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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The primary purchase when I moved to dividend stocks was GM. I think I put in something like $5k. The stock has been neutral for me but I've received three dividend payments from it, I think.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I considered a similar move, though I've been in T-Mobile for 3-ish years so I figure I have my telecom bases covered with them. No dividend but they continue to grow at a much greater rate than other carriers, which has led to a 70% gain in the three years since I bought into the stock.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    To absorb a bit of risk in my tech stocks - Amazon, Google, Netflix, Square, Facebook, Tesla, etc. - I've been putting more money into dividend stocks over the past year. I'm to the point now where I receive ~$1000/yr in dividends. Maybe more, I haven't really added them together in awhile.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Took a small risk and dropped $1200 more into Polaris. Their stock dropped roughly 20% over the past month due to a recall, which forced a pretty severe adjustment to their upcoming quarterly report, and stagnating sales in the ATV segment, their primary profit center. But they pay a solid dividend, a 3% yearly yield, and their motorcycle division continues to impress. Overall, I think they'll be back to that $90-ish mark within a year or two.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I watched the first episode of Fleabag last night (British show, available on Amazon) and it was quite good. A bit like You're the Worst but not quite as charming, though it's hard to see where it's going with just one episode. I also watched the pilot of The Tick. It's acceptable, though mainly it made me really miss Warburton and his criminally short run in the role.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    We know for sure they scanned the media guide.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe this is the case but teams are generally open to allowing their candidates to interview and accept higher level positions when offered. Doing otherwise would be very off-putting to the best and brightest candidates. If the smartest person you hire doesn't believe they will have a fair chance to move upward when the opportunity arises, they'll probably accept a position with another team that allows them to do so.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I thought about the search firm thing. It's entirely possible the search firm is outlining a basic list of talking points and one of them is raising a red flag with candidates... For example, "Paul Molitor is our manager in 2017". I doubt that would even be that off-putting - after all, a POBO position is a long-term deal and Molitor is under contract for just one more season - but it's just an example. There could be any number of things that dissuades a candidate from even hearing out the other side.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    First paragraph: it seems they may have screwed up with Cherington and that's disturbing. They had plenty of time to contact him and get him into the interview process and if it's true that he declined because he was already in the process of negotiating with Toronto, that's the kind of easily preventable mistake that shouldn't be happening in September of 2016. Second paragraph: huge (and I mean huge) red flags should go up around Twins Territory if McLeod interviews and declines the position. That means ownership is probably broken and non-baseball people are making unreasonable baseball demands upon the future head of their baseball operations.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, the Twins are a bit more of a known commodity but unless those guys know something really damning about Twins ownership, don't you think they'd at least take an interview if they were interested in a POBO position right now? All it requires is one day of their time and zero dollars spent on their part, after which they'd walk away fully comfortable in whatever decision they decide to make. It seems really weird to refuse meeting with someone for a highly sought after position if you're interested in filling that role with one of just 30 teams in the league. The risk is virtually zero to sit down and hear out the other party.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I view this as a positive, relatively speaking. If you decline an interview, it's likely you have personal reasons to decline even considering the position. You haven't met with ownership, you don't have a real idea of the inner workings of the company, and you're declining to even learn and consider if the position is right for you. There's something outside the company that is preventing you from meeting with them at all. The reasons for this happening are as long as my arm: family, current positional happiness, general quality of life, etc. If you decline after an interview, that generally means there's something about the company that's wrong and you want no part of it. Who here hasn't taken an interview mostly out of curiosity, only to walk away and say "nopenopenope"? I've done it several times.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, I agree with everything in this post. We can speculate all day and choose whichever narrative best fits our viewpoint but at the end of the day, there are so many variables and so little public information available that we don't have the slightest idea what we're talking about.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I buy the latest and greatest iPhone but it's because it allows me to keep my phone for a minimum of three years without getting frustrated that it's too slow for my needs by the end of the lifecycle. But I generally agree. I don't understand why people spend that much, especially people who buy into programs like the "12 month trade-in" system that has swept through carriers over the past couple of years. Actually, I do understand it. People like to show off shiny new toys but can't afford to buy into the steep price every 12 months to own said device. It's like a car lease on a much smaller scale. It's dumb, wasteful, and unnecessarily expensive.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a good phone getting loads of good reviews. Too much is being made of the headphone jack thing and it's easy to get sucked into the noise of internet bleating over inconsequential details. Simply put, most people don't give a ****. Technology changes, new features added, old ones dropped. In six months, few will remember the headphone jack debacle. In a year, no one will care. In two years, over half the phones shipped will come without a headphone jack, including Android. And the world will keep spinning. As for overall sales of the iPhone 7, I think we've seen analysts drastically underestimate the cyclical nature of phone upgrades. Two year contracts/payments have created a tick-tock upgrade and it appears the 7 is going to be the recipient of tons of sales due to this cycle.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, but sticking within an hour flight (and hell, even driving distance) of your kids for large chunks of the year could have played a role in the decision. But really, it's all speculation. I'm mildly concerned that "people" have reportedly declined interviews but I need a few more actual names before I consider it a real problem. I really hope this is just a lot of noise surrounding two legitimate candidates who liked their current (or coming) deals and not an ownership meddling problem.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    New phone, higher than anticipated sales, special carrier trade-in deals. Several things, really. At least that's all I've heard about it thus far.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, moving in high school is rough. I moved after my freshman year, lost all my friends, had to start anew, and was derailed off an AP track (ie. college credits in high school) through laziness/inattentiveness from my CA high school counselor (who was a moron). I was 15 and had no idea the long-term effects that would have on college. In short, moving your high school kids halfway across the country can and should have a big impact on parents' job choices. (not that I resent any of that happening, but it did happen and should be acknowledged)
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Holy crap, I just looked at Yelp stock. At one point it had dropped to $15. I wish I had known that when it was $15. I'm not a big fan of Yelp in general but at $15, that was a steal. They have a secure market thanks to iOS and that stock was going to rebound at some point. It now sits at $37.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, Apple is back on the offensive. Roughly a 9% gain in the past 3-4 days. We'll see if it lasts, though I suspect it will for awhile. Bought about $700 more Disney stock when it dropped to $92. It jumped back to $93-94 and then dropped back down to $91.50 today. Sigh. A lot of fluctuation in the market over the past week, at least for my stocks.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm wondering that as well. If Cherington was already in negotiations with Toronto, he may have declined the interview out of courtesy to the Blue Jays. There are several ways this could have gone and it's disappointing to see a guy like that go off the board when it may have been avoidable.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah we do. I watch far fewer movies than I have at any time in the past.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I watch a fair amount of television but mostly I keep my viewing to short seasons that I can watch in a week or so. It's why I seem to watch so many different shows but my actual time spent "watching" television is moderate. (not including the mindless TV I have playing in the background while working/drawing but that barely qualifies as "watching") There are maybe (2?) long-season shows I watch (20+ episodes per season). Most of the stuff I watch is 13 episodes or fewer (Marvel Netflix, You're the Worst, HBO stuff, etc). By the way, You're the Worst is so fuggin' good.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    There's a display bug in the top ad that I'll get around to investigating soon. It'll open a 250px height container when it only needs 90px.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I skipped Vinyl entirely. Given that it was cancelled, so did everyone else.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Luke Cage and Westworld top my list. And if you're not watching The Get Down right now, you're missing out.
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