Friday, May 21, 2010
5/22/10 Red House
Wait a minute something's wrong baby,
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door,
something's goin' on here.
I have a bad bad feeling
that my baby don't live here no more.
Can you believe FAZ gave it all back today? It ended the day (especially after hours) pretty much at Wednesday's close.
That's alright- if she don't love me no more, I know her sister will...
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I actually made two trades today, and lost a total of $327:
ReplyDeleteBoth opened and closed within the first 1/2 hour:
(a) VXX
(b) TZA
Need a little more patience...
Glad FAZ gave it all back actually, those guys prey for the demise of the global economy.
ReplyDeleteWow that is a killer video. I never seen jimmy play that v style guitar and for some reason it does not look like it is upside down. Can't believe i have never seen that before. Why would anyone be holding out 40 year old Jimmy Movies?
ReplyDeleteBob
Hmm.... maybe a scalp on TCK wouldn't be too risky?
ReplyDelete"Falling Coal Stocks in Apr Push up Prices--MIIT
May 20, 2010 11:07:11
[May 20] Coal stocks at major distribution ports increased by 0.659 million tons or 4.6% from this year beginning to 15.021 million tons in Apr end, but this figure decreased by 3.745 million tons or 20% over Mar end, pushing up thermal coal prices, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a report yesterday, according to Securities Times reports.
Statistics show daily coal delivery at Qinhuangdao Port rose from 0.59 million tons in Mar to 0.696 million tons in Apr, owing to recovering coal demand in coastal regions. Stock at the port plunged by 3.199 million tons or 40.7% compared with a month earlier.
Falling coal stock at Qinhuangdao Port, especially to the level of below 5 million tons, has significantly pressured coal consumers in coastal regions and consequently driven up thermal coal price in local regions in Apr, MIIT said in the report.
MIIT also pointed out the influence of Wangjialing coal mine accident has emerged. Tight coal supply occurred and ex-mine coal price climbed in major coal producing regions such as Datong and Shuozhou. The influence on market price as well as domestic coal supply and demand relationship is expected to continue.
Though Apr is an off season for coal consumption, coal delivery in this Apr posted growths both year on year and month on month. Coal delivery at major ports amounted to 45.845 million tons in Apr, with average daily delivery hitting a new high in this year of 1.528 million tons, up 67,000 tons or 4.6% over the 1.461 million tons in Mar."
-Edited by www.mysteel.net
I know only too well and too often what its like to kill yourself helping someone only to find out or see it was unappreciated. Very demoralizing when it did occur. I have to credit myself with walking away after every single time, no matter what the cost. If you really put your blood and soul into something, you won't be able to ever hold your head high again if you let them walk over you.
ReplyDeleteI had a desperate client once, had a business problem that was costing $15k a week in customer affecting problems, and so I sat there and figured it out, and figured out a solution on paper, and submitted it to their corporate as per the rules, and the CEO said he wanted it as quickly as I could possibly do it, so I sat there till late that night, and wrote it, debugged it, fixed the stuff that wasn't ready for the real world, retested, got it all working, and then submitted it to corporate for move to production. I got a rejection email back saying I wasn't allowed to work on it and that the programming had been outsourced to India. I was livid. I had told the CEO I would make it happen for him and had lived up to my promise, no lunch, no breaks, no supper, and got it done, and it went to waste.
Each week after that when I came in I would ask if the Indians got it finished, and each week they would tell me that they had submitted another program that failed end user testing for one reason or another. This went on for 4 weeks, until the 4th week they told me the Indians had finally got it working ($60k in mistakes later). I went and looked at the program the Indians had submitted, and there was my code, which they had finally found and copied. I went in and told the CEO I couldn't work there anymore, after lasting as a consultant/contractor from 1986 till 2005, lasting through probable 10 IT managers, 4 CEOs, and 3 systems/conversions. It was what I had to do. I couldn't have lived with myself if I had allowed their corporate ivory tower people, who knew nothing about the business itself, and proved it, to walk over me like that.
Sad to say, but sometimes you have to stand up and be counted, no matter what the cost.
We are at/near a short term bottom in the markets.
ReplyDeleteBob,
Your experience at work sounds awful but you should have done what evey other American does....Keep drawing checks as long as they continue to pay you, and laugh at the behind your back.
And take heart....The richest men I know have truly never even had a job, in the sense of actually working. They're drawn fat paychecks from their participation in the more destructive aspects of Capitalism....For example, one of my best golf buddies was in charge of sales for MS in NY and NJ during the salad years....they didn't pay him very much salary but the stock options were amazing, and now he lives like the Great Gatsby. He even joined the tea party because he likes to smoke tea!
People who get stock options are not workers!
Workers are trash, garbage, dirt, expendable, temporary crap. At least that's what they always said to me:)
I may die fairly poor, I may die fairly well off, but I live at least on my own terms, and that is the highest achievement of any man.
It's like the old expression about asking directions from an old farmer....."you can't GET THERE from here!"
One of my best friends growing up inherited the money his grandpa stole from those two nice boys from cleveland who invented Superman..
ReplyDeleteCould you imagine if your grandpa grabbed the trademark to superman, how great life could be?
I have never relenquished the now-for-me-impossible dream of inheriting wealth.....
Now THAT'S the American way:)
Shark,
ReplyDeleteThe difference between me and the Indians was not programming skill. I wrote on the programming request forms to corporate what was requested by the users (the CEO and his managers) while I sat there analyzing it with them, but later, as I wrote the code to provide it, I could see where things they asked for really weren't going to give them what they needed to solve the problem, so I "adjusted" what I wrote to make it look pretty much like what they requested, but within the constraint of solving the problem in a rational and justifiable manner.
That, of course was why the programs I had written them for 20 yrs had always worked, and made their CEO's and managers over the years look effective, always getting needed things accomplished without going through the 1/2 dozen rewrites and retries games like everyone else. The Indians just took longer to get there because each time they would program what was asked for, the end users would see why it wouldn't work, once the results were on their screen.
By that time I was just doing it because I liked to, not because I needed the money, and if you don't get to see the things you create succeed, there is no fun left in it.