Sep 30 2009
Last December, the President of my university announced a salary freeze for the following fiscal year in light of the economic situation. I didn’t think it would apply to grad student stipends, but apparently it does. I just got my first paycheck for the new school year and lo and behold there is no pay [...]
Sep 27 2009
1. I’ve been meeting with my advisor on Fridays. Many times what happens is that I am collecting data up until Thursday night and therefore I am unable to make slides until Friday. Although I typically wake up around 9:15 am, if I need to make slides on Friday, then I’ll wake up at 6 [...]
Sep 27 2009
Out of my boredom, tonight I decided to read about Islam. It was just one of those times where you just sit down and read Wikipedia entries for no other purpose but to read about stuff.
Although I have my own beliefs, the goal of this post is not to criticize Islam. The only thing I [...]
Sep 24 2009
A few days ago, I pretty much said that I am such a stingy bastard that I am going to try to fix my phone rather than get a new one, and that if I had to get a new one, I’d get a cheap one.
Today, Research in Motion’s stock barfed after its earnings announcement.
Yep, [...]
Sep 23 2009
In a post last week, I said…
If you are a bear, this level right here all the way up to about 1065 for a little overthrow has to hold.
I’m a bit off. It turns out the S&P 500 went as high as 1080.15 today, but it closed at 1060.87. The highest close so far has [...]
Sep 22 2009
On September 9th, I discovered that my cell phone was broken. Specifically, the speaker stopped working so I can’t hear the person I am talking to. My cell phone does have a speakerphone function and that speaker does work, but I’d rather not use it because I don’t want everyone to hear what the other [...]
Sep 20 2009
Two months ago, I bought a George Foreman grill for the office. The primary purpose wasn’t to save money; rather, it was to be able to eat what I like to eat. Before I bought it, most of the time I would blow $6-$7 on lunch, only to finish half of it because it is [...]
Sep 19 2009
I used to have meetings with my advisor late in the afternoon on Wednesdays. After my meeting, I’d feel extremely unmotivated since my next meeting would be a week later. I would then proceed to goof off for the rest of the day, and Thursday and Friday would be shot as well. Sure, I’d go [...]
Sep 18 2009
Girl: I think…I think you’re getting fatter.
Ouch. That’s bad.
Sep 18 2009
My day trading strategy has now failed 4 times out of the last 5 days and this is leading me to say that we are now in the process of topping. The behavior of the market has clearly changed. There is a lot of indecision.
My day trading strategy was as follows:
If it’s up, go long [...]