Mid-Day Thought

Its nice to come off the golf course and see all the holdings in the green. I shot an 89 today with 5 penalty strokes due to overly aggressive play off the tees. I crushed 2 drives over 300. Those shots felt absolutely perfect. I was attacked by a stray dog while trying to recapture a Pro VI that clanked off a house. Later, a groundhog felt the wrath of the back left tire of our cart. Its going to be a long winter, we smashed that rodents head to pieces.

Off to eat Italian Sausage and then work on the tan.

AAPL Update

iCar? Wow.

Oatmeal Buy: BWLD

Purchased 29 Shares At 34.89

The buildup of the holocaust of the chicken begins in a week as football season kicks off.

We could have been Rich. . .

If you would have invested 10k in CROX exactly 1 year ago, the measly 10k would be worth 200k today.

Not a bad year.

Today, CROX announced the launch of their new clothing line.



The Colorado-based company said it would produce clothing for men and children that incorporates its Croslite material, which is used in its popular line of clogs and sandals.

Still calling CROX a Fad??? Maybe it's time to start building a position in a future household clothing brand.

Back To The Future

After spotting 3 1982 Delorean's in a row cruising down Woodward for the Dream Cruise, I decided to price these bad mutha's. There are 5 on eBay. Mint condition, 1,600 miles: $27K. Excellect condition, 8,700 miles: $9K (still has 5 days left). Out of the price range for now, but not for long.

With my money made hustling not only the BHam rich, but also my fellow associates, I would like to take a bite out of BWLD. Yummy. They pour a great Budweiser.

Big Money Fantasy Draft is tonight. Do your homework.

iPhone In My Future?

NEW YORK (AP)--A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone to AT&T Inc.'s (T) wireless network, freeing the most-hyped cellphone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.

George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone's cellular technology.

While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.

"That's the big thing," said Hotz, in a phone interview from his home in Glen Rock.

The phone, which combines an innovative touch-screen interface with the media- playing abilities of the iPod, is sold only in the U.S.

Calls to AT&T and Apple for comment were not immediately returned.

The hack, which Hotz posted Thursday to his blog, is complicated and requires skill with both soldering and software. It takes about two hours to perform. Since the details are public, it seems likely that a small industry may spring up to buy U.S. iPhones, unlock them and send them overseas.

"That's exactly, like, what I don't want," Hotz said. "I don't want people making money off this."

He said he wished he could make the instructions simpler, so users could modify the phones themselves.

"But that's the simplest I could make them," Hotz said.

The modification leaves the iPhone's many functions, including a built-in camera and the ability to access Wi-Fi networks, intact. The only thing that won't work is the "visual voicemail" feature, which shows voice messages as if they were incoming e-mail.

Hotz collaborated online with four other people, two of them in Russia, to develop the unlocking process.

"Then there are two guys who I think are somewhere U.S.-side," Hotz said. He knows them only by their online handles.

Trash Is Money

Waste Management (WMI: NYSE) By Banc of America Securities ($36.00, Aug. 20, 2007)

WE ARE INITIATING COVERAGE OF Waste Management with a Buy rating and $41 price target.

Waste Management generated revenue of $13 billion in 2006, of which 56% was derived from collection of municipal solid waste, 20% from landfill operations, 7% from recycling and 6% from waste-to-energy (WTE). The company is the largest municipal solid-waste collection and disposal company in North America based on its network of 283 landfills and 413 collection companies in 49 states throughout the U.S.

The Difference Between Sexes

Oatmeal Buy: HANS

Purchased 22 shares of HANS @ 43.86.

Oatmeal Buy: MVIS

Bought 223 shares at 5.54

Odyssey's Hike in Yosemite Valley of Yosemite National Park

PJ recently requested some footage of my trip to Yosemite because of his yearning to return to his roots in Tahoe. So, not to disappoint him, I took this bit of footage and gave a narrative for the viewers.

In loving memory of Merv Griffin . . ..

No Merv Griffin did not buy any MVIS shares. He didn't need to. He was the creator of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. With his sudden death in my mind, it leaves me thinking about those beautiful memories of the family sitting around the dinner table eating almond chicken without the almonds which would lead to father Johnson going bi-polar on the staff of Oceania, but that's besides the point. So anyways, I am left with the vivid memory of me kicking the living poo poo out of each one of you during each family Jeopardy competition . . . .

Go long on MVIS and me being the smartest Johnson to grace this earth!

Amazing Trio

kids guitar trio

Alexander Tokman confronts Huge MVIS shortseller

Late Day Thought:

Great stocks on sale:

AAPL: 125.00

MVIS: 4.83

BWLD: 35.67

Note: CROX shares never go down.

Note II: AAPL is more than undervalued.

Oatmeal Buy: MVIS

Purchased 280 shares at 4.99

Working With A Monster: Literally

HANS is up a little over 13% today. Projected earnings were absolutely crushed. Red bull drinking analysts said they'd hit $218 million. The Green Monster chuckled to himself and pissed out $280 million. JJ and I spend a combined $30 a week on these killer boosts of energy. Red bull is in almost every bar cooler across the nation. Why not a Green Monster vodka. Better name, better taste, more energy. This company is money.

Bonds is a fraud.

Paris is on the back porch reading his monthly Maxim while getting some sun. Life is good.

Cramer Goes Apeshit on the Fed

Bat Adventures

JJ and I were playing the Wii in the basement last night. While he was taking a chip, what I thought was a bird flew by. It took a second to register. Was that part of the game? A quick turn around followed by JJ yelling "BAT!" turned things up a notch. The game would have to be postponed. The bat was swooping around the basement. Still with the Wii remotes in hand, we both barreled over chairs and boxes to get upstairs. We made it. We were peaking around the door to the basement. OMG! Out of hell the devil came at about 50 mph. JJ quickly slammed the door and we both dove backwards, landing on our backs. Someone's face would've been ripped off if JJ didn't get that door shut.

Long story short, the bat is trapped in the storage area. It will stay there till its death. Starvation sucks.

BWLD: WTF???

BWLD is currently down a whopping 19% today.

Their quarterly sales were reported yesterday. Analysts had predicted $77.3 million for the quarter. What do you think they did? $76 million. Are you kidding me. Dougherty & Co. also downgraded BWLD from BUY to NEUTRAL. They then stated a long term bullish outlook on BWLD.

BWLD barely missed the mark. Definitely not worthy of the hit they took in the market. With college and pro football about to kick off, chickens will be slaughtered in mass quantities every weekend. No doubt about it.

Everyone likes a sale. BWLD is on clearance.

MVIS got Rodney Stronged. Pathetic. Another good time to buy.

GO LONG MVIS . . . . BLAH BLAH BLAH

GO LONG MVIS, that's what everybody keeps saying. BLAH BLAH BLAH. I am sick and tired of waiting for MVIS. They sign a deal with Motorola. BLAH BLAH BLAH. They talk about this and that and how great they are. BLAH BLAH BLAH. All this talk makes me very upset. How upset? Well, it makes me want to cry. But since my stash of money that I use as kleenex was lost today when MVIS decided to jump off a cliff, I am now left with Dad's man bra (he once secretly wore one when he had a slight case of gynecomastia, a.k.a. Man Cans) to wipe my tears of sadness away.