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The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for June 19, 2007
2007-06-19 17:02:00 Yes, I’m doing this on Tuesday. This weekend has been a bit hectic. Pardon the delay. I promise these picks will be just as profitable as any Monday picks we at TFF would have made. The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is ... More About: June , Stock Picks , Stock
The US Open Winner
2007-06-14 15:42:00 I’m gonna say that Jose Maria Olazabal wins the US Open with a final score of 5 below par. Remember, you heard it here first. More About: Winner , US Open , The U
I?m Not Too Cool For Pier 39
2007-06-13 15:55:00 WARNING-NOT FUNNY POST ALERT! There was a thing on msn yesterday about the top things not to do in various cities. I looked through the list to find Pier 39 in San Francisco, and, yes, it was there. I’m not sure why locals always poo-poo tourist locations. I think it’s the “my thing” phenomenon. I give guitar lessons, and ... More About: Cool
100 Frogster Facts- Fact 5
2007-06-12 16:45:00 Fact 5 about me is that I always, always, always wear shorts if the temperature is above 40 degrees fahrenheit (for my European readers, that’s 4.444444444444445 degrees celsius (formerly known as centigrade)). 4.444444444444444 degrees celsius would be iffy, and 4.444444444444443 degrees celsius is definitely long pants weather. This leads some people to think I am ... More About: Facts , Fact , Frogs
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for June 11, 2007
2007-06-11 16:42:00 The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is here. Today Stifel Nicolaus downgraded STK, which opened at $39.85, so TFF is upgrading TSU, which opened at $36.19. UBS upgraded UST, which opened at $52.96, so TFF is downgrading TSU, which opened at $36.19. The ... More About: June , Stock Picks , Stock
A Spring Chicken Reports on the Latest News
2007-06-07 18:04:00 Plenty of news, lately. Plenty of news. 11-year-old kids shooting farm animals for sport (guess which state THAT happened in?), professional athletes defending dog fighting as something that, if done on private property, is no one else’s business (TFF has now moved Clinton Portis from the OK list to the not OK and to be ... More About: News , Spring , Chicken , Repo , Late
Showing Some Love for the Caaaaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaable Guy
2007-06-05 16:45:00 Recently had a couple of insomnia-laden nights, so I spent a few hours on the couch channel surfing. I watched some sports, some documentaries and part of Office Space, which is still funny after all these years. But I saw one thing that really toasted my English Muffin(c). It really ran a finger through my ... More About: Love , A-Ha , Me Love , Some
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for June 4, 2007
2007-06-04 17:02:00 The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is here. Today RBC downgraded CM, which opened at $95.72, so TFF is upgrading MC, which opened at $20.93. BMO upgraded HTE, which opened at $29.91, so TFF is downgrading ETH, which opened at $36.14. BMO isn’t ... More About: June , Stock Picks , Stock
Our Big Trip Part 11- Connecticut, Niagara Falls, Kingston, NY and Humans B
2007-06-01 18:45:00 The background info about Our Big Trip is here. Sunday, September 21: Kate woke up early to begin removing a great big gigantic 1,000 pound radiator and replacing it with a baseboard heater. She is quite talented at that sort of thing. The rest of us helped by running out the back door when she wasn’t looking. Noah ... More About: Connecticut , Niagara Falls , Part , Kings
100 Frogster Facts- Fact 4
2007-05-29 18:11:00 Fact 4 about me is that I LOOOOOOOVE icy pops (those Flav-Or-Ice things) in the summertime. I was fortunate to go to Costco and procure 200 of them for a mere pittance (that’s my way of saying I don’t remember how much they cost but since I was at Costco they must logically have been ... More About: Facts , Fact , Frogs
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for May 29, 2007
2007-05-29 17:42:00 The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is here. Today Citigroup downgraded PTI, which opened at $27.83, so TFF is upgrading ITP, which opened at $4.72. Bank of America upgraded APC, which opened at $48.70, so TFF is downgrading CPA, which opened at $63. TFF came ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock , Pick
A Frog Visits the Dentist Part 2, Or The King of Oral Hygiene
2007-05-23 17:43:00 Well, I made it. I’m sure that you have all been on the edge of your ergonomic office chairs wondering what the outcome of my dental visit was. I am pleased to report that I have discovered the greatest dental team on earth. There are many reasons for this: 1. Nobody yelled at me. I first met ... More About: The King , Hygiene , Frog , King , Part
The NBA Playoff Outlook and a Surprisingly Entertaining European Football M
2007-05-18 16:21:00 This post was going to be about the NBA playoffs. I was going to write about how the Spurs, a team that I had rooted for many times in years past as they played the evil Lakers, had officially become The Bad Guys, largely due to Bruce Bowen’s dirty play. Yes, he is a dirty ... More About: Football , Outlook , European , Sing , Enter
A Frog Visits the Dentist
2007-05-17 15:31:00 I have a dental visit scheduled for today. The dentist. Ooh boy. I hate going to the dentist. It’s not my fault. I was traumatized as a youth. I have an overbite that you can drive an ATV through. Apparently, my lower jaw isn’t long enough, or forward enough or whatever. So when I was probably ... More About: Frog , Visi , Visit , Dentist , The D
100 Frogster Facts- Fact 3
2007-05-16 15:09:00 Fact 3 about me is that I dream in color. I know this because of a recurrent nightmare I had for a few months when I was 12 or 13. I’ll outline it below, but I must warn you, it’s scary. I was sitting at the kitchen table having dinner with my family at our house ... More About: Facts , Fact , Frogs
Cleaning Up Old Business
2007-05-15 17:23:00 Well, the manuscript is done and shipped to some editorial folks. Ahhhh. Now, then, it’s time to purge The Frog Bog of some open ends, so that as the flowers bloom in spring, so The Frogster can, er, bloom anew, and, uh, float in the freshly cleaned environment, cleaned of, um, algae-like residue from old posts. ... More About: Business , Cleaning , Ness , Sine
My Biography as Told By a Bunch of Pictures I Found in a Manilla Envelope
2007-05-07 05:02:00 The manuscript I’ve been mentioning in some of my posts for the last few months is just about done. I’m excited about this, but I’m finding that the last mile is the hardest. Since I only have so much literary mojo each day, I am going to put The Frog Bog on a 2 week ... More About: Pictures , Biography , Told , Graph , A Man
Me, Myself and Everyone Else in the Universe
2007-05-05 03:28:00 Last night as I was falling asleep watching the Warriors crush the Mavs, a Time Warner commercial came on. It showed a bunch of skateboarders executing tricks that apparently would not have been possible without cable, internet and phone service provided by Time Warner. Then the announcer said you should immediately sign up for Time ... More About: Universe , Ever , Verse , Univ , Else
Waiting for the Alien Invasion
2007-05-03 23:53:00 I hope the aliens get here soon. The reason I hope the aliens get here soon is that until they get here, we’re going to continue to embark on silly studies like the recent one by a Penn professor and a Cornell student. In it, they claim that there is evidence of racial bias in NBA ... More About: Alien , Invasion , Sion , Waiting , The A
Celebrity Guest Blogger #2
2007-05-02 16:54:00 Our special guest blogger today is writing from an uncharted desert isle. “Three years. It’s been three years. I can’t believe it. It was only supposed to be a three hour tour. A three hour tour. I can’t take it any more. Who found the tree sap for the pancake syrup? Me. Who saved everyone from the WWII vet ... More About: Celebrity , Blogger , Guest , Logger , Blogg
The Spiderflex Bicycle Seat, or My Beautiful Calves
2007-05-01 16:56:00 I love riding my bike. I realize how fortunate this makes me, because many people cannot find some form of exercise they really enjoy. Riding my bike isn’t exercise to me, it’s fun time. It’s great to get outside, taste the bugs in your teeth feel the wind on your face and interact with the ... More About: Seat , Beautiful , Spider , Beau , Bicycle
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for April 30, 2007
2007-04-30 16:35:00 The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is here. Wachovia downgraded EEP today, so TFF was hoping to upgrade the inverse symbol, because it would be funny, but, alas, the Wall Street types have no sense of humor, so there is ... More About: April , Stock Picks , Stock
Our Big Trip Part 10- Marriage, Parking Tickets and David Heitzmann?s Rocke
2007-04-28 01:20:00 Sunday, September 7: The beginning of football season. Football has always been fun for our family. We never really enjoyed any other sports at all, but we always liked football. When we were younger, on Sunday we would get out a piece of paper and write our picks for the day. My sister Kirsten (Patriots fan), ... More About: Marriage , Parking , Tickets , Park , David
A Great Big Taste of Chinatown
2007-04-26 15:34:00 This past Saturday we went to the “Taste of Chinatown ” festival in NYC. The festival featured food, food, music, food, cool bonsai trees, food, art, food, dancing, food and food. Since we weren’t the only ones there, we had to develop a plan. We decided on the following strategy: eat everything. Fortunately, we had A Special Secret ... More About: Great , Nato , Town
The Perfect Gift for Administrative Professionals? Day
2007-04-25 15:46:00 There may be some people who already know the secret. For the rest of you, I offer this helpful post. At some point, when I upgrade my server and hard drive, I’ll put up a post listing all of the jobs I’ve had over the years. I was a secretary/admin asst/whatever the proper term is today ... More About: Administrative , Gift , Prof , Perfect , Trat
100 Frogster Facts- Fact 2
2007-04-25 01:13:00 Fact 2 about me is that despite the best efforts of television commercials, I do not believe that the type of car you drive makes you cool. I believe that if you are cool, your car sort of absorbs your cooness via osmosis and becomes cool. Remember what Fonzie said? He said, “It’s not the ... More About: Facts , Fact , Frog , Frogs
100 Frogster Facts- Fact 1
2007-04-23 16:36:00 I’ve seen a few blogs do something like this, and some of the lists people put together are fun to read. So I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and venture into the mysterious realm of, ah, me. Fact 1 about me is that I remember at least a couple of dreams I have every night. ... More About: Facts , Frog , Frogs
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for April 23, 2007
2007-04-23 16:27:00 The background info about The Fearless Frog is here. The more recent background info about TFF’s patented Alphabetic Inversion and Chart Reversal Strategy is here. Today Citigroup downgraded XRX, so TFF is upgrading it. XRX opened at $18.60. Citigroup also upgraded O, so TFF is downgrading it. TFF is not picking on Citigroup, but palindromic tickers is what TFF ... More About: April , Stock Picks , Stock
Our Big Trip Part 9- Joisey, Old School Plowing and Bruce Springsteen
2007-04-20 08:51:00 The background about Our Big Trip is here. An Overview We have been spending a lot of our time in and around Trenton, NJ, where Beth’s mother, brother and future sister-in-law and your humble narrator’s father, father’s wife and half brother live. This is the part of the trip where we have done more visiting and less ... More About: School , Bruce , Ring , Rings
Breakin? Off A Little Sumthin? For the Bots
More articles from this author:2007-04-19 16:23:00 The first thing they tell you, whoever they are, about blogging is, “know thy reader.” If you’ve got a site that gives tips on how to make lace doilies, a review of the upcoming Xbox 360 game “Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway,” with a special commentary about the gore factor, probably won’t be an enjoyable read for ... More About: Bots , Little , Litt , Brea , Breakin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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