coolhand's Account Talk

[coolhand]

I took typing as a ninth grade elective - it was fun. Met my first love in that class.

I took 2 years of it in HS. It was mostly girls in that class. What's not to like?

 

[nasa1974]

I took typing as a ninth grade elective - it was fun. Met my first love in that class.

Hey, Birch we learned on a real typwriters. Not these fancy machines now that spell check for you without asking. :laugh: These youngsters do not now the frustration of turning in a report 3 pages long, single spaced and NO white-out at all. Or getting to the bottom of the page and not having room for your references and having to retype the whole thing. :nuts:

 

[Silverbird]

Well, those typewriters survived far too long in Government Service, at least where I work. Back when Wang computers were the coolest thing, certain documents had to have an original signature and had to have carbon copies. So here were the poor secretaries typing up certain documents with carbon paper. Anyone who wanted to change a document was greeted with words that can only be said on TV due to the recent court ruling, and you had to have secretaries. They spent an inordinate amount of their time artistically scraping carbon copied letters to change little bits of text, and carefully inserting and lining up document lines and carbon copies for new text to be typed in.

Every once in a while, even today, we find someone who still owns an IBM Selectric around here. Scary. So even though I also took those typing classes, typewriters give me the willies.

 

[crws]

I remember the Selectric's as being the "new-fangled whiz-bang" model. They were sweet compared to the two color ribbon model I used.
When those typebars got jammed and bent, you inadvertently got ink on your fingers after re-aligning them if you wanted to continue typing....
I had more jams than usual. :cheesy:

 

[alevin]

Got my Selectric as HS graduation present. Sure got its use in college. My typing class was sr. year, had a knockdown-dragout fight with my dad when he first learned I wanted to sign up for the class, he thought only secretaries should learn how to type. He threatened to send me to sec. school instead of college if that was what I wanted. That was jr. year.

by sr. year he'd forgotten the fight entirely and I moved ahead. then he started learning how to use computer at work before he retired, now he's on computer all day every day doing genealogy, games, email, you name it. :laugh:

 

[coolhand]

BP Says It Has Stopped Flow of Oil to Gulf

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-15/bp-begins-test-on-leaking-well-in-gulf-of-mexico.html

 

[coolhand]

About That Financial Reform 'Victory'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...60615508520.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion

 

[coolhand]

Wall Street Outsmarts Congress

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...eform-how-wall-street-will-outsmart-congress/

 

[coolhand]

US Republican threatens to subpoena govt over spill

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1521265220100715

 

[coolhand]

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100714_dispatch_china_second_guessing_global_economy_struggles

 

[coolhand]

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100713_above_tearline_death_comrade_j

 

[coolhand]

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100712_dispatch_egyptian_succession_and_strategic_importance

 

[coolhand]

I used today's selling pressure to execute my 2nd IFT and sweep my last G fund contributions into the S fund.

Go ahead bear, scare me.

 

[felixthecat]

Take it from Yoda, "Oh, you will be".

 

[crws]

I was just thinking- here's that doom & gloom you were hoping for! :laugh:

 

[Birchtree]

It's looking more and more like 2004 with the volatility of cycles - and eventually a higher low was placed and the bull stampeded into 2005.

 

[coolhand]

I was just thinking- here's that doom & gloom you were hoping for! :laugh:

Don't really have to hope for it. Bullishness has not risen in the face of the most recent rally. It's not being accepted. As soon as more selling pressure comes in the boat leans hard.

 

[coolhand]

Take it from Yoda, "Oh, you will be".

Thanks. I need a few more posts like that.

 

[Silverbird]

IMNSHO it's Friday, rule of thumb is don't sell on a Friday cause everyone else does. So this selling today doesn't mean it will continue into next week...

 

[coolhand]

IMNSHO it's Friday, rule of thumb is don't sell on a Friday cause everyone else does. So this selling today doesn't mean it will continue into next week...

It's OPEX. So today is definitely not a day to take too seriously.