Today's Tids Issue 5,516
There is always one:
The hardest thing about being old is hearing that your friends are sick.
I find it is better to believe in yourself than in the weatherman.
The Repubs did themselves a big favor when with Dems they quickly squashed Empty Green’s motion ot dump Johnson 359-43.
FC tells us that to us people only have foreign accents until they laugh. A reader asks teh Question: “Name a title of a movie that describes your golf game?” As an example, he suggests “The Longest Yard” and “Apocalypse Now”. What would be your contributions?
I think he threw in Apocalypse Now to see if I knew how to spell it!
I might add to the movie mix, “The Big Short”, “The Green Mile” and. “It is a Wonderful Life.” ... to walk around stupid thinking, you can play.
The Question:
What was the name of Elon Musk’s first company? Bonus: The Beatles in the 1960’s had a 36-month run atop the “Billboard Top 100" bestselling record list. What recording in 1966 dumped them from the top?
The Headlines:
--Dow Strong, Nas Good; New Jobless Claims Reach New High; WS looking to go Defensive, Taking Profits.
--World Looking to See Effects of Biden Weapon Holdback.
--New Storms Threaten Texas to Northeast.
--Stormy Steps Down; In Fierce Battle with Trump Lawyer.
The Big techs are pouring big bucks into AI even as the explosion of last year's surge buying starts fading fast as revenue didn’t materialize. After finding that 2024 was not yet the year, much heralded darlings are being battered now with self-offs. But the Bigs have enormous cash reserves and can afford to wait. But those who tried to catch a shooting star will have to wait to hope the sell-off isn't too big.
When all is said and done, it is still about special people.
Sriracha lovers be warned that teh red jalapeno peppers just aren't the correct color shade, so they have stopped production. Who knew? I guess I'll just have to make do with rich creamy chicken gravy.
Me: "I have a fear of tsunamis." Doc. "How bad is it?"
Me: "It comes in waves".
I just went out for a long walk hoping to stimulate my lethargic mind. It was a nice walk, neath blossomed cherry trees. Streets scattered with Cherry blossom petals after last night's storm. It was one of those true soul soothers. So, when I got back in front of the keyboard it still looked blah, and I also found it impossible to write about mediocre Presidents and selfish people sniping at each other, and wars and cruelty; a bad Red Sox game... just didn’t seem right after feeling the beauty nature.
One of the Reasons I like watching The Wheel of Fortune is that it is full of nice appearing people of all races who genuinely seem to enjoy each other, and even root for other when they are defeated. And Pat Sajak always makes me laugh out loud.
Really, Really Big, Department:
If the Sun were shrunk to the size of a white blood cell (about ten times smaller than the smallest object a human can see), the Earth would be the size of a small RNA virus particle. At that scale, the orbit of Neptune would be just about 2 inches in diameter. Our Milky Way Galaxy would then be… ready… the size of North America and our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda would be 91,000 miles away. Now, that's interesting.
The Answer:
Elon Musk’s first company was software outfit called Zip2, back in 1995. He sold that company in 1999 for $300 million, and used his profits to start Paypal, SpaceX and to acquire Tesla. Bonus: See below.
Kind of makes you smile:
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