Archive for the 'Annoying Things' Category

Cramer and Island Reversals

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

For some reason I had CNBC on this morning by mistake.  I no longer wtach CNBC as I cannot stand listening to Cramer in the morning, or anytime really.  I laughed out loud when I heard him say “Yeah, huge island reversal in Apple yesterday, not to get too technical…” or somehting like that.  Hmm.  [...]

Damned Speed Bumps

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

In Chicago, I spend alot of time driving on city streets.  On the minor streets, the city has placed scads of speed bumps.  Now the purpose of the speed bump is to make it so people do not go too fast down a residential street where there may be children or pets or people unexpectedly [...]

Movie and Popcorn Prices. Oh and 3-D

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

I took my kids to see The Adventures of Tin-Tin (actually a pretty good movie) on Tuesday at 1:30PM.  The movie cost us $7.50 for one adult matinee and $5.50 each for two kids.  A couple bucks more than I was expecting for a mid-day weekday movie.  Then of course the kids wanted popcorn and [...]