Two New Tags: 1920s And GildedAge -- March 3, 2024

Locator: 46665B.

Two new tags: 1920s; GildedAge. 

In five words or less:

By the way, check out that typeface. How, at a glance, can you tell that it's not Aptos? Easiest way, look at the one-story "g" and the "a."

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Change In Blogging Rules

My rule is to link "everything" in order to make it easier for readers (and myself) fact-check things -- particularly my typographical errors.   

But linking "everything" is tiresome, tedious, and takes up time. Starting today I will be very selective which screenshots from twitter that I link.

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From Twitter

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Dune: Part 2

 

Blogging Will Be Interrupted? The Basketball Game Is About To Begin; Sopia Is Coming Over; The PGA Is Getting Exciting; And Then NASCAR -- March 3, 2024

Locator: 46664CAITLIN.

This is incredible. The PGA goes into a rain delay -- right at noon, so we can switch to Fox to watch Caitlin. This is absolutely incredible.

My mother was a huge basketball fan and from Iowa. This would have made her day!

If you're not watching this game, you will be missing history in real time.

Ninety minutes of live television. Caitlin will be on screen eighty-nine of those minutes.

First rebound: Clark.

First score: Ohio. 

First score for Iowa: not Clark. A three-pointer and Iowa has the lead, but quickly loses the lead, 5 - 3.

Clark misses her first shot. Now tied, 5 - 5. 

Finally, Clark hits her first basket, a three-pointer. Needs 15 points to break Pete Maravich's record. It looks like Gabby Marshall is the "one" today. 

Clark on the bench. 

Amazing, all the three-pointers. 

Iowa blocked and fouled. Iowa up 13 - 7. 

Reminder: Iowa, #6; Ohio, #2.

Early 2nd quarter, 31 - 21.

Clark, nine points away.  Most recent shot did not count, traveling.

Clark, from downtown, six points away from record.

Four points away from record. From under the net.

Two points away from the record. From under the net. A record that has held for 54 years.

Seconds to go in first half.

Ohio coach gets a technical. Play -- the technical -- under review. Call held. Ohio player elbowed Caitlyn well after the play.  

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

Caitlin just made basketball history with 0.3 seconds to play. Then with 0.3 seconds, another two-pointer. 

50 - 39 at the half. Shot didn’t count. 48 - 39 at the half.

But the story is history.

I think the blogging on this game is over for me. 

With Hulu, one catch any number of sports events at one time. Amazing.

Final: 93 - 83. An all-time scoring record.  Absolutely blew away Ohio. It's on the Ohio coach.

The Bakken Vs Guyana -- Bakken Operators Ranked By "Excitement" -- March 3, 2024

Locator: 46663B.
Locator: 46663GUYANA.

Link here.

Earlier I posted this:

Locator: 46656GUYANA.

Link here. 

Guyana is tracked here.  

When I read these stories I almost get the feeling that folks forget how much oil the Bakken is producing.

So, I decided to do check. Came up with this.

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Bakken Operators

I've long lost the bubble on acreage in the Bakken and production by Bakken operators, for various reasons, but for the "excitement" factor, I think CLR has dropped from first to third place:

For "excitement," these are the top five:

• Chord Energy: Oasis + Whiting + Enerplus (Enerplus may be the best operator of the three but that would be a close call vs Oasis).
  
• Devon: Devon + WPX (reservation; huge).
  
• CLR: went private; history of "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." 
• Hess: could move higher if CVX successful in merger, but increasingly unlikely. Might CVX take another look at Hess even if CVX doesn't get Guyana?
• EOG, tied with others.
  

Flashback: Look At These Data Points From September 31, 2021 -- The Last Day Of The Government's Fiscal Year 2021

Locator: 46661FLASHBACK.

This is absolutely why I love to blog and why the blog is as eclectic as it is. Enjoy. 

Check out the GDP, PCE, inflation rate, interest rates, etc. 

Link here.

S&P, NASDAQ: higher for 3Q21

• could post 6th quarterly gain

Jobs (yawn):

• up 11,000 to 362,000 vs 330,000 expected
• GDP, revised, 2Q: 6.7% vs prior 6.6%
• 2Q21: pce price index: core inflation, 2Q: 6.1% vs prior estimate, 6.1%
  
• ten year treasury: 1.538%
  

California bacon:

• across the state, newspapers are reporting skyrocketing prices for bacon; none mention the new California law, Proposition 12, that will come into effect January 1, 2022; one link here;
• pork producers appeal to US Supreme Court; link here;
• how severe is the bill?
• Prop. 12 requires each sow whose piglets are raised for uncooked cuts of pork sold in California – about 9% of North American sows – to have a minimum of 24 square feet of space. Because Prop. 12 applies only to sows, not to their offspring who are raised for meat, it will apply to well less than 1% of the 90 million North American hogs.

Hit and run: South Dakota attorney general reaches confidential settlement with widow. Link here.

• deer wearing glasses; carrying flashlight;
• hooves in passenger seat
  

European energy:

• Sweden recently shut down two nuclear reactors, giving in to faux environmentalist;
• country now firing up oil power plant to provide electricity: one bbl/hour; link here;
• this is going on around the globe; helps explain the surge in price of oil;

Mu? all that hand-wringing earlier this year about the "mu variant"? Eradicated. 

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.

Investors, shale, link here, the usual suspects:

• XOM, CVX
• COP
• EOG
• PXD
• OXY
• CLR

Starbucks: increases dividend by about 10%; from 45 cents to 49 cents/share.

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.

Chamath: I happened to see this interview live;

• CNBC anchor dumbfounded;
• "February, 2021: the Whale, Chamath went on CNBC to urge people to never bet against Tesla, or sell t their shares." HODL.
• In the interview yesterday, he admitted he sold off his entire position in Tesla. 
• said he needed the cash to buy something better
  
• creep.

Word for the day: forecourt. That's what they call them in Britain.

Poster for the day: link here. NSFW.

Costs: the other day a reader asked why we were not seeing more drilling in the Bakken.

• one of many reasons: link here; but I don't think this is the big reason for the Bakken

Covid-19: vaccinations provide stronger protection than natural immunity. Hmmm. Link here. 

China: further restricts power use amid widening energy crisis. Link to Tsvetana Paraskova. 

Asian LNG: spot price rises to $200+ boe. Countries will now start burning oil at 1/3rd the cost. 

• Transitory. This, too, shall pass. 

Peak demand? LOL:

• rapid demand recovery hints at even higher oil prices; link to Tsvetana Paraskova;
• OPEC sees global oil demand growing until 2035; link to Tsvetana Paraskova;
  

Remember the name: Port of Fujairah. Link to Simon Watkins. 

Dividends: paying dividend today. 

• UNP: $1.07
• DVN: 38 cents
• Hess: 25 cents
• Ovintiv: 14 cents

Stagflation: link here, back to the "70's Show." 

• read the comments, give me a break: interest rates, today: 0%; interest rates in the 70s: 14%;

Sports Day -- March 3, 2024

Locator: 46660SPORTS.

Absolute don't forget: women's NCAA basketball, 12:00 p.m. CT, needs to be fact-checked, check your local listing, Caitlin Clark, Iowa vs some other team.

• Caitlin goes to the WNBA next season; will skip senior year

NASCAR: Las Vegas.

PGA. 

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Streaming

I honestly don't get it.

Sling TV is a $25 - $45 / monthly streaming internet / television / cable /whatever service, and yet, with my Amazon Fire Stick I get Sling TV and so much more for no additional cost. 

I honestly don't get it. Hulu and Amazon Fire Stick seems to get me everything I would ever want. My wife pays for Netflix which I never watch. I discontinues Apple TV+ some months ago. Lousy content, although it looks like Apple is raising the bar. We'll see.