146,000 shares in the 13:10 bar, not sure how many ticks in there before it got halted... even the reopen at $200 (low of re-open bar $192.22) made it possible to make some money, would have taken some skillful entry and initial stop placement.
Movies Watched -- To Be Takei
I never watched Star Trek and have never seen any of the movies ... not really interested in much sci-fi or fantasy (this is why I don't watch Game of Thrones) ... but I vaguely know who "Sulu" is ... interesting bits about the internment camps ... George Takei is kind of an interesting guy, a good champion for gay rights ... he's become a fussy little old gay man (see him as a young man in pic below) with a nagging, zhlubby Jewish? partner ... they make a strange and sort of terrible couple, but that's love, I guess.
Amarin Pop -- 1 Minute View
Again, didn't have scanner running but this should have popped up during lunch hour ... ding ding, wake up and take a look, old man. Crap risk reward if held into the close but it was ahead 30% at one point, so.... if day trading were easy everyone would have wavy thick hair like mine.
Etta Jones Channel
First 100 tracks generated by Pandora's algo ... bit of a mystery why Etta Jones is relatively unknown?
- Etta Jones -- Solitude
- Etta James -- Fool That I Am
- Nancy Wilson -- Teach Me Tonight
- Ray Charles -- Georgia On My Mind
- Etta Jones -- Nature Boy [i do like her style/sound]
- Louis Armstrong -- I Wonder
- Billie Holiday -- Fine And Mellow (Live)
- Otis Redding -- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
- Mose Allison -- You Won't Let Me Go
- Etta Jones -- Don't Go To Strangers
- Billie Holiday -- Stormy Weather
- Shirley Horn -- Fever
- Nat King Cole -- Unforgettable
- Etta Jones -- Old Folks
- Billie Holiday -- All Of Me
- Aretha Franklin -- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Mono Single Version)
- John Coltrane -- Say It (Over And Over Again)
- Ray Charles & The COunt Basie Orchestra -- Georgia On My Mind
- Dinah Washington – Crazy He Calls Me
- Ernestine Anderson – What A Difference A Day Made [she’s good]
- Etta James – The Man I Love
- Ella Fitzgerald – I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Etta Jones – I’ll Be There
- Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (1960)
- Etta James – These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
- Beryl Booker – Someone To Watch Over Me
- Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On
- Etta Jones – Love Walked In
- Ben Webster (Billie Holiday) – Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Dream A Little Dream Of Me
- Dinah Washington – There’ll Be Some Changes Made
- Billie Holiday – You Go To My Head
- Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa – Your Heart Is As Black As Night
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – The Nearness Of You
- Ray Brown Trio – Poor Butterfly (feat. Etta Jones)
- Madeleine Peyroux – Smile
- Etta Jones – If I Had You
- Billie Holiday – Blue Moon
- Nina Simone – Feeling Good
- Otis Redding – Stand By Me
- Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
- Billie Holiday – Until The Real Thing Comes Along
- Etta Jones – Blw Top Blues
- Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (1955)
- Blossom Dearie – Someone To Watch Over Me
- Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
- Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ben E. King – Stand By Me
- Ben Webster – When I Fall In Love
- Bille Holiday – The Very Thought Of You
- Etta Jones – Since I Fell For You
- Sarah Vaughan – They Can’t Take That Away From Me
- Ella Fitzgerald – Guilty
- Etta James – I Just Want To Make Love To You
- Maxine Sullivan – S’posin’
- Etta Jones – Someday My Prince Will Come
- Billie Holiday – Come Rain Or Shine
- Nina Simone – Exactly Like You [great piano playing from Nina]
- Etta James – All I Could Do Was Cry
- Ella Fitzgerald – Love You Madly
- Dinah Washington – Is You Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
- Billie Holiday – Loveless Love
- Diana Krall – I’m Just A Lucky So And So [boring white Canadian deserves a thumbs down]
- Pearl Bailey – Old Man, You Been Gone Too Long
- Etta Jones – Just Friends
- Dinah Washington – Embraceable You
- Sarah Vaughan – I’ve Got The World On A String
- Nat King Cole – Stardust
- Pearl Bailey – Frankie And Johnny
- Melody Gardot – Your Heart Is As Black As Night [blonde youngster, better than Krall]
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Don’t Be That Way
- Etta James – Stormy Weather
- Nina Simone – I Loves You Porgy
- Anita O’Day – Memories of You
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Tenderly
- Etta Jones – Mean To Me
- Louis Jordan – Is You Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
- Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (Live LA 9/20/64) [heard this one enough]
- Dinah Washington – After You’ve Gone
- Billie Holiday – Jim
- Etta Jones – Blues To End All Blues
- Carmen McRae – Exactly Like You
- Doris Day – It Had To Be You
- Etta James – Trust In Me
- Etta Jones – Salty Papa Blues
- Billie Holiday – I Can’t Face The Music
- Nat King Cole – When I Fall In Love
- Rosemary Clooney – Good Morning Heartache
- Etta Jones – Canadian Sunset
- Ella Fitzgerald – Isn’t It Romantic
- Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Love Is Here To Stay
- Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind [great live version with rowdy crowd]
- John Coltrane – Like Someone In Love
- Ella Fitzgerald – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
- Nancy Wilson – Call It Stormy Monday
- Billie Holiday – Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me [algo repeating itself]
- Georgie Auld – Taking A Chance On Love
- Etta Jones – How Deep Is The Ocean
- Dianne Reeves – The Nearness Of You / Misty
Movies Watched -- Force Majeure
Watched this one awhile ago and wrote a post but SquareSpace got hung up and lost it ... second attempt, foggier memory. Wasn't that thrilled with it. Beautiful Swedish couple with two bratty kids on a ski holiday in France (they have money). They have a close call with an avalanche and the Dad doesn't try to protect his wife and kids but runs away. This act of cowardice and selfishness makes everything fall apart (as it should). Movie makes weak modern men ask themselves, "would I do that?"
Movies Watched -- Crossfire
This one wasn't so great, preachy ... heavy-handed moralizing ... how big a problem was anti-Semitism in 1947? Jews being beaten to death in America by strangers for being Jews? Did this ever happen?... Mitchum is in it but he's kind of sleepwalking through it. Not recommended.
UPDATE: I watched the "featurette" that accompanied the movie and they explained the story was originally about a homosexual marine who was beaten to death by three of his fellow marines, which is believable ... probably happened hundreds of times? but the censors in 1955 wouldn't allow it, so they changed it to the improbable beating death of a Jew. As an aside, the many stories of soldiers killing their commanding officers or fellow soldiers is interesting, and I thought this was going to be Don Draper's story in Mad Men, but they pussyfooted around and made it an "accident" in his case.
Movies Watched -- Out of the Past
Enjoyed this one ... Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and various femmes fatale. Snappy dialogue, lots of precious one-liners. Wild California. This post says the mansion on Lake Tahoe is "Vikingsholm." Noir from 1947. See it if you get the chance.
Avago and Broadcom Pops, 1 Minute View
Didn't have the scanner running but clearly it would have picked these up pronto ... refresh rate ideally 10 seconds on the scan? Dunno, will have to work on it once back in the proper timezone ... when I'm not doing yard work. Always happy to talk with humans (no bots, please) who caught this in real-time.
Crick to enrarge
Crick to enrarge
My buddy @HCPG was kind enough to share a ten tick chart of BRCM with me ... this is a better way to view these pops:
StockTwits stream for AVGO ... NewsHedge_Squawk and danshep55 on top of it.
StockTwits stream for BRCM ... OpenOutcrier not on his usual game with a 14:00 post:
Beijing Restaurants -- Noodle Bar
I scootered over to the Jing A Taproom intending to have lunch there only to discover that they open at 5 PM. It's up in the 1949 compound behind the IBM building. It took me 18 minutes and 8 seconds (approximately) to get there from my office the way the scooter flies (via Er Huan).
Below are the hours of the Jing A Taproom. There was a friendly handsome bearded white guy in there (in addition to a gaggle of youngsters staring into laptops) who told me they open at 5 PM. I should have called ahead but that isn't my style.
See the QR code there? Yes, big in China.
Next door to the Taproom is the old Noodle Bar, which has been there for many many years, so I had lunch there. Here's the lunch menu:
I got the set lunch (beef brisket, tendon, and tripe) with thick spinach noodles, snack, and oolong tea for 48 kuai (US$7.74) (actually turned out to be 58 kuai (US$9.35) since the spinach noodles are 10 kuai extra -- not disclosed on the menu or verbally at the time, to my annoyance, though of course they were effusively apologetic later and I didn't make a scene like I would have done in my youth, mainly to show off my ability to scream "fluently" and at length in Chinese) .
I also got a small bottle of Heineken for the low low price of 45 kuai (US$7.25) since I was in the mood for beer, any beer. Oh, I also got the deep-fried tofu cubes with pepper and salt, which are excellent beer food, if you didn't know.
Deep-fried tofu, good beer food
You can sit in the courtyard, which was pleasant on a warm day like today, though the air quality left something to be desired (05-27-2015 12:00; PM2.5; 111.0; 180; Unhealthy (at 24-hour exposure at this level)). Below are my thick spinach noodles with brisket, tripe and tendon (see them all floating there?). They were OK. I'm not big on tripe or tendon but I'm not picky either, I'll eat anything (once).
Spinach noodley with floating bits
There is a 10% service charge (the horror!?!), but they do take credit cards and were quick with the fapiao. They did collect the money upfront which always makes me uncomfortable, like they think you're going to pull a runner, but it's actually nice simply to get up and leave when you're finished. Grand total was 133 kuai (US$21.44).
I scootered back to the office via San Huan which took 16 minutes 47 seconds (approximately) the way the scooter flies.
salesforce.com Pop, 1 Minute View
Things that take off during the lunch hour (esp. before a three day weekend) really stand out ... every day trader (and our bot brethren) on planet earth was on top of this from 13:02.
StockTwits stream at the time ... David Faber talking on CNBC the cause? ... Newshedge_Squawk on top of it as usual followed by a gentleman in Moscow ... it's a small world.