Looking Backwards … LB #1 Friday morning the world woke up to the true depth of Microsoft dependence. It turns out Crowdstrike, a third party vendor, rolled out an update on the Microsoft platform and it crashed the Microsoft platform, worldwide for hours. Flights were cancelled, skies were empty, traders couldn’t trade, acres of cubicles …
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.” Voltaire Seldom have I been as surprised as I was in the late 1990’s when the stock market went up every day. If it snowed it was because of the snow and if it was sunny the sunshine lifts traders spirits so they must be buying because of …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 If we looked at the three branches of American government (executive, legislative, and judicial) and count all the stories written about each one I would be very surprised if the judicial wasn’t last, and last by an order of magnitude. Biden has all the headlines now as he tries to …
I can’t take the credit for today because today’s focus is on a website called wtfhappenedin1971.com. That is a good question and one we are going to try and answer with the help of some good data and some sense of history. I will do my best to describe the excellent visual representations of data …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 About ten days ago in the beach town of Sevastopol, Crimea sun worshippers were catching some rays on their beach loungers before a mysterious thing happened. This from ZeroHedge, “Unbelievable new footage has emerged of the Sunday Ukrainian missile strike on a busy Sevastopol, Crimea beach as tourists were lounging …
This is the most financially dangerous thing we have talked about for a very long time because this is kryptonite. You know, the stuff that can take down Superman and superman in our little world is obviously Nvidia. This is a fuse being lit and no one has been paying attention, but now just now …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 I was reading an article during the debate and a headline flashed up that said Biden stumbles and I thought he fell during the debate. He didn’t fall literally, but it sounds like it couldn’t have gone much worse. On Thursday night we got to see why popularity contests are …
I have an important topic that I have been wanting to write about, but I feel like this topic today is just too important, too timely, and too much fun. We rarely have fun here at the C Thomas Printer Cooperative. This is a place of vegetables and protractors not slip and slides and pillow …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 We talked about the Euro elections and how that was able to shake up European politics last week. The wonderful thing about societies where we do have enough freedom to have elections is that sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, the people get their head out of their asses, and vote some …
I find traditions very instructive concerning how things have been, are, and probably will be. The American Heritage dictionary has three definitions of tradition that I want to investigate today. The first definition is “The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication.” This one has stood the …