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Now that is a classic cartoon… I laughed for 15 minutes. The confusing title and obscene cartoon leave you wondering where I could possibly be going with this. Well today we say “peace out dirtbag!” to one of the world’s best spammers. Yes, today a Virginia appeals court judge upheld the first ever felony conviction for spamming.

I despise spam, and fear the damage it can cause my friends as well as my computer networks everyday. This is one seriously big step in the right direction for the internet. Nine years in the clink… that just screams “spammer think twice” to me.

Ever had fresh Main lobster? I know my mother thinks it is the greatest thing in the world.

I’ve never won anything in my life, however I somehow managed to win the drawing at the company Christmas party last year for a $150 gift certificate to Del Frisco’s, which is like one of the premier steakhouses in Denver. A $150 should be plenty to cover dinner for two I would think (in fact I would say it is an absolutely absurd sum of money to spend on two meals). Unfortunately tho, I was intrigued by the lobster.

The lobster sold at Del Frisco’s is Australian lobster which, according to my overly ambitious waiter, has “a much more (some adjective that wasn’t in my vocabularly) than Maine lobster”. This is the crazy part, the lobster tail you order is 24 (yes that’s twenty four) ounces and costs a $110!! OK, when you have to figure out how to spend $150 (so you don’t have $25 left over and have to come back to such a ridiculously priced place) and you see a 24 oz, $110 lobster tail from Australia on the menu you have to order it (at least I do). So I split the lobster, which took over 30 minutes to prepare. It came out in the shell of the tail and I thought I had ordered a damn sea monster as opposed to a piece of lobster!! This thing was massive, and by massive I mean MASSIVE. I could barely finish my half.

The lobster was beyond amazing, way better tasting than almost any other seafood I have ever had (which it very well should have been). Lobster, hog rotten potatoes (as they say in Wyoming), some spinach, a bit of appetizer and two glasses of wine… with tip: gone was my $150 gift certificate as well 20 bucks of my own hard earned money. Was it worth it? Other than spectacle of 24 oz of lobster, NOPE… do people eat like that all the time? Even somewhat often? The place was full of people. Get a grip world… eat a filet mignon for a mere $40 and send the other $100 to feed some family of African refugees for a month or something.

Next time, I’m hawking my Del Frisco’s gift card on eBay and eating at Chubby’s Mexican Food next to my house something like 22 times. Haha, peace out.

Well, I have actually decided, odd as it is, to add two additional positions to my holdings noted in ”The Picks” post from early May. Warren Buffet says he only needs one good idea per year, which really is the truth. These two make position make numbers two and three to add to my portfolio this year but hey, the only thing I can think of better than one good idea investment idea per year is three good ideas per year :-).

Again, I reitierate my statement from earlier this year… I love these companies but they may turn out to totally suck in the long run. We’ll see but so far with them I have smashed market returns, my 401K returns, and my Chase IRA… stupid stockbrokers. Haha, just joking (again). Anyway… the picks part 2.

Volcom (VLCM) - Sells to growing market segment so many companies target……. young people. However, they are positioned around a hyper-growth market among young people, action sports. They make the clothes any action sports freak needs but, wait, what’s this? My favorite stock indicator of all… the company is run by a founder/CEO who owns a substantial stake in the business.

MDC Holdings (MDC) - This one is a no-brainer. Warren Buffet talks about his favorite investments are those where he can shoot fish in a barrel, with the water drained out. Well, has the water not been drained out of the real estate bucket? MDC is a Denver-based company that makes awful good real-estate moves, carries mcuh stronger (lower leverage) financials than everyone in the business, and has a good managment team. most importantly at the minute perhaps… the company is trading at LESS THAN BOOK VALUE. Wall street idiots and there three month outlooks have hammered thsi stock to the point where they have emptied all the water from the fish barrell in my humble opinion.

That’s it, the number 6 and number 7 stocks added to my identified companies on my blog. We’ll see what happens… I put my money on ‘em. Hope you do the same (as long as you don’t blame when you lose your ass later on).