SillyCentrist

Apple is an evil company IMHO.

I've been reading Agatha Christie where 'SA' is assumed to be 'sex appeal' but that was too risqué to use.

So goes the Testosterone Trade.

Yup, the balloons are primary colors and interesting. I am dreading the remaining sea of Bluesky.

We are doing hot air balloons.

No north-south trains within a thousand miles of Colorado. Just sayin'.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

Stellar article. The craft and creation by programmers, like many skilled jobs, have transitioned to production with no awareness of elegance and nuance.

Tuning a carburator once was magic, but the twiddly bits are tucked away under the hood or absent altogether with EVs now. They just work.

What's old is new: I read that youths are attracted to the '401-K mullet', a more conservative take on the old mullet. In the Seventies this Fifties throwback was called a DA or duck ass.

Ha ha ha. Sure, buy a paltry $10M sum of a speculative mineral at the height of it's boom as a hedge against our $22T currency heading south. Brilliant.

I ridicule Wyoming a lot, living in Fort Collins. They make West Virginians look positively modern by comparison.

Merge all states with fewer than 5 million people.
Split all states over 10 million.

I understand he did the quad jump, and then figured out to do ALL four of the quad jumps.

Crypto is not an income generating 'investment'.

Young iris peaking out from the ground

Meanwhile, in Fort Collins, the irises stopped waiting for Winter and are moving on to Spring. 18 C again today.

DOW 30 The latest market data for all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Dow 30 is weighted by the stock price making it a miserable indicator of anything.

Headline: 'Dow surges 700 points as Market....'

Reality: Goldman and Caterpillar had a good day., They have the highest stock prices per share, three times the average.

Dow 30 and $ per share are irrelevant.

My dad was a bank officer in the Sixties and Seventies had a group of typists (always 'the girls'). In the Eighties, he was expected to write his own memos with word processor.

In this age of AI angst, think of all the unemployed typists that figured out a more useful way to make a living.

Go, Joe, go!

Why do churches always get special treatment? Just no. Churches should pay their taxes for a change and follow the same rules as the rest of us.

Space is hard. Hydrogen in harder.

UAE buying half of Trump's crypto company for half a billion US$ was a start.

These kids these days make me proud. The protesters are no longer my fellow sexagenarians and septuagenarians. Lovely FoCo day.

Ride for Alex

Hey, keep up. Yesterday Fox led with a Chinese businessman who is funding the whole thing.

I have always poo pooed New Shepard, but now they have a very big reusable rocket and ten years of experience. Perhaps the celebrities served a purpose after all.

I can't remember ever having to re-log in on my Pixel. Odd.

Almost as an afterthought at the end of the cabinet meeting Mr. Trump addressed Vice President JD Vance: “JD, if you’d like to say something you can. He is, after all, the vice president of the United States.”

Mr. Vance replied, “It’s OK, sir, I’m here for the free coffee.”

Save a mutt and they'll save you back.

MSFT had 39% growth in cloud versus the expected 40%, so they are down 11%. Ridiculous. I have never been so glad to be a long term investor.

The ACTING director of ICE says:

'the floggings shall continue until morale improves'

Jamming in a room of musicians and friends last night I mentioned New Wave to a room full of blank stares. This ignorance is a crime against my generation.

I cancelled the Coloradoan a couple weeks ago. Weak rag.