Monthly Archives: July 2009

An interesting night at the steak house

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Stacy and I went out for a steak dinner last night to celebrate a few things. I actually surprised her and we went to Alexander’s in Cupertino. She was so busy telling a story on the ride there, that she didn’t realize it until we were pulling into the parking lot. For those who are not familiar with it, this place is incredible, and blows away the usual suspects of Boston steak houses. Everything I’ve ever gotten there has been amazing, so last night I pushed the idea of the tasting menu on my wife and we went for it.

Statement 1: I am spoiled by what Jamie does when I go to his restaurants, and that is not the usual tasting menu experience.

Statement 2: Steak houses are great at making steaks. The more they deviate from steaks, the more it goes downhill.
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Shame on Facebook…

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Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on “Settings” up at the top where you see the “Logout” link. Select “Privacy”. Then select “News Feed and Wall”. Next, select the tab that reads “Facebook Ads”. In the drop down box, select “No One”. Then save your changes. To help your friends, copy and paste this into your status.

Have bike, will ride….

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Stacy and I bought bikes this morning, and after some driving around to get a rack for my Jeep, and some other supplies we went for our first ride. Here’s the map of the ride. Thanks to my iPhone with GPS, it mapped the whole thing for us.

How could I have forgotten Ford?

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I was reminded this morning, that when I went thru last week’s update on my stock holdings, that I left out one of the purchases that I had the most confidence in working out over the long run. Ford! I bought shares of Ford back on June 11th for a little bit under $6 dollars a share, and after a a nice earnings call this morning, they were up to almost $7. My horizon on this stock is much longer term, as I am hoping that they take this auto industry crisis as a turning stone in their business, and continue upwards to profitability, but the news is so far so good.

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My current financial holdings

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I’m not obligated by the SEC to declare what my holdings are, but I do enjoy doing it from time to time, just to track publicly how I am doing. I freely admit my losers when I have them, and try and state my winners ahead of time, so that I am on the record in favor of a stock BEFORE it runs up. It’s been a while since I’ve posted about stocks at all so I’ll just jump right in.

Sometimes you just blog about going to the beach

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I’ve been doing a lot of serious writing lately and working on higher quality articles for the blog.  I have a few articles that are partially written that I had hoped to finish for this weekend.  They are coming along slower than I had expected, and thought this would be a nice light hearted update for those interested.