I found a new character. Actually, perhaps 3 or 4 new characters. Who cares?
When I took Comparative Literature, they taught that there were a small number of basic story formats. Looking at an author like Zane Gray, how many very similar westerns did he write? My grandfather sat in his easy chair and read those, one after another.
Those story formats usually require a couple of stock characters, hero and villain for instance. Only, Joe Buck (or John Doe) needs to be interesting, and needs to be different from the good guy cowboy, in the last book. You need a character. Should you be gifted enough, and lucky enough, to create somebody like Harry Potter, that is very cool and you get a few books instead of only one.
My characters: The kid. The man with the dog. The failed school teacher. The 2 Davids, looking across the chess board at each other. The illiterate man who taught the kid to write. The bartender with the bleached hair, from the laundry. Aja, and Rosie.....
Actually, come to think of it, Pendajo Lito, Puta Lita, Panocha, and their mother.
A bunch of the people from Xanadu.
Hmmmmm, Pete Campbell had a room mate in college. He had a couple of them. They could be brought out too. Not my immediate cup of tea for story/script, but it's an idea. The Bag End people. The co-op people here are as un-memorable they get. I can sort of recall others beside Sharrier, but not much. A small number from the Green Lantern, couple film types, couple Kaarsburg types, couple of [Artful Dodger/Beautiful Young Man]'s.
They say Clam is crazy. I must make a point of hunting him up. Becoming crazy is an occupational hazard in cab driving. It was Clam who suggested blowing Coon a kiss.
The old time day shift people..................
KILLER WEB SITE!!!!!!
http://writingmatters.lee.net/front/topics/
Monday, March 26, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Lists:
...........................List A ------------------------ List B
..........................----------------- --------------------
.....................Jim Cramer ---------------Bernard Maydoff (spelling.. need to look this name up)
....................Peter Lynch
Something like that, without the primitive formatting.
This stuff goes over to Finance.Schnerk. And will come out of here as soon as finance becomes current.
Life certainly is weird. A career elementary school teacher told me that most kids that age would not know the meaning of the word 'constrained'. She went on to say that they would nod like they understood and forget it.
Ok. I guess......................
..........................----------------- --------------------
.....................Jim Cramer ---------------Bernard Maydoff (spelling.. need to look this name up)
....................Peter Lynch
Something like that, without the primitive formatting.
This stuff goes over to Finance.Schnerk. And will come out of here as soon as finance becomes current.
Life certainly is weird. A career elementary school teacher told me that most kids that age would not know the meaning of the word 'constrained'. She went on to say that they would nod like they understood and forget it.
Ok. I guess......................
Jack is Back ~~ The Official Finance Schnerk
I drifted away from this blog a while ago. My investing was boring. How these guys who have no positions of their own, can successfully work on securities trading, is a mystery to me.
The current strategy is to make small high risk bets (yeah that's right, call it for what it is, gambling) and expect to lose a bunch of them. How does this work? Let's say I have $8,000.00, and I decide that around $500 is the size bets I'm going to make. Further, I won't increase the size of bets until the gambling capital reaches $25,000.00, at which point I'm thinking I will increase it to around $800. How do the numbers work?
My current bet cost $400 + $55 = $455. I put the money down around a month ago, and it's value right this moment is around $2,500. Not cashing out is really hard, but I see it at around $3,000-$3,500, perhaps today, but for sure this week. Obviously, it's puts or calls.
Let's say I set my target at 75% per bet. If you make a bet you get back 175% of your gamble or you get nothing. Let's further say that you average 2 months per gamble. And finally let's say I can find 4 such bets to make. So they pay around $850 if they win, and $0 if they lose. That gives you around $3,000 at the end of 2 months, or around a 50% profit. Deal is, if you made the right options bet, and you have the guts to hang on to the position, 500% can happen too. What is that magic, how much will this make in a year, number? Enough for me to live on. The critical thing is, DO NOT LOSE YOUR CAPITAL.
I will be starting a couple of lists, they will be blog entries that get edited on an ongoing basis. No one can be on both lists. Most people would not be on either list.
The current strategy is to make small high risk bets (yeah that's right, call it for what it is, gambling) and expect to lose a bunch of them. How does this work? Let's say I have $8,000.00, and I decide that around $500 is the size bets I'm going to make. Further, I won't increase the size of bets until the gambling capital reaches $25,000.00, at which point I'm thinking I will increase it to around $800. How do the numbers work?
My current bet cost $400 + $55 = $455. I put the money down around a month ago, and it's value right this moment is around $2,500. Not cashing out is really hard, but I see it at around $3,000-$3,500, perhaps today, but for sure this week. Obviously, it's puts or calls.
Let's say I set my target at 75% per bet. If you make a bet you get back 175% of your gamble or you get nothing. Let's further say that you average 2 months per gamble. And finally let's say I can find 4 such bets to make. So they pay around $850 if they win, and $0 if they lose. That gives you around $3,000 at the end of 2 months, or around a 50% profit. Deal is, if you made the right options bet, and you have the guts to hang on to the position, 500% can happen too. What is that magic, how much will this make in a year, number? Enough for me to live on. The critical thing is, DO NOT LOSE YOUR CAPITAL.
I will be starting a couple of lists, they will be blog entries that get edited on an ongoing basis. No one can be on both lists. Most people would not be on either list.
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