-if a guy goes to the gym on a sunday afternoon, that means he doesn't have a girlfriend right? if you have a girlfriend, sunday afternoon is couple time
-breaking bad. i really want walt to get away with it. i don't know why i'm still rooting for him. he's done some bad bad bad things. but he's so clever and smart. the video confession was genius. hank and marie kind of annoy me, marie especially. she seems like the serious/boring teacher that follows every rule and no one likes. just relax. and i know it's unreasonable, but i feel like hank needs to mind his own business. big deal, so he cooked some meth like a boss, but he's done now. get over yourself
-stamps.com is legit. speaking of Bsimmons, on his latest podcast, cousin sal brought up the idea of a breaking bad meth party. people go to a house to watch the last episode, but before it starts, everyone tries meth. not funnyiknow
-i want to buy a plain white shirt that says "EXTROVERT" in big bold letters across the front.
-Netflix's show Orange is the New Black is really good. really really good. i flew thru the first season, and i have no attention span
-i've watched the trailer for spectacular now 7 times now (she is from the Descendants with george clooney, and he is from Project X, just fyi). i'm convinced it's going to be very very good. i wish i could bet on it. even if "very very good" was like -1500. shits a lock! EZ
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
500
this is the best movie of the summer. and i haven't seen it yet
from the writers OF WHAT MOVIE?
oh, and i spy saul goodman
Sunday, August 25, 2013
bobby's world
i think a big misconception about stock/trading is that you can only make money when a stock goes up.
Buy a stock at $10, and watch it go up to $100. EASY.
however, you can also make money if a stock goes down. OR you can make money if you think a stock will make a big move in either direction (up or down). OR you can make money if you think a stock will not make a big move in either direction (trade relatively flat)
ways to make money.
1. you think GOOGle stock will go up. you buy GOOGle stock at $100, it goes up to $250. you make $150
2. you think GOOG stock will go down, so you "short" the stock (or borrow the stock). basically, you sell the stock at $100, it goes down to $40, you buy the stock back. you make $60.
3. you think GOOG stock will make a big move in the near future, you think it will go up OR down, but you're not sure which. so you buy the "straddle" which is an investment strategy consisting of two different stock options. (car insurance example. basically, you buy special car insurance because you think something crazy is going to happen, you just don't know exactly what. but you know nothing is NOT going to happen *yes double negative...so you buy special car insurance. something crazy DOES happen. and you exercise the insurance)
4. you think GOOG stock will NOT make a big move in the near future. if GOOG is worth $100, you think that GOOG will stay around $100 for the near future. so you sell or "short the straddle". (example, basically, instead of buying special car insurance, you SELL the special car insurance to someone else, you collect money for selling the special car insurance. and hope that the car insurance expires worthless)
sell selll sell
Buy a stock at $10, and watch it go up to $100. EASY.
however, you can also make money if a stock goes down. OR you can make money if you think a stock will make a big move in either direction (up or down). OR you can make money if you think a stock will not make a big move in either direction (trade relatively flat)
ways to make money.
1. you think GOOGle stock will go up. you buy GOOGle stock at $100, it goes up to $250. you make $150
2. you think GOOG stock will go down, so you "short" the stock (or borrow the stock). basically, you sell the stock at $100, it goes down to $40, you buy the stock back. you make $60.
3. you think GOOG stock will make a big move in the near future, you think it will go up OR down, but you're not sure which. so you buy the "straddle" which is an investment strategy consisting of two different stock options. (car insurance example. basically, you buy special car insurance because you think something crazy is going to happen, you just don't know exactly what. but you know nothing is NOT going to happen *yes double negative...so you buy special car insurance. something crazy DOES happen. and you exercise the insurance)
4. you think GOOG stock will NOT make a big move in the near future. if GOOG is worth $100, you think that GOOG will stay around $100 for the near future. so you sell or "short the straddle". (example, basically, instead of buying special car insurance, you SELL the special car insurance to someone else, you collect money for selling the special car insurance. and hope that the car insurance expires worthless)
sell selll sell
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
blssing
i love the bus system
it's cheap, convenient for the most part. i like taking the bus to work. i'm half asleep anyway so it's nice, you don't have to worry about parking, you can read your emails and maybe check deadspin or gawker.
it's nice to know that if you get blindfolded and dropped anywhere in SF, you're pretty much always 2 buses away from getting home
i would only change 2 things.
-i would put hand sanitizer dispensers in the front and back. it's just too damn dirty. one time i saw a homeless man wipe his bloody hand on the seat next to him. soooooo dirty. or when i see some little kid pick his nose then touch all the seats.
-i would also limit the stops each bus makes. for example, the 38bus probably stops 24 times from my house to union square. there's also a 38L (limited) bus that probably only stops 10-12 times from my house to union square. so the 38L bus skips 1 or 2 of the normal 38bus stops. so it probably saves 15-20 minutes off the trip. i really don't understand why there needs to be so many stops so close to each other. WALK PEOPLE...sometimes, one stop is like a 1.5 minute walk away from the next stop. no no no. cut that shit out
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. i understand that the seats in the front of the bus should be reserved for seniors. i get that. in the morning, my bus is probably 3/4 full, so everyone gets a seat. BUT, on the way home after work, the bus is always full with people standing most of the trip. luckily for me, i get on the bus pretty early in the route, so i always sit toward the back. about mid trip, the bus is full with people standing. and sometimes there are old people standing in the back. (like, not old old. if they were legit old, i'd offer my seat). and i feel like the "nice" thing to do is offer my seat, but fuck, i'm tired too. and if you think you're thaaat old, you should go to the front where you belong. i just stare out the window or at my phone and try not to make eye contact. sometimes i can just feel them looking at me like i'm some rude punkass kid who watches youtube videos on his iphone
oh
it's cheap, convenient for the most part. i like taking the bus to work. i'm half asleep anyway so it's nice, you don't have to worry about parking, you can read your emails and maybe check deadspin or gawker.
it's nice to know that if you get blindfolded and dropped anywhere in SF, you're pretty much always 2 buses away from getting home
i would only change 2 things.
-i would put hand sanitizer dispensers in the front and back. it's just too damn dirty. one time i saw a homeless man wipe his bloody hand on the seat next to him. soooooo dirty. or when i see some little kid pick his nose then touch all the seats.
-i would also limit the stops each bus makes. for example, the 38bus probably stops 24 times from my house to union square. there's also a 38L (limited) bus that probably only stops 10-12 times from my house to union square. so the 38L bus skips 1 or 2 of the normal 38bus stops. so it probably saves 15-20 minutes off the trip. i really don't understand why there needs to be so many stops so close to each other. WALK PEOPLE...sometimes, one stop is like a 1.5 minute walk away from the next stop. no no no. cut that shit out
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. i understand that the seats in the front of the bus should be reserved for seniors. i get that. in the morning, my bus is probably 3/4 full, so everyone gets a seat. BUT, on the way home after work, the bus is always full with people standing most of the trip. luckily for me, i get on the bus pretty early in the route, so i always sit toward the back. about mid trip, the bus is full with people standing. and sometimes there are old people standing in the back. (like, not old old. if they were legit old, i'd offer my seat). and i feel like the "nice" thing to do is offer my seat, but fuck, i'm tired too. and if you think you're thaaat old, you should go to the front where you belong. i just stare out the window or at my phone and try not to make eye contact. sometimes i can just feel them looking at me like i'm some rude punkass kid who watches youtube videos on his iphone
oh
Monday, August 19, 2013
you can laugh, it's ok
so back in february or march, i thought i was a savvy ticket scalper.
i was at work and i got an email from ticketmaster that justin bieber concert tix (for a july concert ) will go on sale in an hour. the last time he was in the bay area, it sold out. so i was thinking alright, i'll try and buy to scalp. as soon as they went on sale, i kept refreshing my ticketmaster over, and over, and over....until finally i had the option to buy 2 upper level tickets. the 2 tickets were part of the "vip baby package" and were about $450 for the pair. i thought that was pretty expensive for 2 upper level tickets, but i thought fuck it, i need to buy because its def going to sell out...and i'll flip pretty easily. #layup
a couple months go by, and i never got the tickets in the mail. so i looked up the concert on stubhub and ticketmaster. and yes, it sold out. niice! then i do a little more research and find out some bad news...so this "vip baby package" consists of Justin Bieber merchandise that will be shipped to the billing address AFTER the concert. #fuckme
so basically, i have to sell my shitty upper level tickets WITHOUT the bieber merch. of course these assholes couldn't send me the merchandise BEFORE the show. that way i could at least sell the merch+tickets for roughly what i paid for.
fast forward to a couple weeks before the concert. and for whatever reason, ticket prices on stubhub and craigslist tankkkkkkk. like, no one wants to go apparently. long story short, i think i sell the bieber tickets for about $40 each.
and of course, a week or two after the concert. i get my bieber merchandise sent to my place.
a towel that says "swaggy"????? and a bag (it's reversible by the way) that also says swaggy???
ouch. it hurt. but that's ok.
i've lost big on bieber, made decent on legendsofsummer, lost big on rolling stones (which was jon's idea, he wanted to split expensive tix and we got murdered), and i made a little from smaller edm shows.
how much am i up or down after it all?
i'm about even
so back in february or march, i thought i was a savvy ticket scalper.
i was at work and i got an email from ticketmaster that justin bieber concert tix (for a july concert ) will go on sale in an hour. the last time he was in the bay area, it sold out. so i was thinking alright, i'll try and buy to scalp. as soon as they went on sale, i kept refreshing my ticketmaster over, and over, and over....until finally i had the option to buy 2 upper level tickets. the 2 tickets were part of the "vip baby package" and were about $450 for the pair. i thought that was pretty expensive for 2 upper level tickets, but i thought fuck it, i need to buy because its def going to sell out...and i'll flip pretty easily. #layup
a couple months go by, and i never got the tickets in the mail. so i looked up the concert on stubhub and ticketmaster. and yes, it sold out. niice! then i do a little more research and find out some bad news...so this "vip baby package" consists of Justin Bieber merchandise that will be shipped to the billing address AFTER the concert. #fuckme
so basically, i have to sell my shitty upper level tickets WITHOUT the bieber merch. of course these assholes couldn't send me the merchandise BEFORE the show. that way i could at least sell the merch+tickets for roughly what i paid for.
fast forward to a couple weeks before the concert. and for whatever reason, ticket prices on stubhub and craigslist tankkkkkkk. like, no one wants to go apparently. long story short, i think i sell the bieber tickets for about $40 each.
and of course, a week or two after the concert. i get my bieber merchandise sent to my place.
a towel that says "swaggy"????? and a bag (it's reversible by the way) that also says swaggy???
ouch. it hurt. but that's ok.
i've lost big on bieber, made decent on legendsofsummer, lost big on rolling stones (which was jon's idea, he wanted to split expensive tix and we got murdered), and i made a little from smaller edm shows.
how much am i up or down after it all?
i'm about even
see what i did there? no?
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
BREAKING B.
umm yeah, how can i help make this happen?
i just became a pretty big elon muSk fan. i think i want hyperloop more then i want online poker back. i thiiiiink. not quite sure yet.
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in bill simmons last podcast (august 12th). he went off on a tangent and said he hates deep dish pizza. he says "deep dish pizza is disgusting...it's a horrible thing to put in your body" and he also says deep dish pizza fans "could go to hell".
ouch. i loved deep dish pizza. or, i used to love it. ouch. or maybe bill is right? i'm so confused.
this is like santa telling a 6 year old boy that video games are disgusting and horrible. great example
Friday, August 9, 2013
confession
i've never told anyone this before. but here it goes.
back in 2010, sometime after i graduated from college (has it really been 3 years ago?), the baseball gods approached me and offered me a deal. basically they were aware of how frustrated i was with Bay Area Sports. it was during the 2010 baseball season... and the gods offered me what they called a "world series guarantee deal"
they first offered "we will guarantee 1 Giants world series championship in the next 30 years. only 1, nothing more nothing less. we will guarantee 1 San francisco giants WS title for the next 30 years"
i thought it was interesting, but using my pawn-stars style skills, i obviously countered. i wanted 5 titles in the next 15 years. they said no. long story short, we agreed on this deal:
The SF giants will win the world Series 2 times in the next 20 years.
so...we are in the 4th year of the deal. and the giants have already won the 2 titles. i'm pretty sure i made a good deal, but now what?
back in 2010, sometime after i graduated from college (has it really been 3 years ago?), the baseball gods approached me and offered me a deal. basically they were aware of how frustrated i was with Bay Area Sports. it was during the 2010 baseball season... and the gods offered me what they called a "world series guarantee deal"
they first offered "we will guarantee 1 Giants world series championship in the next 30 years. only 1, nothing more nothing less. we will guarantee 1 San francisco giants WS title for the next 30 years"
i thought it was interesting, but using my pawn-stars style skills, i obviously countered. i wanted 5 titles in the next 15 years. they said no. long story short, we agreed on this deal:
The SF giants will win the world Series 2 times in the next 20 years.
so...we are in the 4th year of the deal. and the giants have already won the 2 titles. i'm pretty sure i made a good deal, but now what?
Thursday, August 8, 2013
2012-13 National Treasures
-So the best product of the year is National Treasures basketball, one box costs about $590-610 (the product was released last Wednesday)
-I have been trying to convince scottmizuno.com to split a box with me for the past 3 years. he finally caved
-we both agreed, this is a stupid purchase if you're trying to make money. we both agreed that the odds of our box containing cards worth more then $600 was about 20%...which means 80% of the time we would be losing money.
-1st annual National Treasures box break
-present in the room. me scott steve rick jon jill and angela
#mature #iknow
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Notes:
0:47 - for those that don't know, nick young's twitter handle is swaggyP. which is amazing
3:45 - jill was recording with my phone but my pieceofshit phone's data was full and stopped recordring
4:50 - who?? Viacheslav Kravtsov??
5:12 - you can kind of hear me and scott talking. there was only one more card left. and the box had been very below average. so we were both thinking that a very good card was coming next..
so we slow-rolled it like gangsters, and boom...ANTHONY DAVIS ROOKIE AUTOGRAPHED PATCH GOLD #16/25.
we sold it on ebay the next day for just under five thousanddddd dollars
just kidding, but we sold it for a decent little profit.
-I have been trying to convince scottmizuno.com to split a box with me for the past 3 years. he finally caved
-we both agreed, this is a stupid purchase if you're trying to make money. we both agreed that the odds of our box containing cards worth more then $600 was about 20%...which means 80% of the time we would be losing money.
-1st annual National Treasures box break
-present in the room. me scott steve rick jon jill and angela
#mature #iknow
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Notes:
0:47 - for those that don't know, nick young's twitter handle is swaggyP. which is amazing
3:45 - jill was recording with my phone but my pieceofshit phone's data was full and stopped recordring
4:50 - who?? Viacheslav Kravtsov??
5:12 - you can kind of hear me and scott talking. there was only one more card left. and the box had been very below average. so we were both thinking that a very good card was coming next..
so we slow-rolled it like gangsters, and boom...ANTHONY DAVIS ROOKIE AUTOGRAPHED PATCH GOLD #16/25.
we sold it on ebay the next day for just under five thousanddddd dollars
just kidding, but we sold it for a decent little profit.
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