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Doesn't change the point, but I don't see a 5 bubble in the strike zone. ON EDIT; Now I do. I didn't look way up there.

Trading day number 7. Dow has broken out to the upside, but the S&P and NASDAQ are still inside the large candle. This is the S&P chart, and today's print is what the chartist call a Doji. Not a perfect one, but close. Given where the open/close was this one was right in the middle. They are known to predict a trend reversal but in this case I'm not sure that is true. If it was outside that large candle, after this 40% run up since April I might believe it more. But it is what it is. Fun to watch one way or another. The yellow arrow around September 6th is when the Fed cut rates and I called the top. Obviously, that wasn't the top.

Everyone should experience the Indy 500. Doesn't matter if you are a race fan.

When the playoffs started and those people were in the studio I went immediately mute. A root canal might be more fun.

I never looked into it, but it sounds like Canvas is used very widely. It can really do some neat stuff. During COVID I had 20 people, 10 in two different rooms. Canvas was easy to setup video feeds through Microsoft teams to the room I couldn't be in. Worked great for the classrooms, or people who were remote. Log into Canvas and we are good to go. Then of course, there was the cluster **** only the brilliant people who ran our school gave me. Room one - E214. Room two - E102. That's one floor and half a wing apart. I guess I needed the exercise.

I haven't followed so I don't know, but many times history told us criminals are many times not too smart. It's about the biggest and bestest burgle. How cool would it be to plan the greatest heist in history? I was a burglar as a young puppy so I love that stuff.

I really liked Canvas. I always kept a "development shell" which served as inventory to use as needed. But that's only my simple end. I thought it was a very good system. But then there is stuff like what happened today. If I go to class and can't get into Canvas (as well as the kids), we are done, period.

Are you admitting, as a moderator, you read our private messages?

Update on this puppy. After 6 trading days, of all the market action between the sell off candle, which is now 6 trading days ago, two of our indexes are still within that candle. The DOW went above today, which the chartist might call a breakout. The DOW is a piss poor index to watch. Both the S&P and the NASDAQ are still within this candle. Not that that means anything, but I'm getting a kick out of watching it. I would love to find some 108 year old Japanese guy who helped develop the candlestick system to see if there is a tip here. :-)

Wait till AI fixes this ****.

I think it would be the neatest thing EVER to figure out how to rob a place you are not suppose to be able to rob.

That if screwing up quite a few things. I got an email from the college I don't work at anymore saying Canvas, software used for for our entire learning system is down, and on social media a local restaurant posted this; Of course I have an order on AMZN I am anxiously waiting on. Wonder how much it will be delays. I could log in but not track the package.

I think you are already a programmer, so Java might come real easy for you. I tried to learn it once, back around 2005ish? It wasn't my first rodeo. I first learned a little, what was it, basic, that was one of the first DOS languages you could use? Dabbled in C, Java, a real goofy language called "Fourth", visual basic once we had windows (I did kind of like that), and an internal program used in my CAD system. I hated programming, which is why I avoided it, and made sure in every interview I told them I am NOT a programmer, if that's what you want, I'm not your guy. I get the logic and all that, but it's not for me. I think only certain people have the gyro to do that, and I respect them greatly.

Benton Harbor - a blast from the past. St. Joe/Benton Harbor was Whirlpool's mothership as I called it. I had to go up there all the time, a 3 1/2 to 4 hour drive. I always stayed at The Boulevard Inn & Bistro. Nice place, only 85 bucks a night, and about 10 minutes from the tech center campus. We had a deal for 85 bucks a night because the kid of Whirlpool's CEO at the time, owned the hotel. If you worked for WHR, 85 bucks, which also helped our travel budget as well. They beat us up on that. Peak season that was cheap, and close. I got in trouble about three times from my boss because I was staying there. First thing he would say - where are you staying. The The Boulevard. Yap, yap, yap... It's only 85 bucks dumbass, but you can't say that. Eventually, everyone who traveled to the mothership had to stay 5 or more miles away and spend 150 bucks a night for a room. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Why would we argue with Allen Trammel? I named a kid after him. I think those guys had a different approach at the plate. When you need a single or fly ball to score a run, they would find a pitch to do so. Instead of trying to hit the ball to Mars. And defense...Those guys were fundamentally better than MLB today, but so are the kids who play in the little league World Series. I can't believe what I see. I remember a game a long time ago, Detroit was playing Baltimore and Al Kaline stopped into the booth for an inning or two. Great stuff, as we would expect. I wish I could remember the year. They asked him what stuck out to him over the years of how the game has changed. He said; now days, if you can hit 20 home runs you can leave your glove in the bus. So true, then there were guys like Bob Gibson.

I think you have to go by era. The guys today are incredible athletes. The 68 Tigers, maybe not. Same game, different time, but then again, maybe not. I really want to believe those old guys could hold their own even today. But, I'm old and stupid. 🙂

Suarez looked at a first pitch right in the hot zone and looked at it. He hit a tougher pitch, outside and on the bottom part of the plate for the slam. He got it done. That was wild.

If our laws truly mattered DC would be empty tomorrow.

Yea, same kind of ****. I never got it. We had issues, and we knew we had issues, but we never addressed them. I always said "you can't fix a problem unless you admit you have one." I think it goes back to the corporate climber wannabees. It was all about them. And the bean counters. I find it really sad. Given the advances in tech, we could be doing so much more, but don't, or can't, given the system.

The irony is off the charts. John Bolton has made a career as a part of the killing machine to people all over the world, along with being a liar, and war criminal.

How about a little chart porn. I love chart porn. Below is a chart of the S&P going back to March. You can see the low bubble at 4835.04 (4/7/2025) and the high bubble at 6764.58 (10/10/2025). That's about a 40 percent rip if I did the math right. That's nuts. If you look up at the very top right, there is some interesting things going on. Let's look at a closer picture. The trading day after the market hit the top bubble, Thursday 10-9, it took a big **** on Friday. Since then the trading days have not been outside of that large candle printed that Friday. I think that is something to watch.

I will always get more complicated due to technology, but they forget (or fail to acknowledge it) the most important rule of design - the KISS rule - keep it simple stupid. I worked in a test lab starting in 1987 where we were laying the ground work for where we are today. We did some incredible stuff, then the bean counters took over...

I'm not surprised. To make a long story short, I have a 2016 Colorado, purchased new from a dealer. A few months ago i noticed my temperature gauge going up into the hot zone, then coming back to normal. I took it to the dealer, they put in a new thermostat, sensor, and flushed the coolant system. Over 850 bucks - and it didn't fix it. They wouldn't do anything about it, unless I paid more money. For what? Fixing a problem you already failed to fix? So I took it to another dealer. This one only cost me 650 bucks, and they failed to fix it as well, and they had it for 3 days. WTF? But I did get this piece of paper that was a GM service bulletin that said, and I quote; Condition deemed normal by engineering at this time. Translated - they have a piss poor design that they can't fix, and a recall would be too expensive - so we will **** you over and then let the non-existent customer service take care of the rest. TL;DR - you are ****ed.

It ain't senility.

I saw a clip of Mitch having a fall today, and another with Pelosi getting assisted. Why are these fossils still there? If they had any integrity they would have retired long ago, along with many others. They didn't because they don't have any integrity, not one ounce. We are governed by a bunch of worthless paid off and blackmailed creeps, every last one of them. And if you don't play the game you don't get there. Anyone who believe otherwise has their head firmly stuffed up their ass.