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September 9th, 2009
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August 20th, 2009
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June 21st, 2009
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June 11th, 2009
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Fortium Salice Salentino
March 22nd, 2009
One of the best wines we have had in a long time: 2005 Fortium Salice Salentino. It is very fruity and smooth. Just wonderful! The problem is that I don’t know where I got it from and I can’t find it at my usual online wine shops. Now, I’ll have to make a round of our local wine shops to find it.
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Protected: Sunday morning
March 16th, 2009
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DRIP to Sharebuilder
March 10th, 2009
Over the years, I had started several accounts in dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) or direct stock purchase plans (DSPs). Initially, most of these plans didn’t charge any fees for buying new stock or for reinvesting dividends. Lately, one by one, a lot of them added these fees. I just hate to pay fees and commissions for reinvesting dividends as they eat into total return on investment.
I decided to move all these stocks into my Sharebuilder.com account that offers fee-free dividend reinvestment. Surprisingly, it was a pretty painless process.
- DRIP and DSP administrators quickly issued stock certificates after I made a request online.
- After receiving the certificates, I had to fill out a short form, get it notarized and mailed all of it to Sharebuilder.
- Sharebuilder’s website says that it could take about 4-6 weeks for the stocks to show up in the account online but, it went through in less than 4 days.
I still have a few DRIP accounts left over that don’t charge any fees. Once, they change their policies about fees, those accounts will get the same treatment.
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Protected: Good morning, birthday girl
March 7th, 2009
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January 27th, 2009
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Netflix Movies
January 27th, 2009
Ever since we started subscribing to Netflix in October of last year, our movie consumption has increased tremendously. Here is a list of movies we watched over the last 3 months which is 3 times longer than the list of movies we watched in the previous 12 months:
- The Love Guru: It is just horrible, even to Mike Myers fans like us. He had some good moments and stunning jokes in the movie but, overall the whole movie didn’t gel together.
- Casino Royale: A well-made action movie. It was very enjoyable. The first action sequence was just too much. I wanted them to stop the chase as I couldn’t handle the action anymore. Still, to me Craig is not a good Bond. My favorites are Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan. All others are just temporary replacements.
- Batman Begins: I can’t decide if this movie is louder, flashy, jarring and more annoying than “The Dark Knight“. Action and stunts were good in both the movies but, they really should have chosen another actor for Batman’s role. I find it absolutely amazing how someone (you know who you are) could watch both these Batman movies 3 or 4 times each.
- Sex and the City: The Movie: I’ll admit without shame that I used to regularly watch the original show on HBO when it aired back in 1990’s and early 2000’s. It was very good — on the edge– with subject matter that you couldn’t get to watch on any other show on any other channel. During the last couple of seasons when those ladies started to get married, the show started to get boring. The last season was a disaster. Sadly, this movie was a continuation of that disaster. More than once during th movie, I wanted to slap Sarah Jessica Parker till she fainted.
- Aaja Nachle: I really wanted to like this movie, as it was a big comeback for Madhuri Dixit. I would have ignored the bad plot and storyline that made no sense but, Madhuri Dixit looked very weird in the movie. She wasn’t the original Madhuri that I remembered from her pre-marital days. She looked like a strange cross between Jennifer Lopez and Madonna in a bad way. (I can think of some good ways of combining those two women!)
- An Inconvenient Truth: It is an absolutely must-see documentary for everyone on this planet. The whole topic of global warming is very convincingly presented.
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Very boring movie with no point. I fell asleep several times while watching it only to be woken up by loud sounds of gunfire.
- Chak de India: Haven’t finished watching yet. Couldn’t take more than one hour of it at a time. The background music was very annoying.
Our current usage of Netflix is more than 2 movies a month. Lets see for how long this continues. The last time we used Netflix a few years ago, last rented movie was returned, unwatched after keeping it in the house for 7 months.
Netflix also provides this view-on-demand service over the internet. It is very convenient. I have been catching up on missed episodes (actually whole seasons) of CSI.
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