Bob Cramer's Blog

Saturday morning before 7am has got be one of the quietest times of the week.   Curious to find out who won the rain-delayed Braves-Phillies game, I am up at the crack of dawn, armed with papers and coffee, ready to get into the blogging game.  Put me in coach…

All my early morning positive vibes are thwarted, however, reading of the tragic death at Texas Rangers stadium.  My heart goes out to all involved.  That is such a painful story on all levels it leaves me speechless and depressed.

I was going to shed some lame little insights into the stock market and the news and the like, and I guess I will push ahead, begrudgingly ( but I struggle this morning). But here goes: my favorite image from all the space shuttle pictures is the one of the shuttle being carried on the back of a 747.  Who thought of that crazy idea?  I can hear the conversation now: “hey, boss, why don’t we fly the space shuttle back to Cape Canaveral on the back of a jumbo jet?”  Sure, pal.  Security!!!

Speaking of favorites, my favorite car company is Hyundai.   I have two of them.  I was way in front of that emerging trend.  Honestly, many people think my Genesis is a Bentley and I play right along.  I should be featured in a Hyundai ad and get into car sales if this social media thing just turns into a fad.

Here is a little underreported fact: Taylor Swift has Bronchitis.  Don’t ask me how I know these things, but I just do. 

I keep wanting to buy “cloud ” related stocks.  I have known about the “Cloud” and “Saas” and “CRM” and “OnDemand” for what seems like forever, and all I do is sit and watch the stocks go higher and higher.   It drives me  crazy.  Now I’ll jump right in with Salesforce over $150 and NetSuite over $40 and Netflix over $300.  It never seems like a good time to buy. 

On the subject of goodbyes, my wife wants to move her cell service to Verizon from T-Mobile (note: was with one of my New Jersey nephews last weekend and he said he had never actually met anyone who had T-Mobile as a carrier) and  get an iPhone.  I keep telling her to wait for the new iPhone 5 (I mentioned that was my plan in an earlier blog this week).  She says she needs to move now over the summer so she can get ahead on the learning curve before teaching starts again next month (In Georgia, school start in mid-August so our summer is more than 50% baked).  Should she hold out for the new iPhone or get an old one today?  I want to “crowdsource” an answer so please my loyal reader(s), give me your thoughts.

OK, I am way over my self-imposed five minute blogging limit so I am going to have to shut it down for now and get a life.  I’ve kind of enjoyed this last paragraph shout out thing I started this week and had a perfect person in mind, but now cannot remember who it is.  Age is getting to me.  I will reserve it for a double big shout out sometime in the future.  Now get out there and enjoy your weekend.