lightning strikes twice

Man Has Odd Defense for Attempted Murder

The Sports Guy kills me:

My only pet peeve about having a Boston team in the Finals: When the Boston mayor makes the stupid bet with the other team’s mayor. Drives me crazy.

For instance, before the World Series, Mayor Menino of Boston wagered a bunch of Boston beer and food products (Legal Seafood’s clam chowder, a case of Sam Adams beer, 11 pounds of Dunkin Donuts coffee and a bunch of other Boston-related stuff in exchange for Anheuser-Busch Products, Toasted Ravioli, Bissinger Chocolate and some other St. Louis goodies from Mayor Clark Griswold.

That’s a bet? Those are high stakes? Oh, no, we lost … darn, we’re never gonna replace all that clam chowder; I never should have let him sucker me into that. Please. I hate this stuff. Just one of these times, I want one of the mayors to throw something out there like, “If you guys win, I’ll sleep with a tranvestite … if we win, you have to try heroin and speed at the same time.” Now THAT would get people talking.

Interesting stocks:

• ALN – breakout above 7.60, observe to see if price is maintained
• AMC – divergence in early October, still uptrending
• APN – breakout through 4.70, MACD is inconclusive
• ASX – still in massive uptrend
• BWP – still looks good (refer Monday 25th notes), but volume too low
• CSR – MACD & EMA signs good, good volume on breakout above $2.60
• FOA – MACD looks shaky, but EMA still positive, maintained breakout above $18.60
• FCL – unsure, review later
• HLY – still looks good (refer Monday 25th notes)
• LEI – looks good
• MAY – big move up today, MACD turning, EMA turning
• WES –
• WBC –

Naomi Klein details the shocking concessions that the US led interim government in Iraq made for business

Interesting Stocks:

• ALN – Golden cross, RSI strong, trending up, 15 day EMA above 30 day.
• AMC – worth reviewing over next two days.
• ALL – uptrending, but MACD still below 26 day average
• BCA – broke resistance at 3.25 on Fri, monitor position
• BBG – massive spike friday. observe
• BWP – Golden cross on MACD, momentum high, RSI strong but not overly so
• CPU – massive spike friday, but probably overbought
• FOA – strong friday, MACD signs good,
• GTP – Gap on friday, MACD 12 day above 26, histogram positive, RSI 70%
• HLY – Gap on friday, MACD signs good
• HWI – observe
• JST – RSI indicates overbought
• MGW – MACD good, EMA positive
• ORI – positive divergence on MACD histogram. observe
• PPX – resistance at 5.65
• RCL – could be overbought, but appears strong
• VCR – observe
• WBC – resistance at 18.20

Bush Relatives for Kerry

Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
Finished reading 18/10/04

Pattern Recognition is the story of Cayce Pollard – a ‘cool hunter’ – who is fascinated by some anonymous footage disseminated on the internet. This footage is anonymous not just in direction, but also in location and purpose. It is released in sections, 135 of them so far, and has a level of devotion from the fanatics that goes far beyond obsession.

Cayce is employed to track down the maker. Other important characters are Voytek (the ZX81? collector), Baranov (the drunk ex-security man), Dorotea (the driven career woman), Hubertus Bigend (the owner of ad agency Blue Ant), and Nora and Stella, the Russian originators of the work.

The main themes are the ever-present chances of unexpected loss (Cayce’s father, the uncertainty of the footage sources), deception and trust, and the benefits of philanthropy.

As with most of Gibson’s books there is a very appealing aesthetic to the world he creates.

Pirates & Emperors

This is great. via jwz

I started Wing Chun training last night. Bloody hard work and quite repetitive, but I can see the beauty of the forms.

Wing Chun articles:
Book 1 – The First Year
Book 2 – The Second Year
Book 3 – The Third Year
Book 4 – The Fourth Year
Book 5 – The Fifth Year
Book 6 – The Sixth Year
Book 7 – The Seventh Year
Book 8 – The EighthYear

Liberal voters watch out

via Dave G