One of my Uranium stocks, Energy Metals (EMU), was rumored to be taken over by another (unknown) company. The stock had a huge run, so now I’m sitting on an 85% profit. However, despite the continued gains, Cramer says to sell. In fact, he called for a triple sell on Friday. Here’s his explanation: Dear Jim: On...
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Gas went up ten cents since yesterday. I passed up the gas station last night on my way home, thinking for some reason that gas couldn’t possibly go up any higher overnight. And this morning I filled up at $3.57 per gallon. I paid $42 for a tank of gas this morning… This picture sums up my feelings on the matter. I...
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I beat the main quest for the Oblivion expansion pack. The story was actually very well done, giving a little more detail with each successful quest. At the end of the quest, the defeated bad guy spills the beans on the whole story and throws a little twist in there too. It was much more satisfying than the “congratulations,...
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I went into Chicago for my Oracle deposition today. It was a lot longer than I thought it would be, but it wasn’t terrible. It was in a regular meeting room, with two lawyers from each side, a court stenographer and a videographer. There were a lot of questions, and I answered everything as truthfully as I could (sometimes I...
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I have been subpoenaed to appear at a deposition for the case of Infinity Resources v Oracle Corporation. I worked at Infinity about two and a half years ago, and managed the project to implement Oracle i-Store software. I left the company in October of 2004, but the i-Store project died about a year later. Infinity decided to sue...
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The kitchen counters arrived this week. The installation crew showed up at around 8 AM and was out by 9:30. I stuck around to supervise but left for work shortly after they left. The counters look great though. We got the Corian brand of manufactured stone in the “Terra” color, which is brown with white and black flecks....
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For the last twenty-five years, Australia has had a national law that limits the number of Uranium mines in operation to three. Three shall be the number of the mining and the mining shall be no more than three (to paraphrase Monty Python and the Holy Grail). On Saturday, the Australian parliament voted to overturn this law, which...
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