That’s a bummer; hopefully you guys get your smell/taste back faster than I did. Waiting eight months to fully smell and taste my food again was more than a little bit irritating.

Mac wouldn't recognize the apple keyboard that worked on an older model of the same Mac. [...] I see. Yeah, I get your frustration. As much as I appreciate Apple's overall quality of their devices and the way they (usually) interoperate seamlessly with each other within the Apple ecosystem, they do...

dualstow wrote: vinny was right. i officially regret buying another Mac

What was Vinny right about, and why do you officially regret buying another Mac?

Kind of reminds me of the early days of Web search engines, when the search results were flooded with useless auto-generated pages containing nothing but long strings of random words and phrases, designed to maximize search engine hits. It was really annoying. But after a few years, the search engin...

2) Tex and Craig picked up his torch big-time by writing their book. But each of them have now seemingly turned their backs on the concept. That leaves the dwindling number of participants in this forum to provide any form of guidance, none who have either risen to the level of authority of a Harry...

As I said earlier, it looks like not only will those hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died in vain, but Ukraine will actually end up with much less territory than if they had accepted the peace deal that was worked out within a month of the conflict starting, before the US and UK put the ki...

Also, Jerry dated Skyler and George dated Gretchen.

old thread, old pick. It is not my next pick. There’s an interesting article in the WSJ about Apple’s struggle to replace Qualcomm’s modem chip with something in-house. It’s relatively difficult compared to designing their own microprocessor. In the meantime, Apple will buy the chips from Qcom thro...

Yeah, I didn't start playing the King's Quest games until the early '90s, and by then they had done VGA/SVGA remakes of some of them (as Xan mentioned), so they looked much better than the originals. That was before CD-ROM was widespread, so the games were still installed from floppy disks. Although...

If you go back to 1980, a $10k investment in stocks would be worth over $1 million now. PP would be $200k and ST Treasuries $99k. Impressive indeed. For the person who can stomach the stock market's wild multi-year swings without bailing, and also has a crystal ball that assures them no financial o...

I’m a *huge* fan of King’s Quest, as my brother and I really enjoyed it in the 80s (1980?) after seeing someone play it in the store. But in this case, I merely typed “8-bit castle” into google images. I was obsessed with the King's Quest series back in the day, too. Something about the detailed fa...

I have no regrets going all in on the PP in late 2010 and sticking with it since then. It has had a modest CAGR of 5.0% over that 13-year period, with a max negative return of -11.9% in 2022. It has allowed me to mostly shrug off market turmoil and sleep soundly as I focus on working and accumulatin...

Okay, I’ll bite: “A banana republic, if you can keep it.”

Smith1776 wrote: Been getting really into zombie apocalypse games and movies lately. Throw me some suggestions if you have any.

Lighthearted: Zombieland

Not-so-lighthearted: 28 Days Later

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:46 pm Peaches & Haerosmith - "Shake Your Dude Thing"

https://youtu.be/ZlnVBxv_6ec

Whoah, every mash-up on that YouTube channel is genius! Here’s another gem:

James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman"

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:35 am I just finished watching Mad Max for the first time ever.

I honestly don’t get the hype. The movie was very meh to me.

Mad Max: Fury Road > Mad Mad 2 (The Road Warrior) > Mad Max.

And before Michelle Makori, the previous editor-in-chief and lead anchor for Kitco was Daniela Cambone:



I'm sensing a pattern here...

I dunno if these numbers are true, that Stanfords endowment went from 30 billion in 2020 to 75B, but in any event it explains the glee with which universities forced the jabs into 18 year olds https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-endowment-funds/ Not sure I follow. I assumed that since the j...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 6:58 am

Doesn’t shine when it should

— totally agree, Barrett.

I think you’re talking about the sad trombone sound.
I like that, but I prefer the Price is Right Fail - https://youtu.be/_asNhzXq72w

Those are both classics. The Curb Your Enthusiasm melody is another great one for fails.

You find this from the recommended books on investing to read like it was AI created? All reads to me as if it were written by a unique human being. As I already stated in my previous comment, “The short intro prose before the list may have been written by a human, but the lists themselves could ea...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 8:42 pm May as well get used to A.I.-created content. It’s going to be everywhere.

I’m fine with AI-generated content as long as proper attribution is given. For example, “Powered by GPT-4” or “Some of the content on this site was generated using GPT-4” at the bottom of the web page.

Was it written by AI? I'd rate it extremely unlikely. You can go there and judge for yourself but I don't think AI is capable of creating a list of 50+ investing books to read broken down into four categories. All in all a highly impressive web site, packed with useful information. Sounds like exac...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:58 am 2060 futures
2050+ spot price (AJPM)
1PM EST

For the first time in a long while, gold is the best-performing asset YTD in the PP. It's even beating LASAGNE!

The only thing Roche doesn't address here is the possibility of a default in the next few months due to the debt ceiling circular firing squad antics in Congress. Because of that I'm going to wait to pull the trigger on locking in some high yields with a T Bill ladder until after the clown car has ...