Sunday Morning Coming Down -- Notes From All Over -- Part 1 -- September 12, 2021

North Dakota story on "front page" of The Wall Street Journal. Grandson restores the 1918 Ford Model T his grandfather assembled by hand a century ago.

• nearly forty years after he last saw his family's iconic car, Leon K. Humbel tracked it down in rural North Dakota;
• one cannot even imagine how poor my paternal grandparents were, trying to make a living in western South Dakota in the 1930s, and yet they were able to afford a used Model A
• I've never even asked where the nearest gasoline outlet might have been near where they were living

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Weekend Sports

NFL: i just turned on Hulu ... wow, it's NFL everywhere ... and the games don't start for another hour or so. 

College football: amazing how many games were airing yesterday. Stadiums full and no one wearing masks. 

NASCAR: Truex wins again. Saw bits and pieces of the race. 

Covid is so over: 

• stadiums:
• Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TX: 102,000
• Bryant Denny Stadium, AL: 101,000
• best Fauci could say: "Not a good idea." Didn't call any of these events "super-spread events."
• my hunch: Fauci is a reason for folks to switch networks when he comes on. And networks don't like folks switching networks.

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North Dakota

Beautiful Badlands: this site just seems to get better and better.

• the Missouri River hills at Watford City -- link here;
• Lake Sakakawea -- link here;
• 180 miles long
• 1,530 miles of public shoreline: the US Army Corps of Engineers owns the immediate shoreline, and makes it 100% publicly available
• largest manmade lake in North American
• ferries at ghost town Banks on the Tobacco Garden Creek eventually disappeared after a bridge across the river at Williston was built

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Energy

UK: EV chargers will be programmed to be turned off for ten hours each day, including from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The National Grid simply doesn't have the power.

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Technology

Smartwatches: the new classroom nuisance. Link to The Wall Street Journal.

• Did anyone see this coming? 
• Sometimes I wonder about Julie Jargon. LOL. Geico Rock nominee. I assume high school students figured this out five years ago. Or it was a slow news day. 
• Or maybe Julie wanted to take our minds off the judge's ruling on the App Store. If so, it didnt' work.

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Investing

KMI or ENB? Link at SeekingAlpha. Too close to call. The edge went to KMI. The obvious answer: own both. It came down to quibbling between a 6.66% and a 6.76% dividend rate. I kid you not. LOL.

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A "Northerner" Terrifies Londoners

Link here.

Americans may miss the humor. To work as an SNL skit, substitute: A Canadian is terrifying New Yorkers.