Re: Real Time Quotes, etc
Free Real-Time Quotes:
pan.digitrade.com
you have to register, print out a form, sign it, fax/mail it in. And you must allow their cookies. Sometimes they are slow. I use this or real-time quotes from Waterhouse. I don't have Level II.
<<Off Topic--and I mean way, way, off>>
When I am driving up to my mountain cabin from the city, 1/2 hour or so before I get there I go through a little town which has a nice little pizzeria. After trying and liking their pizza, I kept their phone number and the next time I was driving up I called ahead to order a pizza to take along to the cabin. There was a lot of noise in the kitchen; the woman taking my order on the phone had trouble hearing me and had to repeatedly ask my name. "Diana," I said, "like in 'Diana, the Goddess of the Hunt.'" When I arrived at the pizzeria, there were six or eight pizza boxes on top of the ovens waiting to be picked up. Each had had a name written on it's edge with a felt-tip marker---"Gary G.", "R. Green", "Alice J", etc.---and among them mine, marked "Diana, Goddess of the Hunt". (Not abbreviated, mind you) The counterman came over. I said "You have a pizza for Diana?" He said "Would that be the Goddess of the Hunt?" I said "Yes." (all this with straight faces). Every time since then when I call and they ask my name, as soon as I say "Diana", they ask "Goddess of the Hunt?" and it's on my pizza box every time.
I wonder if other Dianas are asked when they call, and what they think. I can imagine another Diana sarcastically answering "No, Diana the Princess of Wales" and thereafter being, pizzawise, 'Diana, Princess of Wales.' I always look at the boxes on the oven when I go in, but so far it's always been just regular names on them--"Jimmy K", "Olsen", etc. except for mine. (I guess you would hesitate to get too carried away with this if you had to write the names on the boxes.) |
