AFI. What do they know?

Well, probably more than me. But I was inspired by their omni-present lists to start thinking about my own list of great films. Like everyone, I disagree with those lists but I recognize that it’s more of a marketing thing so I don’t get my knickers in a knot (I always wanted to say that!).

The biggest decision is what criteria to use to construct the list. Since it’s my list I will use my own criteria. The criteria is simple, I would consider these to be my favorite movies. And the simple test I used to determine if the film should be on the list is: if I see the movie on TV, would I watch it. Every time. If it was on the next day would I watch it again?

Here are the first 34 in no particular order:

Almost Famous
Apollo 13
Die Hard
Gladiator
High Noon
My Cousin Vinny
Once Upon a Time in the West
Speed
Star Wars
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Hunt For Red October
The Matrix
The Natural
The Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Titanic
For A Few Dollars More
Tin Cup
Bull Durham
The Fugitive
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Naked Gun
La Femme Nikita
Run Lola Run
Rocky
To Sir With Love
12 Angry Men
Aliens
Rob Roy
Conan The Barbarian
This is Spinal Tap
Airplane!
The African Queen

And number one with a bullet: Casablanca.

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I’ve taken up trying to develop a stock system. The main tool I’ve been using is AmiBroker, a technical analysis tool. It also lets you run back tests etc.

The results can be seen at StockPickr:

http://www.stockpickr.com/members/port/tuzopickr

So, far the performance has been very good — although the US markets have been doing very nicely during the same time.

Not to be a shill, but AmiBroker is a really nice product and very programmer friendly. It has it’s own scripting language, let’s you call out to code from the scripting language, has a COM interface so you’re programs can manipulate the program and has an SDK for developing c++ plugins.

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