http://deltatao.com/deltajoe Joe's rambling thoughts about life, games, movies, and Macintosh Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:05:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got a mailer today from "The Team for Democratic Voters," suggesting I vote for the slate including Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, and so forth -- and also for Prop 16, a PG&E initiative to keep away competition from public utility companies like SMUD.  (I pay less than half the ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=559 "C'mon kids, get out your math books," called Mrs. Rugg. Some groaned, but others enthusiastically pulled out their hefty, neon green math books bearing the the words "Holt Mathematics" in thick white letters. Along with these books, the classmates pulled out their Math journals, spiralbound notebooks filled with graph paper and bursting ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=556 This surfer/skater clothing company was a purchase back in 2006 at some $35 a share, and then I piled on more as it dropped to $25 and $18.  I sold most when it bounced back up to $38 in 2007, and I just sold the last of it at $20.44.  ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=554 Looks like Obama may be reading my blog.  Sweet. http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=552 Here's my post from January 2005, when I first bought QLTI: QLT Phototherapeutics (QLTI) develops eye disease drugs. Down 2% since I bought it. Very high risk, but good upside potential. I knew nothing about Visudyne, their main drug, or any of the other stuff they were developing.  This was a recommendation ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=548 Kathryn Bigelow won the best picture and director Oscars this year for The Hurt Locker (***1/2). I enjoyed the movie, though it didn't quite make my "best of the year" list. I'm still thrilled she won -- she's been one of my favorite directors for years, since a vampire romance in ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=545 Triangle is promoted as a horror flick, and it didn't even get a US theatrical release, dooming it to obscurity.  The poster implies a terrifying thrill ride. There's a crazy with a bloody axe on the cover, for heaven's sake.  Everything says, "cheap slasher flick." This is miserable marketing in the highest ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=543 I still haven't seen every good movie from 2009 -- some haven't come out on DVD, and some I just haven't gotten around to. The IMDB got rid of their PowerSearch feature, which let me trivially make a list of every movie from any year or group of years, and sort ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=540 I've been buying and selling Apple stock since the late 80s, and it's been good to me. It feels like almost the only company I've purchased in the last couple of years -- I bought 50 shares in February 2008 at $121, then it went up (but not quite to my ... http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=538 Here's an article I wrote almost 15 years ago.  Maybe I'll post later about how the Clan Lord karma system evolved. http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_29/vetneo.html http://deltatao.com/deltajoe/?p=536