Today's Tids Issue 5,361
We need a new tune in DC:
Burt Bachrach just died at eh age of 94. Wow did he fill this world of ours with happiness and music from the fifties through the end of the 90’s. His first popular song was in 1952 – Once in a Blue Moon, sung by Nat King Cole. Yeah that's about how often gut like Burt comes along -- Once in a blue moon.
A good friend of mine queried the AI knowledge resource ChatGBT and learned that the TAM for EV makers is huge. At a current cost of about $55k per EV and the need to replace all of the 250 million registered vehicles with EV’s, it would cost a whopping $16.825 Trillion. That's a great number for investors in auto makers, but maybe not so hot for citizens if the Gov is subsidizing it all.
Pain can also be positive, the kind we feel and endure on the long road to getting down to 2% inflation.
An armed man ran into a real estate agency and shouted: "Nobody move."
Today is the 80th anniversary of the US marine’s Victory over Japan at Guadal Canal. For some reason when we were kids, we always played the game of Marines winning on the bloody sands of Guadal. To me and my neighborhood friends, those marines were our heroes. I remember taking out a lot of Japanese machine gunners at the time, just with my wooden pistol.
The Question:
What were top five best Superbowl Half time shows? Bonus: Alice Walker is an author. For what is she best known?
The Headlines:
--Markets Open Higher Globally and in US, Continue Positive into Early PM; Mortgage Rates Edging Higher.
--Turkey Syria Death Toll Up Over 19,300; Now Higher than Fukushima; Many More Thousands of Survivors Have Nowhere to go In Freezing Cold.
--US May Take Action Against China for Illicit Balloon Invasion.
--Weekly Jobless Claims Increase.
--Super Songwriter Burt Bachrach Dead at 94.
A long-time reader from Oklahoma writes to say a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders. He’s been thinking about what to self-identify as and decided to go Non-Bidentary!
Good news for eaters like me. I had a minor panic attack yesterday wondering what I would drink if the cost of Diet Pepsi and Coke prices went out of sight. But this morning Pepsi says no more price increases. Bring on the orange snacks. It is highly likely that Coke will do the same making those diet nectars of the gods affordable a little while longer --- as you adroitly play the “on-sale” game.
Despite all the other super intelligent companies, right now it looks like Microsoft against Google is a battle about wo will own the world. Microsoft is touting tehri assimilation OpenAI and ChatGBT while yesterday Google introduced their AI competitor, Bard, Microsoft earlier in the week inrounded its significantly more powerful Bing search engine to take on the standard, Google. These guys are big and the exponential growth of AI and their involvement in it will just make them bigger. It is the old inevitability theory at work again.
Until, that is, some congressperson decides to hold anti-trust hearings. Is AI enlightening or frightening or just more bowel tightening.
Maybe they should reserve bicycle lanes for driverless cars.
I don’t know about your area, but around here house sales are coming in noticeably lower than asking prices.
The TidsPickers are in the gym exercising getting ready for the big pick tomorrow. So far this august collection of gym rats is 10-2 in the payoffs. The misses were Giants beating Minn and KC beating Cinn. I personally thought Cinn was a lock. Especially with the magician's hobbled ankle. So, tune in tomorrow.
The way we see cars piling into buildings lately you have to suspect that we are already into the driverless age.
Does the big Kevin Durant trade make the Phoenix Suns an NBA Championship contender. Maybe – Nuggets=-Suns in the West.
Disney announced the laying off of 7,500 yesterday. The Prez at SOTU the night before was touting jobs creation, largely on that 526K anomaly. But inflation is eating into people's income corporate profitability and that will tend to force a slowdown in a classic people reduction vicious circle. The trend seems to be jobs obfuscation as opposed to creation.
Lebron has certainly beena great basketball player but there are many more who I enjoyed watching play the game more.
A Boston state legislator wants to pass a bill that would subsidize newspapers. Hmm. So much for freedom of the press. You know the old saying, take the Government's buck and your life or entity is forever F-----. By the way, Newpapers are doomed. I love my morning paper, but there is just too much competition not only nationally but locally with myriad sites reporting local news. Now if they want to subsidize the continuation of Comics Pages, than I’m in.
The Answer:
The top Superbowl shows have been #1 Katy Perry 2013. She is followed by Lady Gaga 2017, Coldplay-Beyonce-Mars 2016, Bruno Mars 2014, Madonna 2012, Beyonce 2013, Black Eyed Peas 2011 and Justin Timberlake 2015. Bonus: Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple.
Burt Bachrach just died at 94. He was one of the all-time greatest songwriters. He wrote songs, many with lyricist Hal David, for Perry Como, Marty Robbins, The Shirelles, Frankie Avalon, The Drifters all the way to Jackie DeShannon, BJ Thomas and Diane Warwick -- who must have been his favorite songbird. How many people danced or fellen in love to his music. Here’s one I liked.
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