Entries from April 2008

Monday, April 14th, 2008

The Best City For MAS is Bridgeport, CT?

I took the Kiplingler Which City is Best For You? quiz and got some interesting results.

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT
Austin-Round Round, TX
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
Trenton-Ewing, NJ
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Really? I don’t recall being wowed by Connecticut during my 2005 New England road trip. I haven’t been to Austin yet, although I’ve heard good things. Minneapolis? [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

The Simplest Investing Rule

Karl Denniger has some excellent advice for regular investors on how they can outperform the stock market indexes with minimal research and minimal trades.  His rule which he learned from his Chicago days is to compare the 20 Week Moving Average to the 50 Week Moving Average.  When the 20 WMA passes the 50 WMA [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Quick Note About CriticalMAS

The CriticalMAS is site about Michael Allen Smith (aka MAS). It is written by and for MAS. Over time my interests will change and as a result so will the content of this blog. Those topics may or may not be of interest to you. I don’t care. At this [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Secular Bear Market or Range Bound?

Although there are several good sources on the Internet for financial and economic information, if I had to pick my favorite it would be John Mauldin’s newsletter. The newsletter is free and is sent out twice a week, with John usually writing the Friday edition. You can sign-up for his newsletter at 2000wave.com.
The [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Riding a Horse in East San Diego

In September 2000, I rode a horse for the first time. Here is a photo of me with Dudley. I liked Dudley a lot better than that horse I rode in Uruguay.

Photo Gallery for My First Horse Ride (2000)

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Looking Presidential 2000

Prior to the 2000 election I created a web page where I tried to match each Presidential candidate with an actor playing the role of President. The exercise was to determine who looked the most Presidential.
Which of the candidates in the 2000 Presidential election look Presidential? One measure for looking [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

The Night of 100 ELVISes

On January 8th, 2000, Chamdo Brewery and Billiards in Herdon, VA hosted The Night of 100 ELVISes. Elvis impersonators gather for some karaoke at the DC area microbrewery. Dennis Murphy of the Don and Mike Radio Show is there to report the event. Using my awful digital camera I took [...]