Comments for Marginal Utility

Comment on The Boondock Saints II by Clogger

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:39:15 +0000

haha. Dude, I luuuuuurved Boondock Saints.

Comment on An obvious short? by Beefcake

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:51:38 +0000

Just tried to short these two stocks on Schwab. Here’s the message I got:

This stock is either ineligible to be shorted or shares must be borrowed externally. Lenders of hard-to-borrow securities charge a fee in the form of interest. Clients who wish to short a minimum of $100,000 of a hard-to-borrow security and are willing to pay a fee to cover the cost of borrowing those shares, may contact Securities Lending at 800-355-2448 to determine the fee amount.

The evidence suggests that even after paying shorting fees, hard-to-short stocks are profitable to short. But I certainly don’t want take on a $100,000 position!

Comment on Is the Schwab 2% card at risk? by CashBack

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:31:36 +0000

Btw, the Schwab card (or any other Visa Signature Card) qualifies for a special buy-one-get-one offer at Fandango.

Comment on Green and Gay? by Beefcake

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36:34 +0000

Funny, I’ve only seen the version of this ad with a midriff-baring female torso. Maybe it’s because I truthfully told the NYT that I’m a male.

Comment on Nightmares by CashBack

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:49:14 +0000

I don’t know if it’s this thread, but I just had the dream last night. I was supposed to give a talk, but I hadn’t written it yet. And I had another talk that I was going to use to ad-lib from, but I couldn’t find the file as the minutes ticked away toward showtime. I blame FiftyFive for starting this thread and messing some of us up.

Comment on Nightmares by CashBack

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:31:43 +0000

Hahahaha. I’m glad I didn’t become a good musician. But I do have variations where I have to deliver a message or sermon and I haven’t written anything.

Comment on Nightmares by Beefcake

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:13:27 +0000

I hadn’t had one of these nightmares in a while, but I had one last night — perhaps prompted by this thread. Except it took on a twist that had never happened before. I dreamed that I was about to perform a piano concerto at Carnegie Hall in an hour, but I had never practiced the piece, and I had bought the wrong outfit, so that the jacket and pants were mismatched. In fact, the pants were a red and white checked flannel.

Comment on Nightmares by CashBack

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:45:15 +0000

I still have these. The nightmares suck, but the thrill and relief of waking up and realizing that it was just a dream is simply awesome. I’m pretty screwed up.

Comment on Nightmares by Beefcake

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:22:58 +0000

I used to have exactly this dream at least once a year after college. My mom says she still gets them. Mine disappeared and were promptly replaced by an annual teaching nightmare once I took my current job.

Comment on Wall Street Bonus Madness by CashBack

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:49:30 +0000

There’s too much in the news about this topic not to post something. The interesting bits in this interview with Harvey Pitt are a) legally, AIG should have not paid bonuses and waited for the courts to force them, b) all the talk about taxing the bonuses is basically government seizure:

AIG bonuses seem ‘impossible to justify,’ Pitt says