tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67489850911148409572012-02-16T10:09:13.577-05:00ms9Autograph Collecting, Stock Trading, Excel Chart Creating, Travel to India, Concert Reviews, or Whatever Else Is On My MindMS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748985091114840957.post-13811416020145576152011-12-23T11:50:00.039-05:002011-12-31T18:56:55.468-05:00Getting Wes Welker's Autograph at a Poorly Designed SigningWes Welker, wide receiver for the New England Patriots, appeared at Whole Foods in Bellingham, MA on the evening of Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011, for a free signing to promote Bonk Breakers, a new line of energy bars. It was billed on the Whole Foods website and Facebook page as a “Meet and Greet” which would take place from 5-7 pm. It was also eventually propagated to some local newspapers, radio MS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748985091114840957.post-20723135869182285902009-12-07T21:56:00.022-05:002009-12-19T00:18:02.976-05:00My Lady Gaga Concert StoryBackgroundI recently have become a big fan of Lady Gaga, in particular right after her Saturday Night Live musical guest appearance on 10/3/2009. I felt she gave off a great energy while singing live there, and I also loved her off-the-wall NYC song, too. It was just real. What an up 'n comer. I heard she was coming to Boston for a concert, so I was all ears. I haven't been to a concert in ages. MS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748985091114840957.post-31588808174929390692009-08-30T16:44:00.029-04:002009-09-21T22:10:45.302-04:00A Call to Indian Merchants and/or their Suppliers to Stop Putting Rocks into their Rice!Tuesday, August 4, 2009Imagine you sit down to eat your breakfast, taking a spoonful of it, but only to bite down into a little rock. Ouch!, that's what happened to me this morning. My in-laws (whom I'm staying with here in Kolkata, India for a month) made a nice chira dish, which I'm now going to use for analysis. As an American, I didn't really know what chira was, so I looked it up. It's a MS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748985091114840957.post-4264765457422732792009-07-20T02:28:00.012-04:002010-05-14T18:23:16.850-04:00Making Your Own Stock Charts vs. Getting Permission from Big Corporations to Use TheirsThis post is a follow-up to my last article.I had originally written that article the Friday evening of the last day of its embedded chart (July 10), just over a week ago. It was all done and ready to post in a timely fashion until I hit a snag. I realized I needed permission from ETrade to post the screenshot I had taken of their stock chart (and had Photoshop'd green arrows over). So I emailed MS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748985091114840957.post-59788440577473721382009-07-19T23:17:00.034-04:002010-05-14T18:22:38.496-04:00How to Make Money on a Falling Stock Without Shorting: Case in Point, Panera Bread (PNRA)Over the past month I've had fun trading the stock Panera Bread (ticker = PNRA). I've been watching it for quite some time now, getting a sense of it and its trends, before finally diving in a month ago. I flipped it 7 times this past month, making a small gain each time, and all while the stock was going DOWN in general over that time period. I want to illustrate how this is possible and how MS9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10428934359787103145noreply@blogger.com1