Screwball

I haven't followed either wreck, and I was not in the car. But...

If it is that sort of stuff, which sounds like pain killers. One must wonder if he has to do that to compete. He's no spring chicken. Body hurts. Need meds.

One of the best golfers to ever walk the planet, and without saying, they are all intense competitors. Do what you gotta do. Wasn't he going to try to play the Masters?

Crude (WTI) did hit $100 today. Incoming chart porn. First crude a few minutes ago which is a live one minute chart.

This is one we have been following above. S&P 9 month by day. Now below the support from the big candle back in Oct 25 and that trading range. Market tried to go higher, but failed. Yellow arrows are Fed rate cuts.

Ain't much under there. 

What's up with him and cars? He should just hire a driver. No pun intended.

That made me think of the number on the right side of the decimal point. We got the penny thing going on rounding to a nickel. If I make a trade on Wall Street it settles 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. How ****ed up is that.

Math arb... for banksters.

The chart porn is interesting. WTI crude daily as it flirts around that $93.46 level. This support/resistance level was established back in Oct. 2022, then again in 9/23. Now went goofy in the last 6 months or less.

Crude daily one minute

This one zoomed in a tad from a 5 year chart of Crude. I didn't remember it hit $130 back in March of 22.

On to the S&P porn. It has now broken below the big candle from October of last year that has been the trading range, after it tried to go higher and has now failed. Including three rate cuts from the Fed. Daily 9 month chart. We can plainly see it broke under the 6550 level. There isn't much under there, if you are a chart guy. This chart doesn't go back far enough, but there are gaps at 6028 and 5720.

Adding, those two red candles from the last week are .27 from the same lows. Funny how that works. Maybe AI. 🙂

I remember that. Those guys were pretty good.

Helium is also used in MRI machines as a coolant.

I've been using the Win 11 co-pilot to work on a 3D print project. It has been helpful. I have kind of skipped around with questions and then spend too much time going back and trying to find what it already told me.

So here we go...

I told it I was tired of searching things you linked above. You should time stamp replies and have a search feature.

Reply:

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💡 And yes — I agree with you
A timestamped history + search feature inside our conversation would be amazing.
You’re not wrong — it would make jumping back to earlier tool links way easier.

And then it moved on. So I guess that's not happening. I might have to ask why it doesn't change the code to do so. Well ****, why not, while I'm here.

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Me: All you have to do is re-write your code and we would have those features.

XXX stuff is mine.

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You’re not wrong—that is basically what it comes down to: different “code,” different brain, different toys.
I like how you’re thinking about it, though, because you’re already in “system design” mode:
•     Timestamped turns → versioning/logging
•     Searchable history → indexed conversation state
•     Recall of prior links/settings → persistent, queryable memory
Those are exactly the same problems you’re solving with your XXXX ecosystem:
•     One universal light engine
•     Swappable shells
•     Re-usable geometry and workflows
Same mindset, different domain.
I don’t get to rewrite myself, but the people who built me do look at patterns like what you’re asking for. If you want to be very “MYNAME” about it: how would you spec it?
•     What would your ideal chat history search look like?
•     What’s the minimum feature set that would actually change how you work—versus just being “nice to have”?

That's some ****in' wild ****.

Bonus porn. Crude looks like the reciprocal; WTI light sweet.

Chart porn. Today was fun to watch. It looked like it was going to be another ugly day given what went on over night, depending on what you hear, read, and believe. Also as shown above, if you are a chart guy, we didn't close in a good place Friday. Broke to the downside of a significant support level. One might think the market tanks on Monday.

I can't use the S&P as above because they were not open until 9:30 today, but the this is the e-mini S&P futures. First chart shows the trading range we have been in since the big **** it took back in October of last year (left yellow arrow). The arrow pointing to the right shows how the market turned around today after the news about the war hit the airwaves at 7:05 according to the candles. 

 First a 9 month chart by day.

Watching the daily minute print really shows how crazy it was. The big green spike higher was at 7:05. Has now gave some back. Wild ****. I'm sure some had a really bad day.

On 3/22/2026 at 12:49 PM, Deleterious said:

This was from 295.  

 

Great shot. I've talked to the local golf pro from our one and only country club quite a few times. He comes in our little $hithole bar. We both agree most people, including most golfers, don't realize how good these guys really are. This is another example. There are very few people in the world that can hit that shot.

They are fricken machines.

6 hours ago, casimir said:

Grew up not far from there but never been to Mandy’s Steakhouse.  Shorty’s, their BBQ joint out by Franklin Park Mall, I’ve logged some time there.

Mancy's was the high end place. If I remember right, there was a Rudy's Hot Dog on Sylvania not far from Mancy's. I don't think it's there now. Quick and nice little place, good food. I go through there every once in a while, and if I get close I go to Ideal Hot Dog on Alexis. Best Chili Mac on the planet.

3 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

ATT air vs Starlink

 

 

Thanks Biff. That is an improvement. Not sure about the portability. Seems there are several versions.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

And of course it had to be the Raiders on the losing end of Harris' Immaculate Reception...

My closest Steeler story is we had the audacity to schedule our wedding the same day as the Steelers playoff game against Denver in 1978. Received a a good ribbing from the Western Pa contingency. All in fun. They timed the trip from the motel to the church, left at the end of the third quarter.

The wedding party was down the aisle and my wife was waiting with her father to start when the Pittsburgh crew came in and barely beat her. It's become part of family lore. My uncles and their wives basically became parents after ours passed.  

I was watching that game, and at that time a rabid fan. To this day I don't know if he caught it.

Adding. We used to do a home away Tiger game each summer. One trip was to Pittsburgh to see the Tigs vs. the Pirates. Incredible county to drive through, beautiful. The island the stadium (along with 3 rivers for football) is really nice. Great trip. If you get the chance, do it.

We were lucky it was a day into night game so it was light and dark. We stayed there on the island and walked everywhere. Shops, food, bars. Neat place.

Garmin got us lost on the trip there. Wasn't updated. Ended up in Paris, PA. Told the Boss, I told you I would take you to Paris. 23 miles on a little winding county road through the hills. We even went though a small panhandle of WVa. Read a sign leaning against a power pole; FAR WOOD

46 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it dipped to ~6250 on 'Tariff Day' (Aug 1 last year). Hit that and it would just about be down 10% = "a correction"

The low was 6212 that day. A soft level of support. There is some above that as well, around 6350ish. The charts say, and I'm guessing some are betting, the gap at 6028 gets closed as they all do. Giddy up!

The Steelers vs. Raider rivalry was one for the ages (best ever according to Jack). Nasty too. Tatum, the assassin. Lambert with no front teeth. Would have been early/mid 70s. Maybe around 2000 ish they had a halftime show on Monday Night with some of those guys getting honored for something. They interviewed LC Greenwood and asked how he thought he would to today (then). Not real good. Why? Can't beat anyone up. LOL!

Turkey Jones of the Browns pile drove Bradshaw into the field on his head. I thought he killed him. While Lambert said we should dresses on them. Too funny...

We need some chart porn. The weekend is upon us and the markets are closed. WTI closed around $98 and I will spare you the chart porn on that, but let's peek at the S&P. As documented above, the 6550 level was the main support going back to October of last year. The market has traded above that since.

Until today. The first chart is a 9 month by day showing how we just breached the support to the downside. Not a lot under that, and a gap to fill. The second chart is today's one minute action where it bounced around that level until around noon, an then took a poop. Now a close, on a Friday in a bad place if you believe in the technicals.

Today

21 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

VCU upset UNC, I have ties to neither school. My wife’s a UVa grad and I grew up near VaTech. Richmond’s just up the road so anyone who can cutdown the Carolina Blues is considered a friend. An oh yea, Duke almost got there’s handed to them. That would have made it a very good day

The MAC got smoked today and should tell us how bad they really are. It seems like it's all about money.

Of topic, but this is an investment thread. 🙂

6 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Western Pa roots. However back in the 50s and 60s the Stillers were much the Same ole Lions. 
I started following the team in the early 70s. Not quite a Yinzer, but they are among the teams I watch. 
 

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned that Old Man Rooney was from Coulter, Pa. Just a few miles from where my Pa ancestors had settled.

Growing up in the middle of Browns country here in Cornhole, Ohio made me a Steelers fan. My best friends were Browns fans - but we got through it. Their team of the 70s were great memories. Jack Lambert follows me on Twitter. How cool is that. He was my favorite guy. Went to Kent State. Football was different then.

Steeler fans are rabid and travel well.

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

I will stop short of saying the Zuck **** is an evil ****. I wouldn't trust anything out of that creeps mouth.

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

AI has made FB almost unusable other than direct communication with people you know/trust and established groups you are a part of.  You all know I love space and get fed so much crap that's just plain wrong.  Nothing harmful but a 7 paragraph AI written spiel that looks like it was written by AI 4 years ago while still learning.  Same extends to entertainment.   

 

And when someone dies or a tragedy happens you get AI photos related to that.  "Oh, a flood happened, here's Mick Jagger, dressed like Mick Jagger, helping out."  "Oh, Robert Duvall died, here's his widow holding his Emmy and Oscar on his couch crying".

My mom reads this stuff and will say "I didn't know Jason Benetti had cancer and was dying".  Why did she say that?  It was on her Ipad.

 

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Fortunately that turned out to be false

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/steelers-legend-mean-joe-greene-172806163.html

Wow, that's wild! I don't remember where I read that but it might have been FB. I should know better if that's where it was. You can' trust squat on that site.

Good news just the same. He is one of my all time favorites. 

Add Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Glad to hear it's still there. Our refinery group would do Mancy's when bonuses were paid.

They had huge baked potatoes with the great steak. French onion soup was good too. You didn't go hungry. It was known as a top shelf place back in the late 80s and 90s when I was close. Not sure about now, but there are still there.