Nachos a la Sidewalker

by Luke Sidewalker on February 7, 2010

The weather and  not finding too many coins have combined to make posting on the blog rather challenging over the past couple of weeks. So with today’s big sporting event, Superbowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans, I thought I’d take this opportunity to take you down into the kitchens at Castle Sidewalker. I’m not much of a cook, and I never really make anything from scratch, but I do consider myself a good ‘combiner’. I’m going to share with you my favorite game time snake.

This is what you will need,  real cooks call it ingredients I believe:

Directions:

Get a baking tray and line it with some aluminum foil. Then lay out the scoops. Take the salsa and add a teaspoonful to each scoop. Now cover each scoop with a pinch of the shredded cheese. This should take less than 5 minutes. Then place the baking tray under the broiler for 2-5 minutes depending on how done you want the cheese. Take out from the broiler and place on a serving dish  with a some sour cream on the side.

And voila, you have just made Nachos a la Sidewalker! All in under 10 minutes. This is great snack not just for Superbowl Sunday, but for anytime you need to come up with something quick. Enjoy the game…

-Luke Sidewalker

-Current balance $26.65

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Month End Report January ‘10

by Luke Sidewalker on January 31, 2010


Days since inception: 761
Cash balance: $26.39 (all time)
Cents per day: 3.4678(since inception)
Predicted day for $1,000,000: Thursday 10th April 80,960 AD

1/31/2010
$1,000,000
= 924.38 oz of Gold @ $1081.80 (as per Nymex close near month)
= 13,766.52 barrels of oil @ $72.64 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month)
= 61,747.45 oz of Silver @ $16.195 (as per Nymex close near month)

This month’s paltry additions to the Sidewalker Fund has seen the quest completion date pushed back another 2,000 years! Not even the double nickel find on Friday could lift the spirits around Castle Sidewalker.

In other news the Chief Bubble Blower, non other than Bumblin’ Ben Bernanke got confirmed by Congress to continue for another 4  years of monetary policy experiments at our expense. The markets dipped in the second half of the month leaving January with a negative return. I’m no doom-monger, I like to live life with my cup half full, but I see storm clouds gathering on the financial horizon, be wary and prepared.

-Luke Sidewalker
-Current balance $26.39

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The Winds of Change

January 25, 2010

We woke up this morning to some howling winds which are rocking Castle Sidewalker to the foundations. Our garbage bins have been relocated to the next county overnight, and the fence that guards the perimeter of the Castle grounds is bending at an alarming angle as I type. The only good news is that the [...]

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Shopping with Sidewalker #6

January 15, 2010

It’s the 15th of the month which means it is time to try to add a modicum of respectability to this financial powerhouse of a blog, as opposed to the inane drivel that is splattered across these pages the rest of the month. Yes that’s right, I’ve been shopping again/collecting data!
In a shocking turn of [...]

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A Remote Case of Anxiety

January 12, 2010

It’s bee an anxious few days at Castle Sidewalker. We don’t have many luxuries here but I would count the TV remote control as one of them. It even has it’s own name ‘Frank’, after Frank Zappa (tenuous I know, but it’s what I have grown up with!). Anyway, sometime during the Jets win over [...]

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A Tale of Two Pennies (1982)

January 11, 2010

Following on from my previous post about  the nickel and pre-1982 penny being the most valuable coins when judged by the metal content metric I received the following email from my ‘Loyal Correspondent‘.
Dear Lord Sidewalker,
In your post dated January 6th 2010 you stated that the pre-1982 penny was worth 2.2 cents due to it’s make up [...]

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Five Nickels or a Quarter?

January 6, 2010

For arguments sake let’s say you walk into a store and buy a widget for 75 cents. You dutifully hand over a dollar bill to the store owner, he then apologizes because he has no quarters or dimes and has to make change using five nickels instead. You huff and puff but except the five [...]

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Month End Report December ‘09

January 3, 2010

Days since inception: 730
Cash balance: $25.78 (all time)
Cents per day: 3.5315(since inception)
Predicted day for $1,000,000: Sunday 29th February 79,536 AD
12/31/2009
$1,000,000
= 913.07 oz of Gold @ $1095.20 (as per Nymex close near month)
= 12,600.80 barrels of oil @ $79.36 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month)
= 54,445.96 oz of Silver @ $16.822 (as per [...]

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10 Predictions for 2010

December 31, 2009

No self-respecting blogger can let New Years Eve go by without a list of predictions for the coming year. So I hope you are sitting comfortably and enjoy reading my ‘visionary’ list.

Eldorado, the lost city of Gold, is finally located and it’s location rather surprisingly is right next door to Castle Sidewalker. However the discovery [...]

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Who am I…Who are You?

December 29, 2009

We all know what a closely guarded secret my identity is, so following on from my previous post, and to appease the budding economist in Trondheim, Norway; I’m going to try to analyze who you are and how you got here! As in, what is the profile of the average reader of Luke Sidewalker (now [...]

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