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The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for March 19, 2007
2007-03-19 15:35:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. Well, it looks like the frogster isn’t going to win ESPN’s NCAA Basketball Tournament Challenge, either on the Men’s or Women’s side. So, I’ll have to rely on something else to provide for my future. Something a little safer and reliable, like reversing the letters of Wall Street’s stock picks and ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
Review of ?The Riches,? Super Foos and The NBA MVP
2007-03-16 16:20:00 Well, I watched The Rich es earlier this week. Good stuff, for a TV show. But it seems like the kind of thing that you actually will have to keep watching to get the most out of it, like ER or 24 or Lost. I have, by the way, watched not one episode of any of ... More About: Review , Super , The N , The Riches
The Ides March to Their Own Drummer, and He is Simply Beautiful
2007-03-15 18:01:00 Yes, you should probably stay at home today, what with it being The Ides of March and all. In 44 BC, a soothsayer told Julius Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March.” Julius was summarily stabbed to death on that very Ide. Included in his stabbers was his friend Brutus, to whom Caesar asked, “Et ... More About: Simp , Beautiful , Simply , Drum
A Frog Goes to New Hampshire Part 5, or The Milennium Falcon Rides Again
2007-03-15 03:10:00 I needed to bring some of my nephew Dean’s (yes, Dean who got me sick) stuff up to him when I visited New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago. So I borrowed my sister Kirsten’s Plymouth Voyager, since Dean had a LOT of stuff. She took my Corolla. When I dropped the car off, we had ... More About: Hire , Ride , Falcon
Don?t Even Bother Trying to Dance in March, Because I?ve Already Cut the Ru
2007-03-14 04:07:00 It’s that time of year again- time for The Freaky Foxtrot, The Leaping Lambada, The Sizzling Salsa. That’s right, they call it The Big Dance , and I’ve got all the right moves. I’m like Tom Cruise slidin’ across the floor in his skivvies. I’m like Prince telling y’all that there’s only one year left until ... More About: Other , Read , March , Because
A TV Show I Will Watch
2007-03-12 17:09:00 Tonight at 10pm, on the FX channel, a new show will air called “The Riches,” starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. Beth and I are both big Eddie Izzard fans, and Beth (and me too, to a lesser extent, since I watch about 3 movies per year), is a big Minnie Driver fan. So we have high ... More About: Watch , Show , Will
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for March 12, 2007
2007-03-12 16:48:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. TFF came storming (well, at least drizzling) back this week, and closed the gap between the TFF portfolio and the Wall Street portfolio to a mere 3.01 percent. Today, JP Morgan downgraded AU, which opened at $42.66 , so TFF is upgrading UA, which opened at $46.71, ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
The Most Important Day of the Year and My Favorite Subject
2007-03-10 01:24:00 LISTEN: I don’t think Cancer is funny. I don’t think death is funny. I don’t think those Darwin Award things about people dying while they are doing dumb things are funny. There’s plenty of funny stuff in the world that doesn’t involve death. When Karl Mueller, the bass player for Soul Asylum died of Cancer on ... More About: Port , Most , Favorite , Year , Import
Our Big Trip Part 6- Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands and Arches National Parks
2007-03-09 15:07:00 The background about Our Big Trip is here. Day 36- Sunday, July 20: We awoke well-rested in a campground just a stone’s throw from Bryce Canyon Nation al Park , so named for Ebenezer Bryce, who, upon seeing it, called it “One hell of a place to lose a cow.” Bryce is not actually a canyon, but a series ...
Dirty Laundry and My New Hanes Modeling Career
2007-03-08 19:35:00 Writing is cathartic. Writers know this, and many say that is the reason they keep writing. Most of the time, the way I catharsize with my computer is by writing silly stuff and trying to remember to keep looking at the world through glasses with a big red nose and a rainbow afro attached. Just finding ... More About: Laundry , Model , Modeling , Care , Career
Top 5 Rock and Roll Guitar Solos
2007-03-08 02:59:00 Boy, if I ever wanted to unleash a storm of hate comments, this is probably the way to go. I started playing guitar in 1986 or so, in the midst of the “shredder” era. So my first guitar heroes were Yngwie Malmsteen, Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani, Nuno Bettencourt, etc. I spent quite a few hours ... More About: Guitar , Rock , Roll , Solo , Rock and Roll
A Frog Goes to New Hampshire Part 4, or Mensa Initiation Day
2007-03-06 18:58:00 If there’s one thing I am, well, right now I’m feeling a bit peckish, but that’s not really what I mean. I mean in a longer term sense, if there’s one thing I am, it’s… although I do seem to be peckish a lot of the time. OK, so in a longer term sense I’d ... More About: Hire , Men , New Hampshire , Mensa , Hampshire
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for March 5, 2007
2007-03-05 16:31:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. Yikes. Last week, well, aaah, well, ummm, ahem, wasn’t anyone’s best week, including TFF. The cool thing about anti-picking palindromic tickers is that when they go in TFF’s favor, it’s a double victory, and when they don’t, well, let’s not dwell on the past. Today Credit Suisse upgraded CME, which opened today at $541, ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
A Frog Goes to New Hampshire Part 3, or a Potential Olympian is Born
2007-03-02 19:21:00 Well, well, well. Look who’s back from New Hampshire with all his arms and legs attached. That’s right, the frogster hit the slopes and lived to tell about it. In fact, I didn’t just hit the slopes, I knocked them out like my name was Mike Tyson. I shredded them like my name was Cuisinart. ... More About: Hire , Frog , Part
A Frog Goes to New Hampshire Part 2, or Manly Man Jobs and the Men Who Perf
2007-03-01 22:36:00 I’d like to now spend a little time bragging about how manly I was while in New Hampshire visiting my siblings. I had two days of back-breaking labor while I was up there of the most manly kind. One of these days involved wood. There are two versions of this story. Here is the first. My brother ... More About: Hire , Jobs , Men
Two Strings
2007-03-01 19:07:00 I was feeling a little cruddy yesterday, but in order to keep my post-per-day commitment going, I decided to add another post today. However, I am not fully recovered, and instead of trying to overtax my razor-sharp wit and formidible tall tale construction skills, I have decided to start a new category at The Frog Bog, ... More About: Ring , Rings , Strings , String , Tring
A Frog Goes to New Hampshire Part 1, or Disguised Germ Warfare Specialists
2007-02-28 00:56:00 Yes, the frogster visited New Hampshire last week, and some of his family therein. Here is a picture of all of us. Top row- the frogster, ther frogster’s sister and the frogster’s wife (tadpole). Bottom row- the frogster’s brother, the frogster’s brother’s fiancee, the frogster’s sister’s son, the frogster’s brother’s fiancee’s son’s girlfriend and the frogster’s brother’s ... More About: Hire , War , Lists , List
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for February 26th, 2007
2007-02-26 16:31:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. WPS is now TEG due to a merger. Number of shares, price, etc. are not affected by this change and TEG is still the company picked by TFF as the inverse of Deutsche’s SPW upgrade. The last couple of weeks, while TFF was on vacation, TFF’s portfolio must have gone along ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
Goodbye for a Week and The Frogster on Skis
2007-02-16 00:11:00 I must now sadly bid you adieu for a week. I’m going to New Hampshire tomorrow to visit my brother and sister and nephew and brother’s fiancee and sister’s boyfriend and brother’s fiancee’s kid and brother’s fiancee’s other kid. No, they don’t all live together. Anyway, I’m staying with my brother, and he’s got dial-up, ... More About: Frog , Week , Good , Goodbye , Frogs
The Suncast SB 350 Snow Brush Squeegee Ice Scraper (My Ice Scraper Can Kick
2007-02-14 20:10:00 Poor Beth. This could be a post about Valentine’s Day and love and how special she is, but I just wrote a post about that a couple of weeks ago in honor of her birthday. I think she gets somewhat shortchanged on Valentine’s Day just like our pals Andrea Fischer and Tara Zorovich who have the poor ... More About: Crap , Scrap , The Sun , Snow , Cast
Global Warring
2007-02-13 18:02:00 I know, I know. I’m the funny guy. I’m supposed to write funny things. But this morning I’m just too grumpy (I know many of you who know me best would be absolutely astounded to hear I’m grumpy, but believe it or not, it’s true). I check out blogs. Not all day, but I like to ... More About: War , Global , Ring , Arri
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for February 12th, 2007
2007-02-12 16:55:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. While TFF was ill this past week, the TFF portfolio most certainly was not. TFF picked up .20 percent percent this week, and is breathing down The Wall Street portfolio’s neck (but only in a competitive way- not in a way that would cause the WS portfolio to ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
The End of the World As I Know It
2007-02-09 18:00:00 Beth and I watched a TV program on Discovery or The History Channel or one of those smart people networks, right around New Year’s, about how the world was going to end. There were several possibilities, including an asteroid strike, a supervolcanic eruption under Yellowstone that plunged the world into another ice age, global warming, ... More About: World , The World , Know , End Of The World
Our Big Trip Part 5- More Wyoming, Salt Lake (The Lake and The City) And Zi
2007-02-08 18:25:00 The background info about Our Big Trip is here. Day 29- Sunday, July 13: We chilled out this morning, then around 4, Laura, Beth and I rode up to Grand Teton National Park. We drove through it for a while until we got to a spot called Jenny Lake, which featured, of all things, a lake. We ... More About: City , Wyoming , Part , More
Opposite Immune Systems Attract and A Glimpse at World Politics
2007-02-07 17:36:00 I once read something that stated one of the mysterious ways people were attracted to one another was through immune systems. In the same mysterious way that certain breeds of Sandpiper females are attracted to the best male Sandpiper dancer, humans are supposedly attracted in some genetic way to people who will assist us is ... More About: Politics , World , System , World Politics , Site
Fever Dreams, 7-11 and NBA Superstardom
2007-02-06 19:02:00 I wanted to keep updating this site every day, because there are some people who look here each day to see what I’m currently ranting about. But I’m not in much of a writing mood today- I’m feeling pretty sick. Been having those weird sick dreams you have when you’re under the weather. Actually, given ... More About: Dreams , Super , Superstar , Star , Dream
The Fearless Frog?s Stock Picks for February 5, 2007
2007-02-05 16:32:00 The background info about The Fear less Frog is here. TFF leaned on the flippers this week, and now is a mere 2.36 percent behind Wall Street for 2007. Today BB&T downgraded FL, which opened at $22.68, so TFF is upgrading LF, which opened at $10.39. AG Edwards upgraded NNN, so TFF is downgrading it. NNN opened today at $25.00. The complete numbers for the year so ... More About: Stock Picks , Stock
Groundhog Day and Family Business
2007-02-02 17:43:00 As you are probably well aware, today Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog of all time, emerged from his burrow at Gobbler’s Knob around 7:25 this morning and did not see his shadow. The gate to Gobbler’s Knob, in case you’re interested, opened at 3am for interested parties. Three-ay-em. Yikes. What kind of strange people ... More About: Business , Family , Ground , Ness , Round
A Day in My Life
2007-02-02 00:19:00 Today I thought I’d give everyone a glimpse into the glamorous life of, um, me. Just a little snapshot of my day, so you kind of feel like you know the guy behind the posts. Checked out a link today, oh boy About a spammer who’d been put away. And since the news made me quite glad, Well, I just had to laugh. We’re ... More About: Life , My Life
Musical Good Times, Manhattan Parking, and Linkage
More articles from this author:2007-01-31 15:46:00 In celebration of Beth’s birthday yesterday, we headed out to The Cornelia Street Cafe, located at 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village, to grab some food and check out some music. We had a really nice time. The food was good, and we had a nice table right by a fireplace. The people performing included my ... More About: Music , Musical , Parking , Time , Musica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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