Chris Cortez

From the ASPO Conference, October 2007.

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And here's Jon Stewart's take on Cramer's answer:

Here's Cramer's take from a week ago responding to a question about whether to sell Bear Stearns:

More to come here...

But pushing off an idea from a list of outperforming industries, disk drive companies - at least the best one(s) - should be a sure thing, even when other tech struggles.

I'll try to edit this and flesh out the idea when it's not 1:11 AM and I haven't just spent the last 12 hours repainting the girls' playroom...

For now, who are the $DDX companies?

ADPT - ADAPTEC INC 2.52
HTCH - HUTCHINSON TECH 15.90
IMN - IMATION CP 21.15
IOM - IOMEGA CP NEW 3.26
NTAP - NETWORK APPLIANCE 21.08
QI - QIMONDA AG ADS 4.50
SNDK - SANDISK CP 22.15
STX - SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY 22.21

This was very close to the girls' first birthday, the day after Freya walked for the first time.

The light is low and the video quality is pretty terrible, but who can resist these little cuties at about a year and a half? This was taken early in the morning sometime in January 2007. They still love hats, and shoes, and all things dress-up...

This article in the New York Times is about young folks giving up city life for boutique organic farming.

Tough way to end the week in the markets.

The DOW is off almost 300 points as I write this and the dollar has sunk to historical lows. I am amazed listening to CNBC and other MSM at how much credence they give the Goldilocks stuff and how surprised and skeptical they seem about the Roubini-type scenarios playing out.

I've been expecting this and much worse for over a year now. For anyone paying attention, there have been plenty of accurate predictions about how several concurrent events -- the bursting of the housing bubble, the repatriation of the yen carry trade, the ascension of China, the repercussions of so much liquidity injection by the Fed -- would likely play out. The rest remains to be seen, but so far the decline is consistent with stuff I've been reading for quite some time now.

We built this little garden so the girls could feel a part of the whole gardening thing... and so they'd have somewhere to dig besides my lettuce patch.

Austin Film Festival was fantastic!

More soon, but in short... I made the finals for "pitch fest" for my screenplay "SUV".