Step 3: Transactions

Bought 200 Death runes for 57,600gp (288gp/rune).

Bought 2000 Rune Essence for  38,000gp (19gp/rune).

Bought 1500 Salmon for 40,500gp (27gp/fish).

Now just wait.    Yikes.  Mining has been busy that last time I checked, so fishing might be fun.  Just kidding, all of the fish have taken a big hit.  Not a good sign for the fishing industry.  I guess I'll be in the mines, working.

An interesting idea that might be quite profitable is looking to trade with people in the mines of giving out notes for ores, or above or at the current market price in the mines.  Could be profitable for a bullish item.

See ya in the mines.

Step 2: Testing the waters

Now what should I sell, what should I keep, and what should I buy more off?  To determine that, I'm going to use the graphs and the numbers coming from the runescape website under the Grand Exchange.  Its pretty simple, easy to use, and well, it has everything I need.

Gold Ore: BUY
Mithril ore: BUY
Coal: Possible SELL
Tin ore: WATCH, over a 180 day deep decline
Fire rune: WATCH, BUY at 2gp, sell at 4gp or more
Mind rune: Level, No go.
Water rune:  Rebounding, HOLD - BUY
Earth rune: BUY
Death rune: Dynamic - BUY
Cosmic rune: Dynamic - SELL
Body rune: Level, No go.
Rune Ess: BUY
Law rune: BUY
Nature rune: Taking a dive, WATCH
Air rune: Not an active mover, WATCH
Chaos rune: Last 180 day average has a normal distribution, Currently low and active.  BUY
Salmon: Had a huge peak in beginning of May, and now returned to normal.  This might be interesting to buy now to see if it can reach that peak price again.  BUY
Bait: It did reach a peak back in May also, but it is quite stable as of now.  WATCH - BUY
Gold Bars: Currently on the up of a steep peak.  SELL
Steel bars: BUY
Iron: has taken a steady decline for at least 180 days.  BUY
Emerald: Probably at rock bottom.  BUY
Sapphire: Leveling out after a decline.  BUY
Ruby: Bottom of decline.  BUY
Rune Scimmy: A no go.  Totally leveled off to nearly half of what it once was.  


Whew, glad thats over.  Now, lets do some transactions!

Start of Runescape Grand Exchange Watch list

To Start my grand exchange investing plan, I am using the following supplies already acquired for my path to riches:
136,733 gp
Gold ore: 17
Mithril ore: 30
Coal:139
Tin ore: 28
Fire rune: 1936
Mine rune: 992
Water rune: 145
Earth rune: 157
Death rune: 8
Cosmic rune: 2
Body rune: 87
Rune Ess: 2625
Law rune: 94
Nature rune: 126
Air rune: 241
Chaos rune: 3
Salmon: 54
Bait: 972
Gold Bars: 58
Steel bars: 13
Iron: 1
Emerald: 1
Sapphire: 6
Ruby: 1
Rune Scimmy: 2

The Reintroduction of the Eastern Cougar

As someone who has seen the forests throughout the country, I am quite interested in the big mammals.  It is always exciting to see deer grazing just off the trial.  


But for the east coast, this might be a problem now.


According to Federal researchers, one of the deer's greatest predators on the east coast has been officially extinct. The lack of the eastern cougar might be the reason why the east coast forests have been deteriorating.  The deer have lost there balance having no predators, allowing them to over graze.  


They is an idea of reintroducing them back into the ecosystem.  Of course, this would worry some people, but would definitely make a significant impact to the situation.  

Percent Error Review

For those that only write lab reports once a term or so, the percent error formula is usually a calculation worth inserting into your dicussion. 

This type of calculation compares the value you got from the experiement and the published value. 

Percent Error = |calculated - published| / published x 100

This assumes that your calculated value and the published value is in the same units.  If not, they should be converted to the same units.

Refresh and review complete.

China's Smoking

Smokin' away!

It seems that America is under a new Red Scare.  This time, it's about China.

Politicians from Obama to Bohner feel that China is getting ahead of America.  Just from last week's State of the Union address Obama incited this motivation that we need to do big things.

Now to calm those pessimists, China has a smoking problem.  Economist and health experts predict that an estimated of 2 million people will die each year from tobacco-related problems in China.  By 2030, that could rise to 3.5 million per year.

According to the article, there are more than 300 million smokers in China.  That's a lot of wasted productivity.  If each smoker wastes about an hour smoking each day, that would be over 101 billion man-hours lost of productivity each year.

Sorry China, but that's a lot of wasted time.

Literay helpful pointers

Through my education so far, almost every Teacer I have had has always had the difficulty to clarify theses common mess-ups, even the ones we were taught in second grade. Maybe fifth graders are smarter than us.

It's and Its
It's is a contraption of it and is.
It's the right answer after all.

Its is a used to show possession.
The computer had its power cord unplugged.

Affect and effect
Affect is used as a verb to mean to touch or move.
The bird population affects the worm population.

Effect is tied more closely to results.
The effects from the hurricane Katrina can still be seen today.

Principal and principle
Principal is used when the describing the chief or first.
The principal president of the United States was Washington.

Principle is a fundamental element such as a law.
The principle of not stealing is quite widespread through the world.

They're, there and their
They're is a contraption of they and are.
They're over by the water fountain.

There is used as clarifying the subject.
Over there is the radio.

Their is to show possession.
Their radio is on the shelf.

Hope this can clarify those common grammar mistakes.  If I had these nailed down throughout high school, I could be going to Vandy.  Well, it would make me closer to getting in.  

Filling up a Tool Kit

What you need to have to create a tool kit.

• Screw drivers
• Solid with a long shaft



Now just imagine tools

• Mini Screwdriver set
• Electric drill
• Drill bits
• Hammer
• There is no need to get an expensive one, you will only use it once and a while.
• Random screws, nails, and bolts
• Just get a plastic container, like a peanut butter jar, and store those random screws, nails and bolts form other projects.
• Pliers
• You can get sets that contain everything you need, like nippers, needle nose, and multipurpose ones.
• Wrenches
• I recommend that you get a multipurpose racketing one for sure.  It really speeds up the jobs.  
• Duct tape
• This is for the quick and easy repair of those things that you will probably replace soon.  
• Measuring tape
• No need to splurge, you will probably break it or lose it.  
• Electrical equipment - optional equipment if you have the balls and the experience to deal with electricity.
• Wire cutters
• Outlet tester or multimeter
• Electrical tape
• Case
• This can be as showy, or traditional you want.  
• It should be able to contain all of your tools along with some capability of organization.
• Mine is in a metal briefcase that looks like its from a movie.

Having a tool kit comes in handy from college tinkering, to house fixing.  

Pirates and the Carribean

There was this rescue and take over mission by the SEAL special forces of South Korea aboard a ship that was hijacked by pirates.

It seems like someone has been playing to much Call of Duty Black Ops, but still, gutsy move.

The decision to give the signal for this type of mission must have been hard to do.  It put the lives of the crew in harms way along with the soldiers.

It was the better decision to make at the end of the day.  Besides killing most of the pirates, capturing five of them and only having to deal with a non-lethal shot in the stomach of the ship's skipper, that's a success.

This type of action sends to the pirates that this is not a pleasurable way of life as for negotiating is becoming more scarce.

Also, a new Pirates of the Caribbean (On Stranger Tides) in coming out this year!

Easy Chair?

What is an Easy Chair?

I have never heard of an Easy chair, so I did some research.  Here's what I came up with:

• An ehow article that explains how to buy an Easy Chair
• Lyrics from a Bob Dylan song
• A wikipedia article about EasyChair, a conference management system
• easychairworkstation.com, a website selling products for some really lazy or just disabled people

Those workstation products look like they are made to be in hospitals and in futuristic government labs.  

After searching, I have come to a conclusion.

Easy Chair - a place made for lazy people.

P.S. The cup holder is an add-on for $57.  

Really Yahoo?

"A used iPad in perfect condition can bring up to $354 at one recycling site."

Like really Yahoo?  

Proof!  

A used...iPad...in perfect condition... which means that it works from my interpretation and you are thinking about NOT selling it.  

I'll pay $360 for one too.  Actually, I'll buy like no ones business.  

I don't know if there would be such a person that is thinking of recycling a perfectly fine iPad.  You could put it up on ebay.  There's one up that is used, and in "great condition."  Its up to $500 with 34 bids.  That's almost the going price for it.

Maybe for you selling stuff on ebay.com might be something you wouldn't want to do.  If you don't want to deal with the scammers, the idiots, or the ridiculous, you could also try to sell it to one of your friends.  You could send out an email saying you got your hands on an iPad and you would like to sell it.  I'm sure one of them would give you an offer or two.  

At the end of the day, you probably should just stick with it.  There are thousands of Apps ranging from newspapers, radio stations, games, calculators, point of sale programs and file readers.  There are also plenty of accessories that could maximize the usefulness of this device such as card readers, keyboards, and stylists.  

The iPad is a very versatile device.  At this point, it is still a hot item to have and use.  Pretty sure, you don't want to sell it or recycle it now.  

 

Off the grid...

From a financial standpoint, I could not survive any longer paying for 3G service for my Mytouch from T-mobile.  It was a great phone, one that I even reviewed.   I was paying, through my parents, around $30 a month for unlimited data and texting.

Not just that, but I had put in a couple hundred bucks back in September to get an iPad that I sincerely hold close to my heart.  I was in constant Wifi access when I was either at home, in my dorm, or at class.  I didn't need to have 3G anymore.

So, I confronted my father to make the drive to the T-mobile store and pick up a 'dump' phone.  At the end of the day, I ended with the a very slick-looking Samsung Gravity 3 (see right).

This is my first phone to have a full keyboard, so I'm a little excited for this next chapter in my life.

Now, got to do some Particle Mechanics and Material Science homework for tomorrow.  There's that massive Nor'easter coming up the coast, and apparently, 7 to 12 inches of snow is supposed to fall in the Capital Region.  Can't wait to see my 8am canceled.

Drunken History Vol. 1

This was referred to me from my friend.

"Can you see my belly?"

New App store for the iMac

Today was the day for the launch of the app store for iMac.

It is currently only available for those with the current OS of Snow leopard.

The store is similar to just like the iPad's but somewhat better organized throughout through tabs, a better search bar, and if the review is helpful or not.

I'm excited to see how much this will change the flow of apps for this platform almost forgotten by most.

Back to School

Back to school with less than I have ever brought. Imagine that.

For the first time ever, I had to worry about my credit limit when I was buying my books. Those engineering textbooks are worth their weight in gold.

Moved into a frat house. Drinking has already commenced.