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Here are the lyrics:
She don't like her eggs all runny
She thinks crossin' her legs is funny
She looks down her nose at money
She gets it on like the Easter Bunny
She's my baby I'm her honey
I'm never gonna let her go
He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays
I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies
He ain't too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen
He's my baby
And I'm his honey
Never gonna let him go
In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
She thinks all my jokes are corny
Convict movies make her horny
She likes ketchup on her scrambled eggs
Swears like a sailor when shaves her legs
She takes a lickin'
And keeps on tickin'
I'm never gonna let her go.
He's got more balls than a big brass monkey
He's a wacked out werido and a lovebug junkie
Sly as a fox and crazy as a loon
Payday comes and he's howlin' at the moon
He's my baby I don't mean maybe
Never gonna let him go
In Spite of Ourselves
We named that the official song of our 25th anniversary year :)
Wonder how Apple's new investment arm is doing? Even if they are must in Treasurys, well - you guys know what has happened with them.
coreguy, you are right, however
I think that it could be a sign of downage ahead. I do not hold any now, having sold on 6/23 for a small gain on that trade (previously posted here).
If I held any now, I could consider the risks far greater than the reward, and would either sell or hedge in some way. I'd get some protection, that is for sure.
Never have bought puts on Apple before, but have been thinking about it.
Edit - down 1.66 after hours, according to yahoo.
JimisJim: bears watching :). eom
Not a good thing.....particularly getting close to what may be lukewarm iPod news at earnings.
Come to us AAPL, come to us.
FRG - I opened a position it a few days ago. EOM.
With Hank Greenberg banging away - errrr...reporting news about how Apple does business and reports on its businesses, followed by a quarterly report that may a) reveal iPod slowdown there is the possibility of a good entry point....however
Who knows what the second half will bring :). Maybe everyone is the US will be spending all their money trying to keep up with those adjustable rate mortgages and home equity loans - and buying gasoline for the vehicles
I had a 300 baud modem once.
First computer I every messed around on was an Osborne.
Don't feel so old, first one I was 35 years old when I bought my first one. Had my first email address in 1990 - academic bitnet network connected to the mainframe from home or using a dumb terminal at the university.
It was after we had the Mac IIvx that a friend gave me a floppy and told me to take it home and double click on Mosaic. He said that when a "page" came up on the screen to click on a blue word.
Magic I tell you, it was magic.
Computer Ownership history
This sounds like fun:
Bought a Tandy 1000SX in 1987 to write my master's thesis.
Two floppy, 384k of RAM, color monitor, wide carriage daisy wheel printer. Used WordPerfect 4.1
White box put together by a local geek - 386 chip - somewhere around 1989-1990.
Mac IIvx - not too long after the white box
iMac Bondi Blue Rev B - as soon as Rev B happened
17" iLamp ordered on the day the larger monitor was announced.
20" iMac G5 - December 2,2005
You just nailed the reason for the switcher campaigns failing so badly.
Well, you certainly have a point - but that is yesterday's news. Tomorrow's news is that you can switch hardware to Apple without losing the ability to run Windows and all your favorite-comfortable-with programs fast-as-hell. I think that will appeal to one or two buyers more than the switch campaign did.
I ain't shorting, but I am waiting to see the reaction to earnings and whatever information dribbles out then.
Purchase schedules
Me too, tarmar - though sometime this year I will buy a laptop - that will take me to two computers on a replacement schedule rather than the usual one :). In the meantime, I will bring my Dell laptop home from work on weekends, when I think I may want to sit out on the deck and enjoy the combination of nature and net :)
dilleet,
you being a silly smarty-pants now :). I do not have problems finding any book, quotation, location, I need to find. There are a variety of tools available for all those purposes.
dilleet, I do not have an aversion to google programs. My needs are met with programs I like that came with my computer.
I like the Mail app, iPhoto, iTunes, iWeb and I use them. I do not feel a need to spend a lot of time trying out apps that might provide a little more functionality.
Google may have a lot to offer, and I use a wee bit of it, but it is kinda like being at a US supermarket - I don't need 15 different brands of Corn Flakes - just need one that is good enough.
I also don't like loaded up my hard drive with a bunch of stuff, and I know you like to try out a lot of different stuff. Different users, different styles, different needs.
No, I do not jest. iWeb meets my needs just fine without a manual. I have used Google search and a little of that earth thing, but have not had any unfilled needs that led me to look at Google's other products.
iWeb article scared dilleet
I like iWeb. It fulfills my needs, didn't take much to learn what I needed to and there is a lot I could still learn.
The take control of series of books has an iWeb book. Might take some of your fear away :).
bootz, yes, I could do that, but Marfa would be a long commute.
Instead I have been buying over the past couple weeks:
GG, GRS, AUY, SLW, and NG. Have re-established positions there, 50% cash in account.
Worked ok today.
I have GG, NG, AUY, SLW and GRS in my stable. GRS leading the way now - that is GAM.TO for you'se Canadienses out there.
Sold AAPL @ 59.24 - shares that were bought on Wed. for 57.64. eom.
After hours 59.69.
So far so good
Wrote the monkey
Tomm: Best Buy - that news has been out for at least a couple of days now - and this may be a response to that - but I think it is also a response to some of the leaks/news from the supplier firms in Asia.
Lo and Be-hold
AAPL is up this morning. Imagine that :).
tomm: Following a 33% drop from the high, another similar drop would put AAPL at 40. yikes! Why are you buying here?
It is a small position. It could end up being a trade. Vamos ver. I do not think there will be another 33% drop - I was thinking in the 10-20% range. Hopefully not many here held through most of the drop from the January high.
Unlike most who write as though they have a good handle on Apple and AAPL, I post most of my buys and sells here. A few others have also. I would encourage more to do the same.
dilleet, I thought my post was pretty clear. Did you have any specific question about what I wrote?
In the past I have written that I think the past couple of years were Years of iPods. I think the story over the next couple of years will be the Macintoshes - and new products.
iPods still need to do okey-dokey, need to be refreshed, need new content, etc..., but I hope there is a good sized sell-off during a period (this summer) when iPods suck a bit and Macintoshes are just starting to deliver, assuming they do deliver. I think such a sell-off, if it happens, could potentially be a great buying opportunity in AAPL.
That is my current thesis. It is largely unsupported. It may be unsupportable. At 60% cash, I can play it if I choose to.
I opened an AAPL position this morning @57.64 on the chance that the news from Asia is confirmed and provides uppage in Apple. I still think there is the chance that iPod disappointment will create selling pressure come the earnings report, so most of my powder is still dry (that is the correct colloquial expression, isn't it?).
Oh
go AAPL
It is happening
We're just a bunch of feces-flinging monkeys anyway
Holy Cow of Calcutta
It wants more
Quack quack quack
and other cliches AAPLTALK history :).
MacBook shipment stuff from Asia
They really do not specify if they are talking about both MacBooks, but if those numbers are real, it sounds consistent with a strategy of waiting until after earnings are reported in July to buy AAPL. That may be an imperfect strategy, but it is the one I plan to follow. If the earnings surprise and AAPL goes up, I'll proabably buy a partial position. If earnings disappoint the street and we get a sell-off - it could be tempting to back up the truck at that point. Will be interesting to see what happens. I report what I do in regard to Apple here.
bought GDX @ 33.95 before leaving for work this morning. eom
Works with iTunes?
POG may have been up early, but it is not now - too early to tell anything about tomorrow anyway. I'm headed out of town for the day and have moved my portfolio to an easy to sleep and travel on stance in any event.
Have fun out there.
Since I have no idea what the frack flock is,
I guess I don't have to worry about it *grin*
75% cash going into the weekend. eom.
I'm 75% cash now - have some GPXM, GG and some DIS - in order of position size. Sold GDX @ 34.36, was in @ 32.98 on June 16. Was at a meeting from 3 Eastern time, have not looked at how things ended.
Apple Pricing
With decreases in the price of Intel CPUs being used by Apple, seems reasonable that Apple could at least do a combination of the following:
1) Pass the savings onto customers,
2) Upgrade the standard configuration - and I am specifically thinking in ways that will improve the user experience - most notably by going to 1 gig of RAM as the standard configuration.
Bootz, cash is good
I'm at 60% cash now in stock account, 72% in mutual fund account.
Sold AAPL core @ 57.55 in pre-mkt session. I think the probability of a good buying opp this summer has increased.
Yes dilleet, that was my point exactly.
We cannot apply USA liberal, labor union standards to the whole world. Hell, we can't even apply them to the USA. Oregon does have a state minimun wage that is far higher than the Federal one, but still falls way freaking short of being a living wage.
Ron, paid up member of the AFT
Some call them sweatshops
Others call them opportunity shops.
Depends on perspective I guess. We western white folks are good at judging things by our standards.
Stopped myself out on 50% of it at 5.95. Wish I had dumped it all *grin*
I tending to agree with those who assert we've gone into a cyclical bear market, and have scrambled to cash, mostly. I have played my mutual fund account very well for the bear scenario - my stock account less so, but have held on to some gains. When compared to general indices, I have done real well. When compared to the portfolio high, not so well.
Not buying any bear funds, though. Gonna stick with money market funds for now.
Q4 is when I am thinking there could be an upturn.
Thinking there should be a couple of good quarters
Could be fanstasy land for all I know :).
up a bit in pre-market, but we need more than a bit
I am still playing it like there will be the mother of all buying opportunities this summer. Don't know if there will be, but......