Today's Tids Issue 5717
Loose change:
Every new day is different.
Yesterdays were memories,
Though warming to the heart.
New fires will ignite,
In so many tomorrows,
The yesterdays to be.
There’s an awful lot of people right now in these United States frozen in time. Where will it all end up?
I read an interesting opening line to a story this morning, “Besides earnings from Big Tech, we will also hear from IBM...” IBM gave us what Big Tech a has become. And now they are an also ran.
There is nothing permanent except change. --Heraclitus
With Twitter being re-branded to “X” What do we call tweets after the change? Excretions
The Question:
Who were the first five players in the Baseball a Hall of fame? 11 Player sin NFL Hall of Fame? NBA Hall of Fame? NHL Hall of Fame?
The Headlines:
--Judge Halts Trump’s Funding Freeze after States Panic.
--Big Wall Street Day: FED Meeting Could Reveal how it sees itself in TrumpWorld; Key Mag Seven Stocks Meta, Microsoft and Tesla Report after Bell; Oppenheimer Gives Apple a third Downgrade over Slipping China iPhone sales ahead of its Earnings Tomorrow; GM Plunges 9% After Less than desirable Earnings Showing.
--Trump Admin Offers all Fed Employees 8 Month Buyout Package; All Employees Ordered Back to Office Work.
--30 Dead, Many More Injured in Crowd Crush at India's gigantic Kumbh Mela Festival.
--Denmark to Spend $2 Billion for Military Defense of North Atlantic in Response to Trump GreenLand Overture.
Most people are not curious about things like this, but I am. I have wondered why Poe's The Raven gets so much respect and publicity -- this poem not just another poem. The poem that took the natin by storm when Published in the New York Mirror in1845 is considered famous due to its haunting atmosphere, masterful use of rhythm and rhyme, and its exploration of universal themes like grief and loss. And of course, the deep love for Lenore. The use of the raven and the word “Nevermore” deeply "resonates and creates psychological torment within the narrative.”. It became popular because people published and read poems mainstream media then. It was particularly moving and spoke of intense love. never to be found again even in the world beyond. This one stood out and caught the fancy of even children at the time who when seeing celebrity Poe walking would run by flapping their arms like wings. We would turn, stare and shout, “Nevermore.’ If he wrote that poem today as good as it was, it would likely be buried neath discussions of Family Guy and The Simpsons, and Hollywood marital troubles,
And the race for AI supremacy continues – former red hot stock darling Ali Baba announced today that it has AI that is better than DeepSeek. I kind a think that we are in the shaking the apple tree era of AI development and acceptance, don't you. That makes AI investing a big gamble. Everybody wants to get on the ground floor of the next big technology wave. That's about it.
To me there is nothing inaner than stories about celebrities and the entertainment industry.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. --John F. Kennedy
Who is Heraclitus you wonder. He was a Greek, pre-Socratic philosopher. Yes another one. He also said: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he is not the same man.”
Personally, I think understanding change is the essence of survival. We all do it even when we seem to fight it.
Let's see, Trump owns Office buildings, and he is ordering all i employees to stop working at home. He just won the landlord vote for a third term. Just kidding.
The Answer:
The first five in the Baseball HoF were Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter “Big Train” Johnson. In the NFL we had Red Grange, Don Hutson, Dutch Clark, Bronko Nagurski, Mel Hein, Pete Henry, Cal Hubbard, Sammy Baugh, Johnny McNally, Ernie Nevers and Jim Thorpe. The NBA first class had a lot of contributors like inventor Naismith, but only four players: George Mikan, Hank Luisette, John Schommer and Charles Hyatt. In the NHL we had Hobey Baker, Charlie Gardiner, Eddie Gerard, Frank McGee, Howie Morenz, Tommy Phillips, Harvey Pulford, Hod Stuart and George Vezina.
...Just in case you forgot the old guys. The games changed but their contributions haven’t.
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” --Steve Jobs
Yes, looking forward can be pretty darn good.
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