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Food Digression (for your digestion): A brief overview of select indulgences

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Foods that I have found out that taste good, either through others, or directly by ingestion myself–

  • Banana-powdered-sugar french toast (through Larry B’s on State Street)
  • Baked-in-Bacon Waffles, with a side of bacon (yet to try this, they serve it at a place down University. Kudos (no pun intended) to Ryan, a guy I work with for pointing out this seemingly unbeatable combination.)
  • Stuffed pitas. Anything goes. Spinach and pepper jack cheese are a good combo.

Bacon Waffles is next up on the list. Indulge with me!

The Sun Kerl Bul-gogi Recipe

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Check it–korean barbequed beef marinade recipe for your convenience and enjoyment, straight from the mouth of Sun Kerl, aka, mum.

Bul-gogi Marinade

2 lbs round roast (Beef), sliced very thin, have the meat guy do this for you. Better beef works as well.
5 cloves of garlic (big cloves)
1/2 large sweet onion, or 1 small sweet onion
1/2 cup Coca-Cola
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pepper
1 Tablespoon sesame oil [optional]
Dash of salt to taste

Directions: Chop up onion and garlic or use a food processor. Mix in all other ingredients and stir well. Place meat in marinade, and place in fridge overnight, or for several hours (all day). Usable containers include a big ziplock bag or a large bowl covered with plastic wrap.

Grill meat for a short period, it does not take long to grill the thinly sliced beef. Serve and enjoy.

This stuff completely and utterly rules. Eat up!

Welcome to Summer

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So far so good–I have been eating well the past week, my first week of summer. Consumables included sushi, gyro pizza, a Fiesta burrito, fried ice cream, bul-gogi and stir fry, a few brats and some cereal. All quite exquisite and fantastic. Mostly because you can eat them, but also because they taste good.

I will be embarking upon Intermediate Macroeconomics this summer, along with putting the finishing touches on a Physics experiment in the depths of Chamberlin hall. Visitors welcome, cough, basement of Chamberlin, cough. The terrace will be frequented, and I invite anyone that’s around in Madison this summer to join me in some chillin’ activities.  I have quite a few books on the to-read-list, so you may catch me reading around this summer. And watching episodes of Lost that I have to catch up on. And watching the World Cup (booyah!).

My stocks have looked pretty good as of late, and so far I have not lost very much money. Score one for a good economy!  Regardless of ups and downs, I will continue to state that I will be constructing a stock-tracking-system and putting it on this site soon enough. So get ready.

For those starved for updates to pyktech, check out my del.icio.us links to the side. I do not update pyktech often, but I do keep my links updated daily when I am around a computer. There’s some interesting linkage there, and I encourage anyone that does not have a del.icio.us account to register for one, they really are enjoyable and convenient to use and reuse. No lie.

Enough babble, I’m off to enjoy more summer, and think of exciting ideas and act on them. Have a good summer-season everyone, and take it easy.

 

trading stocks, or, “how paul chose to spend $1000”

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So here I am, a college student, and I see some potential. The potential is owning stocks for a long amount of time. The trick is to get some stocks that will last that long–long meaning 10, 20, 30+ years. As is such, I would like to take the readers of pyktech on a ride. Here are a couple of my picks that I have invested with my five free trades from Firstrade.

INTC — Intel Corporation. This company is running on a low, and is my pick to move up a good amount in the coming years. It seems like a good time to buy a few shares, since there is some short-term resistance, ala AMD’s court case and missing quarterly earnings estimates driving the stock lower. Long term will hopefully drive this away, due to Intel’s more and more diversified business model into other sections of the semiconductor world. It also helps that I enjoy technology, and still see amazing growth for it in the future. At the center of that growth? Semiconductor companies of course.

JNJ — Johnson and Johnson. On a less technical side, Johnson and Johnson is my pick for a solid choice as far as dividends go over time. They pay out dividends quarterly, this combined with free DRIP (dividend reinvestment) will pay off in the long run, regardless of the fact that I own a very little number of JNJ shares at this point.

BAC — Bank of America. This is my “financial institution” stock, which will hopefully be a solid investment in the long term as well. Not looking for a huge gainer here, just a solid upward slope towards the positive side of the graph. They are riding a little bit lower lately, and my research seems to indicate that they can pull a better quarter, and keep that up in the future, barring a “second Great Depression.” I will go ahead and make a bold prediction that a 2nd GD has a small, 1% chance of happening (although a solid 1%, nonetheless), hence my confidence in BAC.So that’s it for now for the entertainment of watching me become either rich or slightly more poor. You will, in the future, be able to watch me lose or double my $1000, as I will soon be adding a new section of pyktech that will allow you to watch my $1000 grow or perhaps even crash into nothingness. Regardless, we can all watch it like it’s TV. Nice.

Opened my first trading account

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I have just finished my application for a Firstrade account, my first equities trading account, and soon will be funding it with some cash to take advantage of the free trades made available for new-traders. Granted, these trading comissions are very low, and I could probably gain the same amount from putting the money in a CoD for 6 months, but it’s a fine gesture nonetheless on the part of my new broker, and in the mean time (hopefully) I will make money on the money invested through my account far surpassing a modest CD interest rate.

This will be my second actual brokerage account, my first being my Vanguard account with some holdings in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Mutal Fund (VTSMX). This new account through Firstrade will be for my holdings in specific equities, and thus riskier. Only time will tell how well it will pay off, and given that I am young, I have quite a bit of time to wait.