Today's Tids Issue 5,413
Really, what changes:
Today is Hump Day
For the week that ends.
Wondering now,
What’s round the bends.
What the Fed signals
To the Street sends.
How will the herds react
To surprising cultural trends
Looking at all the people
Hoping the country mends
Could we see extremes,
How diverse opinion blends.
And in three hundred sixty-five
As the 24 curtain descends,
Will we suddenly look around
And find us all as friends.
Minimum wage activists are looking forward to mini-orgasms next week when the wage jumps to $14. It will always be a minimum and it will always less than is needed to raise a family. For as wages go up, prices always go up too. Or jobs are cut. The cycle never ends, works up past the bottom. It’s a desperate exercise in futility and reminds me of the mythic Australian Oozlum bird flies in ever decreasing concentric circles until it flies up its own rectum. Minimum wage increases are just politico-economic silliness.
This is “Substitute Week” which could be good or bad news. It's the week when radio personalities take a vacation. Some of the replacements are god-awful especially some of the political commentators trying to be outrageous and make a name for themselves. On the good side, we often get better sports talkers who are more about sports than celebrity.
Restaurant customer to eth waitress: “How do you prepare the chicken?”
Waitress: “We just tell them flat out they are going to die.”
The Question:
When did revelers first gather on Times Square to welcome the New Year?
The Headlines:
--S&P Nearing All Time High; Stocks Hang Positive; Tesla Shpoments Reaching Highs but Missing Estimates.
--NY Times Sues Microsoft for Infringing on Copyrighted Work; Says Computer Giant Used Millions of NYT Articles to Train Artificial Intelligence.
--Government Holds Back Ban on Apple Watch Sales.
--Michigan Suprem Courts Says Trump Should Saty on Ballot.
No matter how much chocolate you eat, your earrings will still fit.
Basically, AI is a parasite living off the creations of humans.
It may seem to you that I'm being pretty negative lately about college football. I played college football and loved every minute of it. As a kid, other than the US Marines my heroes were college football players --Doak Walker, Charlie Trippe, Johnny Lujack, Emil “Six Yard” Sitko, Leon Hart, Charlie “Choo-Choo” Justice. Maybe I am a bit negative these days, because all my boyhood dreams of yore are now painted green”.
In case you haven’t noticed everything is appearing that it will be about segmented TV. Yesterday I saw notice r for the new “PickleTV Network”. Digital convenience will enable TV producers to target the smallest of groups of American followers of anything, as long as they have wallets that open.
That NY Times suit against Microsoft for infringement will be just the bunnings. Many creators from novelists to journalists and writers of infinite varieties are tired of seeing their copyrighted worked being usurped and fed to the ever-gorging Aritificial Intelligence machine.
But it seems what is really going to be scary, many honest observers are saying, is the dilution of trust in political writings as it is expected AI will be misused in the 2024 battels.
RI is also banning plastic bags across the board beginning next week. So I’ll fo do more shopping in Massachusetts, I reuse plastic bags for multiple purposes, so tis could be a hoarding week.
Man to woman: “These burgers are actually good for you – they’re plant based.”
Woman: “Really? But they are so declivous, Which kind of plant do they come from?”
Man; A meat-processing plant.
Have you heard that a new popular trend among 20 somethings is “Diet Coke”. Yes, it is in.
This was a great Christmas season for retailers. The big number is the first $1 Trillion in sales. That means that returns will also be record breaking.
1988 may be remembered for that scene of Dem Prez candidate Michael Dukakis riding around in a Tank, and that this was the year that Americans dove into Prozac. It was a sad year as the world was numbed by the Libya planted bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, killing 193 passengers. Iraq launched a poisoned Gas attack on thr Kurds. It was the year Russia gave up on its Afghanistan wars and American leaders forgot to read the news item. The Dow crept over 2000 and pork chops were 46 cents/lb. Iran-Contra players North, Poindexter, Secord and Hakim were indicted. England ski jumper Eddie the Eagle was the folk hero of the Calgary Winter Olympics and USSR, East Germany and Switzerland won the most medals. Top movies were The Rainman, Diehard, Big, Good Morning Viet Nam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Moonstruck. I thought Nick Cage was an odd duck and somewhat annoying, but I somehow liked the romcom in the end. I also saw “A Fish called Wanda” and it was at best, quirky. It was the kind of movie you are told you should like so you will be “in”. Faith by George Michael was the number one song, but mostly the music of 1988 did little for me . Guns and Roses was big, but their concert in Cincinnati was a terrible tragedy. Hip hop arrived. So that's about it for 1988. Seems a little lackluster... oh wait -- a shy retiring guy went on air for his little radio show in1988 -- Yes Rush Limbaugh came along, and something really changed In America. Ironically For George Bush #1 who was elected in 88, it was Limbaugh who really took him down in in 92. My daughter number one got married. That was the big one in my household.
When I was working, I never took off this week between Christmas and New Years. I always found the office to be super quiet and an efficient environment in which to get a lot more done. The family had plenty to do with at home holiday festivities. And going away somewhere that week when everybody else in the universe goes somewhere, just doesn’t compute in my mind
The Answer:
Revelers began celebrating Times Square in 1904, But it was 1907 when the New Years Eve Ball first descended.
Well, Tommy Smorthers just died at the age of 86 Tom Smother really made me laugh over the years. (There's more in the link below than you may want to see):
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