Portfolio of the Week

[skiracer]

Ski I don’t really follow this Port of the week thing. I just noticed you needed some info that I had. If I’m around I’ll offer to give the intraday sale prices. I’m not interested in the contest as to me it is meaningless. I also think it could develop bad habits in taking risks that one should not. I know some actually buy the stocks they use for the game. After it is all said and done what matters is our performance over time. Here is my pic of the week..LoL

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpo...&postcount=194

And that is a beautiful pic of the week.

[Runner]

And that is a beautiful pic of the week.

Thanks Ski, just playing with my camera. I shot a bunch today in a nice park.

[Websman]

The POTW has been good, but I get a lot more out the list of everyones real positions on Ski's thread.

[Lyehopper]

Hopefully, Rob and his buddies will not take what I have to say in the wrong way...But I think that I am entitled to my own opinion...Just like the rest of you...

I thought we were all "buddies" here. It's time to move on fellas. Now would everyone PLEASE just shut the $%#& up about this..... and let's get this thing back to freakin' normal.

Now Ski, your asumption that nobody would pick up the scorekeeping duties are just wrong. I stated that I couldn't do it..... but if no one had stepped up I would have indeed done so and I even offered to help you if you needed it.... and if I had not stepped up.... and you had not.... someone would have. Before I came here and before Rob came here, there was always someone here willing to keep score, the POTW is bigger than all of us.

Rob has held no one hostage here, he just wants to make a point. With all due respect, I've seen you make "a point" here a time or two in the past as well.... As far as I'm concerned Ski, you are the current scorekeeper and will continue to keep the scorecard until you decide otherwise. I'm just happy that there's so much passion for this game here....

[jiesen]

Friends, friends... can't we all just get along? C'mon - group hug! Or if not, let's just agree to disagree and move on. We're all much better than this. So on to business:

AMLN long

[IIC]

Doug, there are so many red herrings, straw men and inconsistencies in your argument I lost count—not to mention outright misrepresentation of fact. Weak. Weak. You disappoint me, my friend.

You wanna get into a pissing match that you will never win?...Forget it...I've said my piece...If I continue w/ it I'll look like an asshole or a whiner like you are being...Take back your POTW...Count me out...I'll spend time on the threads I find of interest...Doug

[diogenes]

You wanna get into a pissing match that you will never win?...Forget it...I've said my piece...If I continue w/ it I'll look like an asshole or a whiner like you are being...Take back your POTW...Count me out...I'll spend time on the threads I find of interest...Doug

Sorry Doug you have been assimilated.

[billyjoe]

Skiracer's Stock Slopes , Rob's Lobs , and Portfolio of the Week are 3 of my favorite threads . Can't we keep them all going strong? Actually there's only a couple threads I don't like, but I read them all anyway even if I don't understand much of what is said.

------------billyjoe

[skiracer]

I thought we were all "buddies" here. It's time to move on fellas. Now would everyone PLEASE just shut the $%#& up about this..... and let's get this thing back to freakin' normal.

Now Ski, your asumption that nobody would pick up the scorekeeping duties are just wrong. I stated that I couldn't do it..... but if no one had stepped up I would have indeed done so and I even offered to help you if you needed it.... and if I had not stepped up.... and you had not.... someone would have. Before I came here and before Rob came here, there was always someone here willing to keep score, the POTW is bigger than all of us.

Rob has held no one hostage here, he just wants to make a point. With all due respect, I've seen you make "a point" here a time or two in the past as well.... As far as I'm concerned Ski, you are the current scorekeeper and will continue to keep the scorecard until you decide otherwise. I'm just happy that there's so much passion for this game here....

I would be ok with Rob taking over if he wants it. I've had enough. I couldn't see using his spreadsheet after all of this. Let him do it.

[riverbabe]

Ski, yes, and my response to THAT post was ...
Hey, forgive me if I don't like wading in a verbal cesspool, even if it is only ankle deep. But since some here seem like it that way, or at least not object to it, I'm sure that it will get deeper and deeper as time goes on.

Rob, forgive me please, I don't know you. But, my impression is that you are having a hissy fit and over-reacting over something rather trivial. You are now jealous that Ski has taken over the spot that you relinquished? I personally think that he was very considerate to all on this board to step up to the plate when you unceremoniously dumped everbody with no warning.

If all the protagonists here could pull back on the testosterone levels, maybe you all could start behaving like intelligent, caring and reasonable adults. river

[JohnHenry]

Stld

Congrats to Mary, Iceman, and the Skier….sorry for being late with the congrats. I’ve been very stupid crazy busy with school work.

I’ll take STLD long….thanks for keeping score Ski.

[RL]

Ski please put me In CBT-LONG thanks have a good day

[Rob]

I would like to say a few things for the record. While I did did leave off from scorekeeping in the POTW rather abruptly, it was not "without warning." All anyone needs to do, if he or she wants to see the truth of the matter, is look at my posts in this thread and in the thread I started called "A Humble Request," and put together a little timeline, paying attention to not only what I said but also the posts I was responding to. That may be more work than anyone might care to do, and I understand that. But doing so would disprove the notion that I stopped keeping score "without warning."

Why did I do it? Because I saw something good deteriorating, and I wanted to prevent that from happening. Nothing more, nothing less. Is that a crime? As some have correctly observed, this is not my Web site, and I am not even the moderator. This is obviously true; therefore I do not have any tangible means to enforce rules of propriety. If I had those means I would use them, but I don't. Yet I still saw a trend heading in the wrong direction, and if this trend were to continue, it would ruin something that I value, something I have grown to love and appreciate. So I did the only thing I could do in my circumstance. I made the decision to try to use what little influence I had at my disposal to take a stand for what is right and good. What some have flippantly and incorrectly referred to as "censorship," a poilitcally-charged buzz word, is really nothing more than an appeal to common decency. I don't think many realize how demanding it can be keeping the score here week in and week out over a long period of time. And I had done it for something like nine months running. And over that period of time I thought I had found some "friends" here. I thought maybe if I mustered up the courage to take a stand for a worthy and good thing, that perhaps my "friends" might back me up on it. And indeed at first it seemed like that might even be the way it was going, even if just a little.

When Skiracer stepped up and took the bull by the horns, I praised him for it in private messages to him and to Lyehopper. I admired his courage. At the same time I believed he was going to find it probably more challenging than he realized, especially since his areas of expertise do not include working with Excel spreadsheets, as he said himself. I saw him struggling with it and wanted to help him, since that what "friends" do when they see a "friend" who needs help. So I threw together an Excel spreadsheet on docs.google.com and gave him colaborative access to it. I encouraged him to look at how the formulas are built, to read the Excel help screens on the worksheet functions being used. In fact I encouraged him to copy those formulas into his own Excel spreadsheet and modify them to suit his own needs. He had several questions he posted to me in private messages, and I carefully tried to thoroughly answer his questions. I probably spent as much or more of time doing that than I would have had I continued keeping the score myself. So I hadn't really abandoned the contest at all, as all this was going on "behind the scenes." Concurrently with this I was also exchanging a few lengthy private messages with certain other forum members, including Tatnic, about the matter of using respectable language on this forum, which is public after all.

After two weeks I could see that Skiracer was beginning to get a real understanding of just how demanding this scorekeeping job can be. (Try it for nine months, Skiracer. Try it for nine months, anyone! I dare you. And after you have done so, don't you dare make the mistake of expecting you have any right whatsoever to make any simple requests.) So when Ski openly suggested I take the job back, the job that IIC referred to as "thankless"—one of the few things he's said recently that I can agree with—and since it did seem that perhaps the profanity thing was sort of ebbing, I thought perhaps this would be the right time to go with it and responded in the affirmative. Boy, what an eye-opening experience that was! Suddenly a couple of people whom I had begun to view as "friends" turned on me with spite and vitriol that I would never have imagined, putting me completely on the defensive. So I spoke up in my defense, only to be accused of "whining" and "wanting to get into a pissing match," when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

I have done absolutely nothing to warrant the kind of shabby treatment I have received here. And I think you who have done this thing know in your hearts that I'm speaking the truth, whether or not you have the courage to admit it.

[mimo_100]

TBSI, long , please Ski.

TBSI, long , please Ski.

I am a volunteer on quite a few boards of trustees (High School Financial Advisory Board, by invitation only; also elected to my homeowners association board, to name two). In very short order you develop a thick skin. People have their own agenda's. Everyone is different. Those who have respect for the human dignity of the person next to them, and stick by that purpose, can weather any onslaught of negativism. Rob is a good person and I congratulate him.

[riverbabe]

TGT long

Hello,
If nobody has taken it yet, please put me in TGT long (Tarjay, where my kids spend all their money). Thanks, river