My new page
Here at Misplaced Pages, I like to keep things interesting. So every once and a while, I'll rennovate my userpage. Well today is a day that you are looking at my new userpage. My previous designs included:
I was, at one time, a n00b at Misplaced Pages, so my first couple of page designs couldn't hold up to some of the elite pages here, but I found my ground. Hmm, let's see. Well one accomplishment is that I got some of my Misplaced Pages worl published in a real newspaper! My tedious work on the List of best selling video games finally payed off on January 10th, where my information was referenced in the online journal The Independent. See the article here.
To-do
Financial
I think I'm the world's only thirteen year old stockholder, something to pride myself on. As a gift for by sucessful Bar Mitzvah, my grandparents agreed to let me buy 25 shares in any company I want. I invested those 25 shares into Apple Inc (AAPL) at the price of $70.03. In mid-February I dug deep into my savings and bought 10 more shares of Apple at the price of $83. And as of May 8, 2007, AAPL closed trading at $105.06, leaving me with a gain of $35 per share ($875 total) on my first investment, a gain of about 50%, and as for my second investment, I made $22 per share ($220 total), a gain of about 27%. Not to sound braggy, but I ended up making $1095 on two investments totalling up to $2580, leaving my portfolio with a value of $3675, a gain of 70% total. Not to shabby for someone isn't even 14, eh?
Going Green
I know it's not normal for a teenager to get involved with topics of a political nature, but after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, I decided I need to live a green lifestyle. I would classify myself as a Liberal Democrat after agreeing with nearly everything coming out of Al Gore's mouth. I strongly advocate Barack Obama's presidential bid, and, as all sane Americans are, Anti-Bush. My political stances are as follows:
Lists
Not that you'd be interested in any of these, but yet they are still here.
Bands
Flix
Search
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Quotes
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About
Born in '93, joined in June of '06 · Bar Mitzvah'd in Sept. '06 · Major trivia include: Jewish · Democratic · Lefty · Favorite movie: Tie between Borat and An Inconvenient Truth · Band: Rage Against the Machine · Song: Wake Up · Book: The Catcher in the Rye · Show: The Office. Need anymore, Sherlock Holmes?
Userboxes
| 31Y | This Wikipedian was born on 20 July 1993 and is 31 years, 5 months, and 20 days old. |
| Nirvana | This user smells like teen spirit. |
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| ✡ | This user is interested in Judaism. |
| God | This user is interested in theism. |
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This user is a stockholder and invested in AAPL.
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| 雞 | This user was born in the year of the Rooster. |  |
 | This user finds that comedy is the best way to communicate. |
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the Land of Lincoln. |
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Picture of the day
Michael William Balfe
Photograph credit: Nadar; restored by Adam Cuerden
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Awards
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BrowniesMmmm, scrumshus brownies from Heidi & Joe!
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The Tireless ContributorFor tirelessly contributing to Green Day, and never giving up, I reward you with this.
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Michael William Balfe
Photograph credit: Nadar; restored by Adam Cuerden
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