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Roni, Those Groovy Man !!! days are long gone man !!!
According to my real time quote provider, they are close by.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky
Go AAPL :). How far away can the 60's be?
How long?
As long as they are paying for the copies of OS X, I don't reckon I would complain a whole lot. Talking way small numbers here, in the general scheme of things here, aren't we?
And buying iLife
He is like the lottery - read for entertainment purposes only. eom.
The Mogambo Guru
I don't know if any of you have ever read this guy, but he sure is entertaining economics writer - I guess you could call him that :.
Here is a snippet and a link
-Total Fed Credit did not appreciably change last week, up a mere $562 million, which is chump change when you have been watching TFC shooting up by a few billion per freaking week for years and years, especially since 1997, which is, for you Mogambo scholars, a special year for me, as clinical records indicate that 1997 was when I officially entered Permanent Mogambo Panic Mode (PMPM), thanks to Alan Greenspan and his horrible Federal Reserve moron buddies suddenly starting to create explosive, monumental amounts of money and credit around the clock, which they have not stopped doing yet, nine freaking years later.
As Sprott Asset Management wrote, "For those keeping track, M3 money supply is up 50% since the beginning of the decade, and has doubled since the beginning of 1997. Alan Greenspan has been a money printing speed demon. Before 1997 it took fourteen years for the money supply to double. Since then it has taken only nine; and if the rate of the past month is any indication, it will double again in four years."
So, money and credit were not being created willy-nilly as much in the last couple of weeks, which is a nice change of pace for those of us who understand how excess money and credit is what fuel booms, and how booms lead to busts, and how busts lead to business slowdowns, and business slowdowns mean relatives getting laid off, and then they come over here crying and pleading and whining and wanting me to pay back the money I owe them, and I laugh so much that I get a sore throat. But mostly I am despondent at the prospects.
My mood is elevated somewhat, as is yours, I am sure, by plans for the big celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday celebration this Friday, the 27th of January. On that glorious day we will all again spend time listening to the music of the greatest and most phenomenal composer in the history of music, eating German pork products, and drinking German beer until we puke. Ahhh! Music appreciation at its finest!
But Mozart's birthday is only one day of happiness, and then it is back to the coming recession/depression, which will be particularly ugly and misery-laden this time, as the unfortunate side of brutal reality (USOBR) is that the misery of the subsequent bust (M) pretty much equals the fun (F) of the prior boom, as in the timeless equation, M = F. And how much fun was the boom? Well, according to everything I read, see, or hear, it was the biggest freaking boom in recorded history. From there, it is a short hop to all-consuming fear, a left turn down Panic Alley, a U-turn onto Screaming Hysteria Lane, and then you arrive at the Mogambo Bunker Of Ultimate Dread (MBOUD).
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/daughty/daughty012506.html
I am not too excited about the early reporting
that is trying to nail jello to a board. Of course, I no longer have huge positions (for me) in AAPL, and I am confident that what I do have will do well by a year from now.
I may be near 80 cash in the IRAs by the middle of February - won't know for another week or so. Part of the 20% invested will be that Apple core.
sinclap: I think they should release iLife 06 on the win/pc to wet their appetite.
I'm not sure. You think they should spin off software and make it a cross-OS app? Maybe put out a 60 day free trial on windows and then tell them they gotta buy a Mac?
I know iWeb is pretty slick, but I hope some of the stuff I'd like to do is just stuff I don't know how to yet.
Interesting perceptions of Apple products
In the long run, it does not matter much what folks like the one who penned that piece think or put out on whatever site that was on. It matters some, but not much.
If Apple puts out pro level products that are dogs, the pros won't buy them. If Apple puts out products that are useful to pros and prosumers, then they will buy them.
It is pretty frigging simple
OT: This green energy etf (PBW) is doing quite nicely.
Another wonderful day in the markets after a not so great week
Five of the top 8 at the Apple store
are high margin software or Apple Care items. Two are iPods.
iLife 06 is in first place.
DIS and PIXR
I went ahead and sold at 59.19 this morning. If I want Disney I'll have to do a bunch of studying on it instead of backing into to it, assuming a deal happens(ed).
Nice 5% pick up in a very short time frame.
OT this is kinda cool
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Might be a good day to sell PIXR
Unless you're interested in holding Disney :), Caveat, my PIXR position was bought for a short term trade, and it is up 6%. Might be time for me to take the money and run. Different strokes for different folks
OT: thanks KCMW
It is a small start - and actually plan to do more writing, some of which may or may not end up on that blog. In my wildest dreams, getting paid for some of the writing or carving out a little part-time gig in Mexico might become possible.
Certainly learning more about a new country and culture again should keep things energized. There is the possibility, though, of more changes down the road or of a move south being a part-time thing.
The possibilities are very open and broad.
My preference would be for Jobs to not serve on the DIS board.
Where he would have a fiduciary duty to Disney shareholders that could easily conflict with his duty to Apple shareholders.
OT: Colima is reputed to be nice
3 colleges, a state capital and not far from the Pacific coast. Will be looking at it some on our trip in April - there is that active volcano, but then we don't live to far away from Mt. St. Helens here :).
Thanks for th well wishes. If we do that, we'll always have enough to head back north if we should choose to.
Spanish
I speak enough Spanish to get along in Spanish only places, and most folks can understand my portugues if spanish fails me :), though I have been teased about my Brasilian accent - while my vocabulary has decreased due to disuse, I still speak portugues with a Paulistano regional accent rather than an US English one.
There are, in places like around Laguna Chapala and San Miguel de Allende (aka gringolandia by some), enough English language infrastructure that gringos retire there and never learn Spanish very well at all. Unfortunate, I think.
It's palapa roof.
Kathy is starting to study Spanish.
Well, I guess my little piece of
net narcissim is ready to be revealed
http://web.mac.com/roni_smith/iWeb/
From the Prudent Speculator via a marketwatch article
For a broader media play, Jessica Chiaverini, an associate editor of The Prudent Speculator, likes Walt Disney, citing the summer release of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and the next Pixar movie Cars, and new markets in video games as "evidenced by a deal with Apple to distribute episodes of shows like Lost and Desperate Housewives."
I'm inclined towards letting my Pixar shares turn into Disney shares - but will have to wait and see.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?page=2&guid={5CED9A7D-B749-4413-AF14-7E8EC08311B8}&...
Ya'll sure post a lot. EOM
This pixr shareholder has made enough - and its not over till the big woman sings, right? She may have sang already.
I have generally used 100dpi - some graphics seem to look better at that res than at 72 dpi - even on a Mac :)
so don't gimme any of the exactly religion - that puts a burr under my saddle :).
early rev annoucement
I sold soon after it. Apple kept going up longer than I expected it to, but.......
Thanks lango
That is so windows-like. There should be a folder in the site organizer labelled Photos. The user should be able to drag the photo pages he or she creates to that folder. The program should do the rest - create the links to the individual photo pages that would run at the top of the main photo page. That would be an Apple like solution :).
lango help files
I am going to have to look. I have published two photo pages now. The link for one is Photos, the link for the other is Photos 2.
What I would like to see is a link that says Photos, and when one clicks on it they would get links to the various photo pages.
Going to try on of the newsletter type styles next, I think.
iWeb does rock for getting stuff up fast that looks pretty good.
iWeb
Starting to get it now. I think I am going to like this program a lot. This deserves some advertising exposure. Hopefully, it will increase sales of .Mac, I think it could.
If you want to put some stuff on the web for folks to look at, this is a good, easy to use tool. Go buy it now :)
iWeb book
Apparently I do. I created an entry and published it. Went to look and it still have the generic entry as the first one. Back to iWeb. Changed that. Published again. The first entry I published disappeared from the website and apparently from iWeb as well.
All that 20 minutes of work down some drain. Have to try to find it. Manuals are always helpful - as I don't know why it replaced and entry that was already there.
Gotta go figure it out now
No, it was not a great day
but it coulda been a lot worse.
iLife 06 arrived.
I think I will probably install it and start dinking around with it tomorrow. Hope I can find a good iWeb book. I kinda require one :)
What am I thinking
5 of 13 of my positions were up today - NG AUY CHK GPXM RSNRX.
That is what I am thinking. If all your positions are highly co-correlated, you are not adequately diversified, that is what I am thinking.
lango wrote about the risk of a terrorist attack - I'd suggest that some gold/metal stocks would be a good hedge against that and other risks. There are some good mutual funds you could look at.
the new dot.com
There are more bits in the world than barrels :).
Eenergy (including a clean energy ETF), AAPL precious metals and base metals = a dash of pixr a dab of molybdenum and a bit of silver - that has been a good combination for a period of time.
AAPL is not doing great, but it's bad all over
That is not an accurate statement.
The power of Nano
A new silver alloy has been developed, one that does not tarnish. Products using this new alloy will be released in early Feb. One of the first products:
Lustre Silver has been developed over four years as part of a €2.2m European-funded research project. Manufactured exclusively by Carrs of Sheffield, it will be officially launched at the Spring Fair, Birmingham NEC (5-9 February, 2006), along with a new Lustre range that includes iPod nano holders, business card holders, passport covers and cutlery.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/materialwissenschaften/bericht-54051.html
No Bootz, I have not spent time in or around San Luis Potosi. Will be not too far away during an April trip, but won't get there cause we're going to beeline for the beach after a week in the hills.
iWeb deep thoughts
Thanks bootz. I have ordered lLife 06 specifically for iWeb. I will use it to redo my homepage, which now only contains photo albums.
I plan to use the blog feature to keep family and friends informed on our continuing adventures and misadventures on the way to early retirement in Mexico. The desire to do so is based on the narcissitic notion that they will be interested and that someday it will contain the seeds of articles and perhaps a book about the process of preparing for and moving there, and then the continuing adventures of exploring the country.
Quien sabes :), it could turn out well or it could be a big turdball before it is done.
Rosetta,
The importance of Rosetta will be determined, in part, by the speed with which other applications become native. I think you guys may be over stating its significance, but it is part of the transition "cost"
dilleet, buy into the spin??
Huh?? I asked a question in the post you responded to. It is one with an empirical answer. What the hell does that have to do with spin?
10. There IS a Trojan Horse or Halo Effect.
So, if the size of the effect remains constant, the absolute numbers of CPUs sold due to the effect should grow considerably, keeping in mind that we have to subtract out from overall CPU sale the Osborne effect of people like me who are waiting for the Intel iBook replacement before buying.
Using this iMac G5, I have to say this is the first time I have bought a new box and not been disappointed I didn't wait a month to get the New Thing. It is a sweet machine and all the Adobe apps that Kathy uses with it run natively :).
Of course, part of the sweetness comes from moving from an original 17" iLamp with 512 megO' RAM to a 20" G5 with a gig O' RAM
What were the difference in YOY sales?
Which period shorter than the past year, during the past year, show the opposite?