Gyroscopic Investing

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:16 am What do you think, Smithers
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/168 ... 87875?s=20

lmao!!

Funny thing: anyone who's Canadian ABSOLUTELY knows not to wear a jacket over a shirt that says "Canada" on it. This happens way more often than one might think.

I've even seen one poor fellow who had that happen on picture day in school.

Maybe he did it on purpose.
eh, probably not

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 1:46 pm Maybe he did it on purpose.
eh, probably not

Elon honestly seems to be going a bit off the deep end recently. I hope his mental health is okay.

He has seemed “off” to me for a very long time. Brilliant, capable, creative, and also off.

Somehow that image along with my use of the word "classy" reminded me of this hilarious early attempt at removing obscenity:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsto ... wrong.html

The Clbuttic Mistake: When obscenity filters go wrong

President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.

I remember when that happened to Lincoln…in jail. Always tragic and shocking when someone is unwittingly buttbuttinated.

RIP Mark Margolis, aka Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:49 pm RIP Mark Margolis, aka Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Did somebody swap his pills or something?

Ding.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:49 pm
RIP Mark Margolis, aka Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Refresh my memory as to what the character was? He wasn't the one who had half his face blown off in the nursing home? Or, was that him?

I watched both series many years after they came out and in a compressed span of time. I don't think I've yet seen the latest season(s) of Better Call Saul.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:59 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:49 pm RIP Mark Margolis, aka Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Refresh my memory as to what the character was? He wasn't the one who had half his face blown off in the nursing home? Or, was that him?

I watched both series many years after they came out and in a compressed span of time. I don't think I've yet seen the latest season(s) of Better Call Saul.

Ding.

Ding ding ding.

Ding.

BOOM.

Okay. More is coming back to me.

At the beginning he was this somewhat obsequious manager / owner of a fast food restaurant? Then he was later revealed to be a major drug kingpin? And, he had been waiting for decades to take out his revenge on another drug kingpin for what that one had done to him as a child? A brother also involved?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:06 pmBOOM.

Just turning back to our computer discussion we had previously.

This new MacBook's battery life is friggin' AMAZING.

I wish Vil were still around. (Maybe he checks in?) I wanted to see if he’s read Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov.
I’m reading the English translation, and the original title is…let’s see here … Времеубежище.

Yes, DS, that's the exact translation. My wife bought the book as a gift to my father (he's avid reader), several months before the book got public attention. He was (kind of) dissapointed, but he rarely hails a book, so nothing unusual. Do you like it so far?

PS. I still keep coming here as part of some weird habit (daily routine), but not much to share. Still working hard, as PP do not deliver as promised and I can't spend all my time at the Greek beaches (but can spend part of it... guess that was the real PP promise... )

I’m glad you still check in just the same.
(I was underbought in long bonds so I’m not allowed to complain).

I do like the book so far. It kind of reminds me of an Umberto Eco book I read long ago. It’s quite enjoyable. This might be because I’m finally reading fiction again on the heels of at least 3 nonfiction books, but I’m often disappointed with novels. This one’s good.

I also hope Kriegs is looking forward to the Musk/Zuckerberg match

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 2:15 pm I also hope Kriegs is looking forward to the Musk/Zuckerberg match

We should start a betting pool lol!

I. Hate. JavaScript.

That is all.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:11 pm I. Hate. JavaScript.

That is all.

Kind of weird that it has persisted and become ubiquitous. I don’t know anyone who likes it.
I asked chatGPT about it and “he” told me 10 positive things about it. Fair enough.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:40 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:11 pm
I. Hate. JavaScript.

That is all.

Kind of weird that it has persisted and become ubiquitous. I don’t know anyone who likes it.
I asked chatGPT about it and “he” told me 10 positive things about it. Fair enough.

Somewhat like 2016 when so many people when polled did not want to admit that they were going to vote for Trump which, of course, threw off all the pre-election polling. Now for some reason people do not want to admit that they like JavaScript?