I'm tired of all the attacks. Thats one reason I decided to post. I got tired of examining the lint in my naval.
Spooz is a brilliant idea. Spooz is freedom in spades. Because it is programmable in a language that millions use daily, it is freedom for the ordinary man that allows him to compete.
There is a book out right now about, of all things: the spider & the starfish. Sounds silly but its not... what its really about is the fact that, if you cut off a spider's leg, he has one less leg; if you cut off a limb of a starfish, it grows another starfish. In the book, Google & the internet & Yahoo are starfish. Linux is starfish. iHub is starfish. Spooz is starfish. Tradestation, Newsweek, the old political parties, IBM, would all be spiders. The old corporate model is the spider. The starfish model is the winner of the future because it empowers users. Each starfish has the power to grow others, and given the freedom, thats exactly what they do. Spooz is stzrfish freedom in spades. I've the name of the book somewhere.... I'll post it when I come across it.
Anyway, what I encourage allie & you & everyone else to do is to go kick the tires on stockfetcher this weekend. Send me your email in a PM and I'll email you some of the scripts I've developed so you can get a leg up on understanding what I was talking about to Paul.
Spooz needs to brand itself successfully. A community such as stockfetcher is ready made for Spooz because the guys on it are dedicated to the idea that is at the heart of Spooz. Its like ducks in water. So, its a perfect marraige. A rich coral reef of starfish, as it were.
Thanx etc...
Imperial whazoo
I thought the board might like some good news.
The following is an email and its reply that I sent to Paul on 10/31. The only change is my name & email address, which I prefer to keep private. As regarding whether I should post this, I emailed Paul and told him of my intention to do so, to obtain comments from interested parties who might inquire of Spooz as regards this, thereby indicating interest and constructing (perhaps) a case for implementation of this idea (or something similar). In a separate email this morning, I told him that I was going to do so unless he emailed me back, asking me not to. As of this moment, my Outlook is open and I've not heard back. Since most of the day is gone, I've decided to go ahead & post it before the weekend. If you guys-n-gals think it is worth following up on, contact them Monday to see if it was in fact discussed in Monday's sales meeting. I expect it will be and, if they spend any time with stockfetcher this weekend, they will understand my idea. (So will you, too, if you do too, by the way).
Enough said. I konw exactly what I intend to do when Spooz is available Q1 2007. I'm going to do it myself. I'm going to design the trading solution I've needed all these years. Spooz is freedom in spades... for Everyman!!. Period.
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From: XXXXX XXXXXXXXX [mailto:imperialwhazoo@xxxxxxx.xxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:33 PM
To: pstrickland@spooz.com
Subject: New and elaborated Everyman idea
Paul –
I hope you don’t mind my contacting you directly. I know you are busy and I’ll keep it brief, but I too am busy so I trust you will take a moment to consider my comments here.
I am XXXXXX XXXXXXX, or as I’m known on iHub, the Imperial Whazoo. I’m the guy who did the Everyman dance for the iHub board for the first time. To place myself into some kind of framework of reference, I’m a professional daytrader and I trade on AIQ, where I’ve built some rudimentary tools using their crummy little language. Prior to becoming a daytrader, I ran a full service computer consulting firm specializing in high end document management solutions. Put into layman’s terms, I helped companies automate the process of going paperless. All told, I’ve probably written a million lines of database code.
That introduction out of the way, I think I have a pretty good idea for you and your marketing folks to pursue. It is truthfully said, I think, that most writers are merely writing about themselves. Accordingly, I want to reference my own habits as the type of everyman you need to sell to. This is not being done just because I’m vain… I really think what I’d like to see would stimulate sales for you. I think it is appropriate or I wouldn’t bother you.
I use quite extensively a site that is like no other… you may or may not be aware of it (you may even use it): www.stockfetcher.com. At $8.95 a month, there is, in my opinion, no better buy and no better tool for the everyman user to whom you need to sell. Like most sites whereon I post, I’m ImperialWhazoo on it, although I don’t share my stockfetcher scripts with others there because the site blogs are already too mature for me to break into and be a participant without expending an unrealistic amount of my time. What I do there is test ideas. I’ve invented one I call my diffyy and another I call my diffyt and, to be frank, they are awesome.
In a nutshell, here’s my idea: first, if you are unfamiliar, join and explore stockfetcher. If you go to the index tab on the main screen, you will be taken to a list of over 100 “verbs” that you can combine and manipulate to make custom screens. My idea comes in three flavors, all of which are basically the same and all of which devolve to one simple main theme: you need to tap into the stockfetcher user group and, by doing so in the right way, you will supercharge awareness with a user base custom designed and already predisposed to use your Fractalz tool.
As I see it, Fractalz can sit in one of three places at stockfetcher: (A) In front of the stockfetcher, (B) as a verb amongst the other 100 someodd verbs or (C) as a receiving list at the tail end of the stockfetcher screens that the user create. I suppose you’d give stockfetcher users a huge discount and you’d have to pay the stockfetcher owners in some kind of marketing/licensing scheme. I’m only pushing the general idea out at this time for you to think on. Details and whether it is even possible are both open questions.
(A) Lets say you want to tap into the already warmed up users of stockfetcher by serving as a pre-stockfetcher tool. In (A), users of Fractalz could generate lists and feed them to the stockfetcher users for incorporation into the stockfetcher customizations they each design for themselves.
(B) The second approach would be to license Fractalz (somehow… may not even be possible) as a verb amongst the others that are available to stockfetcher users. I like this idea the least because it’s hard for me to envision how you could scale Fractalz down to a single verb, but it might be possible. I’d expect you to streamline Fractalz with assignable variables and then this verb would be usable just like the other verbs. I least favor this idea.
(C) The third idea is to have Fractalz be an add-on feature, probably at a significant discount given that stockfetcher costs $8.95 a month. If you could coordinate it so that stockfetcher users could export the end results of their custom screens into Fractalz, then I think you would have a real winner here. This way, they would not have to modify one thing about their existing habits of use. They could back test to their hearts content and then export it to Fractalz for forward testing. This is my favorite idea. I think you would have to private label it and brand it to stockfetcher so that it does not damage your TD Ameritrade relationship, but it would give stockfetcher users something totally unique and exactly in line with the very concept of the stockfetcher product itself. You see, stockfetcher allows people to build their own black box trading system for next to nothing a month. It enables them to create a strategy and to back test it in a short period of time. If you could partner or JV with these folks, whose users are already sold on the idea of building their own black box system, then I think your user awareness and your sales would skyrocket.
The thing you bring to the table (assuming idea 3, which I favor) is that you would give stockfetcher users something to die for: not only could they back test (their current level of functionality), they could also forward test. In a nutshell, Fractalz is the perfect add-on that taps directly into a community of experienced users who are already adept at the idea that underlies your product and who are ready made because you bring them something they could not get elsewhere…. Forward testing as an add-on to their existing back testing. All you need to do is figure out how to sell the owners of stockfetcher on the idea… and put together a cohesive idea of exactly what levels of product stockfetcher buyers/co-licensees would be using. If you can create brand awareness in this experienced and tool-hungry user group, you could instantly have a base of excited users upon which to build.
I hope the idea isn’t a waste of your time. It’s offered because its something I’d readily subscribe to myself, and having been a stockfetcher user for a long time, I am fairly certain you’d find their users to be an absolutely perfect fit for your marketing efforts.
Good luck to you,
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX
The Imperial Whazoo (and Everyman)
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Mr. XXXXXXXX,
I have been inundated lately so I apologize in advance for my brief response. I have forwarded your plan to Darryl Dennis for evaluation and recommendation, but that’s not the important part. The important part is that I have intelligent, external investor/advisors that can provide substance; who can communicate intelligent ideas for creating shareholder value?
This plan will be discussed at our Monday morning status meeting with marketing.
Thank you for your letter.
Best Regards,
Paul
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I feel compelled to comment on Tradestation:
I am a programmer, by the way, and I've spent a lot of time on various platforms such as Tradestation. I don't use Tradestation because there is a tradeoff that makes no sense: it enslaves you. Spooz frees you because it is VBA. It is idiocy to enslave yourself to a proprietary solution. The thing about Excel is that it is programmable in Microsoft VBA. There are thousands upon thousands of extensions you can buy worldwide. It is VB/VBA. That is what its all about in the programming world. In VBA, you are not on planet Zargon having to plod along in a proprietary environment. In my enthusiasm to elaborate, I got up from my trading area and went over to my bookshelf and pulled down two manuals: Microsoft's "Excel Language Reference" and the "Excel 97 Developer's Kit" manual. Its all there: Objects, Methods, Collections, and so on. They are all there. Looking up there at my bookshelf, there are dozens of other manuals: COM & COM+, ADO, VB Controls, FoxPro Connectivity, Oracle & VBA.... and on and on and on. There is no limit to what I will be able to do using Spooz. Spooz is freedom: with it, I can create whatever I dream of wheras with Tradestation or AIQ or any of the other platforms (believe me... I've looked at them all... Spooz is the only truly freeing product out there), I am always entangled in a proprietary solution of some kind; locked in. Spooz is freedom in spades. Period.
GLTY
Push this idea if it resonates with you all. I offer it in a spirit of hopefulness. Remember, we are all Everyman and Spooz is freedom in spades. Period.
Imperial Whazoo
So, mark, to apply this , tell me what
the following means:
Symbol GGRN has 123 shares traded today (its 9:32 here). What does it mean to the rest of us?
Imperial Whazoo
just replying to you. You posted
about some other stock (I'm too busy trading to chase your post down, you know the one). You said something I'd never heard before about the MMs chewing up folks because it needed 3 MMs or something to that effect. Now, rather than corner you on it, cause I really thought you had veered out of your lane a bit, I thought I'd post you and try to get you to elaborate. If you didn't mean it, you shouldn't have posted it the way you did and if you had something buttressing your comment, my posts were your opportunity to elaborate. I just had never heard of it being a problem, so I posted you on it to give you a chance to cover your ass rather than to pin you to the mat in any kind of offensive way.
I figure you misstated or some such, so just drop it. I was just trying to be kind and open, rather than to attack you in any way. So, just drop it. It was probably just a brain fart on your part.
GLTY
Imperial Whazoo
Sorry Billiam, about the double post.
It wasn't my fault. Some kind of board burp, I think.
Imperial Whazoo
So, if our Belgian friend is right and a name change is just around the corner, your saying its not standard operating proceedure to see a bad set of trading days follow immetiately thereon... us getting chewed up by the MMs etcetera... Your post regarding the other company yesterday can be taken as a noting of the unusual.... right?
Imperial Whazoo
Yeh... glad to hear I wasn't the only one.
I mean, was yesterday on iHub bad for everyone else? I finally got back on and expected some chatter about down servers but narry a word.... until your post.
Did they get hacked? Anyone know?
Imperial Whazoo
Even so, can I be your bookie?
Have I got a deal for you.... LOL
Even so, can I be your bookie?
Have I got a deal for you.... LOL
hey eatme - do you know for sure that this
always happens with a name/symbol change? If so, doesn't that necessarily mean we will all get chewed up by the MMs for a day or two on BIGN's name/symbol change?
Explain exactly what we can expect if this happens.... name change announced, followed by inability to trade for how long? Please elaborate. TIA.
Imperial whazoo
Hey billiam, do you realize you gave a total of 115% in you odds? Listen man, remind me not to bet with you in Vegas!! LOL
Imperial Whazoo
Well, another thing they could be doing
that would explain a lot of the delays is they could be renegotiating the division orders. For example, lets say East Texas Oil owned a .875 WI. Well, one way to pay them would be to buy the leases so that BIGN/Royal/whoever now owns the WI. However, the RI portion would still be in the hands of the royalty owners. So, suppose they wanted to give East Texas Oil on ongoing royalty as a commitment forward looking. the way they could do it is they could cut them in on what is called an Override, which would typically come out of the WI portion. So, lets say they gave a .075 ORI on every well. BIGN/Royal/whoever would then have the .80 WI (which bears all the operating expenses), and a royalty (the .075 ORI) would be cut out of their WI. That way, the existing royalty owners would still get paid on the same interest as before, the East Texas Oil company would get a royalty (non-dilutive income stream based on production), and the operator would not need to issue warrants and diluting shares.
Anyway, such a thing could be the hold up on the entier deal because it would take a bunch of time to get all the new DOs cut and filed. Basically, if this is the deal, it would go a long way towards explaining the delays.... and some Tyler lawyer would be making a chunk of change, too!!
Just an alternate idea that could explain things and offers an alternative to the idea that the only way to do this is to issue bunches of warrants and such.
Imperial Whazoo
Hey wave -
Now that you're revitalized, does this mean we get the bouncy babe back on your posts? I vote yes!!
Imperial Whazoo
Thanx man -
So you're sure its the same guy? And, anyway, it can't be construed as bad news now can it, that he's digging into hid pocket to go for more shares.
Imperial Whazoo
Whats up satch? Is something on for the top of the hour?
Imperial Whazoo
You know, this is the yahoo link
to the Frankfurt exchange listing for BIGN. If this guy is Dutch, is there any chance there might be some trading there? Hasn't been thusfar, to my knowledge.
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=v1&s=d9g.f&m=a
How the heck did you find that reference to BIGN, the one that got deleted and the one that related to it that did not? You must have been watching that stock for other reasons.... or is there a relationship on some deeper level between these two seemingly unrelated stocks?
Just curious...
Imperial Whazoo
On the topic of oil prices,
I get a mid day email each day (one of many, let me assure you) and today it contained this link. Thought it might interest folks.
http://www.mptrader.com/markets.php
Imperial Whazoo
americano & wing -
Yes, I know, but my excuse is that I'm in the process of switching one of my accounts to direct access trading. Some things, like this penny, are not tradable due to cost on direct access, so I intend to keep my TD Ameritrade open for such instances. But, I'm also planning a move to a direct access platform. So, I'm going to be taking on a huge new learning curve, I fear. The last thing in the world I need is another new idea to have to juggle at the same time as I'm attempting to become adept at using a direct access platform.
So, thats why I pursued finding out if others could share their experience with me and everyone else on the board. I simply can not take it on right now and thats all there is to it. If, on the other hand, somebody could share their experience with it, I can not begin to tell you how helpful that would be.
Imperial Whazoo
Darn... I was hoping it was a personal use story.
I'm intending to try it, but if they keep lowering the price, who's going to rush in an lock in a price higher than they might later get?
Imperial Whazoo
This is your real screen, in use, as it were, right??
Tell the board about it.
I'd like to be informed on what you've learned so far in using it. And I'm sure others would too.
Imperial Whazoo
Hey spiras -
Thanx etcetera. Nice dig. Did you know that they've now deleted the post? I clicked on it (2nd one) and it showed to be a deleted post. So, please expand (if you can recall) on it.... what did it say?
And, BTW, doesn't it seem odd it would have been deleted?
Imperial Whazoo
What kind of monkeys?
yeah, cause if it the year from when trading, we could, at this rate, be waiting till hell freezes over.
Imperial Whazoo
I guess I'm daft. What does it tell you?
Imperial Whazoo
whats their symbol?
Why 10:49? And is that East or Central?
Yeah, well don't beat yourself up too badly.
I already held IHDR and my daffy diffy said buy it... and also ANDW & BKHM. So, trying to be intelligent, I did not add to my IHDR position at the diffy... I took positions in both the others. Guess what? They are both break even and IHDR is up 15% for the day. Yessirreebob... spreading that ole risk around sure was smart! (LOL)
Oops... make that 18% as I post here!! Go IHDR, run up that next leg!
Imperial Whazoo
Hey, not to be critical, but
I sure hope LA Research is more accurate in their testing than they are in their spelling. Their home page has at least two obvious spelling errors (LOL!!)
Imperial Whazoo
Tomorrow ... tomorrow... there's always tomorrow... tomorrow's my birthday day... (to the melody of a bad b'way song)
Man, I gotta get a life! Not singing any more today....
Not singing any more today..
Repeat out loud.... Not singing any more today....
There, that ougta do it.
Sit down. Shut up. And trade, Whaz baby. Even the dog's embarrased!
Imperial Whazoo
To be sung aloud so even your dog looks ashamed, to the traditional happy birthday tune... Here we go now... everybody sing!!
Go B I G N
Go B I G N
We want you to do well
Go B I G N
(And much much more....)
Happy birthday!!
Imperial Whazoo