Saturday night I was walking home from friends house when I tripped over a set of railroad tracks and caught myself before I hit the pavement. I’m not exactly sure how I missed such a thing because those candy stripped caution bars seem like pretty obvious. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t be surprised if I broke a few bones, not crucial ones, I mean I can still walk. You do have like 345688678 (scientific fact) bones in your foot so I can spare a few. This got me to thinking about walking and how I am the lone believer in my group of friends of its efficiency. I still love walking but I can hardly peel my friends from there car keys to walk three lousy blocks. I just don’t get it, it takes the minimalist amount of effort and you don’t even have to find parking. Maybe I’m crazy or maybe I just need less lazy stinkin friends.
Sup Wall Street, how you doing today? It appears the weekend did you some good. Stocks recovered slightly this morning on news that the U.S. government will bail out mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I read some headlines that Yahoo! has tanked even more so I headed over to PredictWallStreet to check out sentiment and price. YHOO is currently 17.96, a five year low for the company. Checking the one week sentiment shows that sentiment is actually UP and in the bullish territory. Perhaps people are confident in its epic fail capabilities. Ha. No, actually, in my opinion, a lot of Yahoo! shareholders are holding on tight to any hope left but I feel sentiment will soon catch up and match its price-down, down, down. I’m curious to see what the future holds for Yahoo! By default, my little fingers always end up taking me straight back to Yahoo! for searching since I’ve been using it since Tech Lit in high school, but I’m slowly trying to transition to Google. What if one day I sign on and www.yahoo.com is 404ed. What are the Yahooligans going to do?!
And speaking of Google, lets go with an internet search theme here today, GOOG is down almost 22 points. In my own expertise opinion (in case sarcasm doesn’t read over the internet, thats a joke), I would get in on Google right now. Its an expensive stock, but Google doesn’t seem to be waning anytime soon and in the long term scope of things, it probably is just that; a good long term investment. Unless the internet dies tomorrow, I don’t see Google becoming extinct. Sentiment for Google is pretty normal right now, although it was experiencing upward surges at the beginning of the month. It feels like every week Google is on the brink of releasing some new product (phone, browser, mobile shmobile) yet all we get is news articles and tech tickers explaining how hip and cool Google is. Well, you know what? I’m tired of the popular kids being the self-proclaimed popular kids. If you’re gonna be cool, I want to see some facts, I want some evidence as to why I should think you are cooler than I am. There unveiling something at TechCrunch tomorrow.. .something probably cool and something probably awesome. Does anyone know what it is? Nope.
In my ongoing search for new stocks and companies to read about, I turn to the Reputation Based Message Boards at PredictWallStreet. This isn’t the regs, this is the specialized, future of message boards. It takes your accuracy on securities from the prediction widget and translates it to a sort of reputation so people can see if they want to listen to your quips on the board or not. If you’re really good at predicting, your opinion and post is that much more valuable. Isn’t this how the whole world should be? It just makes so much sense. Anyhoo, so I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about SMKG so I’m onto researching that to see what all the buzz is about.
I’m going to Ikea today to eat Swedish meatballs and spend money I don’t have on things I don’t need that will get trashed by my other three college roommates. I also burnt my wrist on the exact spot it rests on my laptop when I type making a dilla (quesadilla) this weekend and its starting to hurt. So, ciao.
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