"Digger" With Tom Cruise And VistaVision -- Hollywood Is All Abuzz -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51752MMF.

Page views go over 108 million.  

Tag: MMF MMFs money market funds 

MMF sets new record: link here.  

The Movie Page

The new movie, Digger, with Tom Cruise was shot on VistaVision. 

Link here. 

Again, one can see something in passing and get a whole news story out of it. Chatbot replies are not copyrighted.  

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The Elon Musk Page

One might want to watch this to put into perspective what Elon Musk has accomplished and is accomplishing. Truly incredible.

X: 560 million users of X worldwide; Blue Sky: 3 million users. Keep that in mind. Starlink: 97% of all satellite internet usage. 

The renaissance: digital media, AI, EVs, satellites, AI, software due to one person. VDH did not mention robots. He created the EV market. The EV market did not exist before Elon Musk.

Elon Musk: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas edison, and ford

Link here.  

Daily Activity Report -- Two New Permits; Two DUCs Reported As Completed -- Thursday, September 17, 2026

Locator: 51751B.

Uinta: California Resources has sold Uinta basin assets for about $90M. 

The operation is a small part of the business–2.5% of oil production and 8% of natural gas production in 2Q. 

The CEO last month told analysts “it’s hard to see allocating a lot of dollars back into the Uinta” with a focus on building its California network. Tracked here to some extent but not updated in a long time.

Chart of the day: 

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Back to the Bakken 

WTI: $101.30.

Active rigs: 33.

Two new permits --

• 43310, KODA Resources, Amber 1704-7BH, SEE 17-160-103, Fertile Valley;
• 43311, CLR, Peterson 10-29HSL, NENW 21-156-99, East Fork;

Two producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 41847, 1,075, BR, Rolla 6F, McKenzie County;
• 42446, 572, Petro-Hunt, Hoiby 158-94-4C-3-4H, Mountrail County.

ICYMI: Lots Of Work Left To Do In The Bakken -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51750B.

Page views: just went of the 107 million threshold -- 107,276,421. Current run rate, 2 million page views / 24 hours. 

Lots of work left in the Bakken, McKenzie County, about 15 miles south of Watford City; about 45 miles east of US-85. Out in the middle of nowhere? God's country.

BRKB On A Huge Day For The Market -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51749BRKB.

Updates

September 18, 2026: this explains BRK's move yesterday. Today, it is announced that Warren Buffett has stepped down from Berkshire Hathaway. The stock, BRKB, dropped $10 / share yesterday; today, in pre-market trading, appears to have stabilized. If the US equity market ends green today, one would expect the same for BRK, once this news is absorbed.

September 17, 2026: Samsung fans not impressed. Samsung fans miss the point; it appears the writer of this article also missed the point. Link here.

For Apple fans, that’s just the way of the world. While Samsung routinely pipes up around Apple’s phone releases, iPhone users don’t even know when Samsung Galaxy releases occur, Richard Bruckner, a comedian and iPhone 17 Pro owner, posited in a viral social-media post.

Original Post 

Safe haven: for elderly mom-and-pop retail investors it seems that AAPL has become the "safe haven" for investing, taking that title from BRK-B. See disclaimer. 

On a huge day for the market: 

BRK-B: 

AAPL: 

And SNOW:

AMD: today, AMD and Intel are surging. AMD is particularly impressive. In 1984: at age 20, Jensen Huang begins his career at AMD. Stays there for two years. Today's CEOs of Nvidia and AMD are first cousins once removed (first cousins one generation apart). 

Paramount Pictures Planning To Leave California? Eyeing Nashville, Tennessee -- With Apologies To Horace Greeley -- Go East, Young Man -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51748JED.

Link here. 

Are the Jed Clambett heirs moving back to their roots? 

Jed Clampett and his family moved from the Ozark Mountains, a region that mostly covers southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. That's reasonably close to Nashville, TN. 

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A Musical Interlude

Nothing takes the place of you.

Link here. 

Remember The Duck Death In A CLR Oil Pad Waste Pond? Are Things About To Change? September 17, 2026

Locator: 51747DUCKS.

See this link.  

Now this: Doug Burgum's about to get this changed -- this will help both the oil industry and the wind and solar industry. I have mixed feelings about this. Much could be said and The New York Times has lot to say about it. See link: 

In what would be a seismic shift, the Trump administration is quietly moving to strip a core protection of the Endangered Species Act, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.

Under a new interpretation of the law’s language outlined in the memo, the accidental killing or injury of an animal would no longer be considered illegal; only actions specifically intending to target an animal would.

The change would be transformative because, in the United States, the killing of endangered animals almost always happens incidentally, in the course of economic activity. Until now, industries and individuals could be held accountable for those foreseeable deaths and, as a result, they have been incentivized to avoid them.

At the center of the change is what it means to “take” an endangered animal, something that has long been prohibited under the act.

And then article goes on to discuss bats and whales. And then I quit reading. I have no dog in this fight; simply a spectator.

Chatbots -- Truly Incredible -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51746CHATBOT.
Locator: 51746SUBARU.

My interaction with a chatbot yesterday: link here. At the link -- it's long -- be sure to scroll to the top to get the initial query.

Reminder: The Blog's Disclaimer -- September 17, 2026

Locator: 51745DISCLAIMER.

Apple: exploring a return to the server market with an AI system built around its own M series chips and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion. Wow. If this pans out, this takes Apple to an entirely new level. Apple's market cap: $4.85 trillion and should go higher today based on pre-market trading.

Apple is reportedly developing enterprise-grade artificial intelligence servers powered by its upcoming M8 Ultra chips.  I knew we were up to M6 but what happened to M7? This is not trivial:

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Disclaimer

Briefly: 

I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken and I am often well out front of my headlights. I am often appropriately accused of hyperbole when it comes to the Bakken.

I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market.

I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.

See disclaimer. This is not an investment site. 

Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment, financial, job, career, travel, or relationship decisions based on what you read here or think you may have read here. All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If something appears wrong, it probably is. Feel free to fact check everything.

If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them. 

Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, US economy, and the US market.

I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple. 

And now, Nvidia, also. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Nvidia. Nvidia is a metonym for AI and/or the sixth industrial revolution. 

I've now added Broadcom to the disclaimer. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Broadcom. Now, I've added Amazon. And QCOM.

Longer version here.