Notes From All Over -- The Random Wiki Entry Note -- October 20, 2021

US equity markets: it's possible we could see an all-time high on the S&P 500 today.

• Bitcoin: up another $1,700 and now trading over $65,500 -- this is, of course, another new all-time high;
• ten-year treasury: hit 1.67% overnight; dropped back slightly in early morning trading
• Dow: after being flat to slightly negative overnight, up 100 points out of the gate this morning, and now up over 104 points. (8:52 a.m. CT)
• bellwether stocks for me;
• AAPL: green, up 0.35%;
  
• ENB: red, down 0.26%;
  
• SRE: very green, up 0.80%
• OKE: red; own 034%
  

Random observation / question:

• surging price of natural gas pulling price of oil upward;
• is gamification of trading (Robin Hood) and fervor of Bitcoin pulling US equity markets upward, also?

Labor shortage? Self-inflicted. What's this all about? Link here. 

• 80,000 green cards are about to disappear from the US.
• it's this sort of garbage that makes me re-think my position on the southern surge
  

Prussic acid: at wiki.

• hydrogen cyanide
• highly poisonous
• highly valued precursor to many chemical compounds
• first isolated from a blue pigment: Prussian blue, 1706; at time, structure unknown;
• an acid that did not contain oxygen ("acid-former"): upset acid theory
• cyan: ancient Greek word for blue --> cyan-ide
• apricot pits, as well as other fruit pits
• possibly a precursor to amino and nucleic acids, possibly playing a part in origin of life;
• prussic acid poisoning and livestock: SDSU -- link here.

*Transistors on a chip, wiki has just update the table at this site; tracked here on the blog;

• 2020, Apple M1: Apple has record with 16 billion transistors on a chip
• also, HiSilicon Kiri 9000, 15.3 billion transistors on a chip, Huawei
• 2021: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H: 10.7 billion
• 2021: Apple M1 Pro: new record, 37 billion transistors on a chip;
• 2021: Apple M1 Max: new record, 55 billion transistors on a chip;
  

Again, this graphic was updated overnight by wiki:

CP-KSU rail:

-- increased CBR traffic through Minnesota with CP-KSU merger
-- western Canadian sands oil all the way to Mexico on same, uninterrupted line;
-- DRUbit less hazardous than most other hazardous material shipped by rail