Flocking To Texas -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48226ARCHIVES. 

Rambling while watching the NY Mets beating the NY Yankees (again, twice in two consecutive evenings). Holy mackerel! If you are a Mets fan, you're loving this. Top of the eighth, one out, and three-run homer making it 11 - 2. Still in the eighth inning, a sacrificial fly makes it 12 -2. The inning, mercilessly for the Yankees, finally comes to an end.

Apple: several times during the game, the announcer mentioned that the players and coaches go back to their iPads to review replays -- Apple iPads specifically mentioned. 

Now this, from MacRumors:

Flocking to Texas, link here. 

A reader sent me this without comment: something suggests to me that Jonathan Haidt has a dysfunctional family and he wants to blame it on the iPhone. I don't buy it.

Not sure why this was "breaking news." It's been scheduled for several days. I don't understand why Biden only spoke from the Oval Office on four occasions.

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Duped

Link here. 

More and more it's looking like Vance was absolutely the wrong choice. Link here.

Top of the list on Kamala Harris' short list: a US Senator from Arizona. And that guy can take on both Trump and Vance. 

New York Times, link here. How does one say Vance was the wrong choice without saying Vance was the wrong choice. Meanwhile, all of a sudden Trump's candidacy is looking old (haven't we seen this twice before?) and all of a sudden Trump looks like he may have Bidenitis.

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Indian Territory

Indian Territory --> Oklahoma.

It's amazing North Dakota, South Dakota, or major pieces of each state didn't become "another" Oklahoma. See chapter three, Prairie Man: The Struggle Between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin, Norman E. Matteoni, c. 2015.

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Word of the Day: Hierophant

Link here.

Greek priesthood.

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Duolingo -- Spanish

I'm thinking of reading Man of La Mancha in Spanish.

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"Combined Age"

148 years of age.

Photo undated. Taken this year or last year. I forget. But that was a "new" shirt in 2023.

Bruce's haircut by Sophia, age 10. I've not had a haircut in a barbershop since February, 2020. All haircuts since the Covid lockdown by Sophia.

Crude Oil In Storage Dropping; Gasoline Demand Up; And, Price Of Oil Dropping -- Biden Makes Formal Announcement From Oval Office -- Won't Run For President -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48225B. 

EIA weekly petroleum report, link here:

• crude oil in storage: 5% below five-year average
• refiners: 91.6%.
• jet fuel supplied: up 3.8% compared with same four-week period last year;

Gasoline demand, link here:

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $77.38.

Active rigs: 39.

Five new permits, #40955 - #40959, inclusive;

• Operators: Grayson Mill (4); CLR
• Fields: Sixmile (Williams); Cabernet (Dunn)
• Comments:
• CLR has a permit for a Rutledge well, SESE 11-144-97; 
• to be sited 325 FSL and 1189FEL;
• Grayson Mill has permits for four Grand National wells, NWSE 34-153-103, 
• to be sited 388 FWL and at 1554 FSL, 1524 FSL, 1464 FSL, and 1434 FSL.

Six permits renewed:

• BR: three Kirklandfill permits and three Morganfill permits; Pershing oil field;

Three producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 30263, 551, Slawson, Bazooka 1 SLH,
• 38161, 0, Lone Beaver 6-1-17MBH,
• 39299, 987, Minx Federal 1 SLH,

Electricity -- AI -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48224ELECTRICITY.

Demand, Economic Times, clickbait as determined by number of ads, but some nice data points. For the archives. Not a recommended article.

American electricity, search today:

SRE, today:

Dividend history:

This is not an investment recommendation. This is for the archives.

Re-Posting: Link To IEEFA Regarding The LNG Pause -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48223NG.

Link here. NG-LNG is now tracked here, periodically.

This reads like an op-ed which I assume it is, but there's a lot of interesting data points for the archives.

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Headlines 

Grinnell -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48222B.

After Sophia's family returned from a trip to Montana, specifically Glacier National Park, the name "Grinnell" popped up often. 

So, in the order in which I searched (ChatGPT would have been faster, but not as much fun). 

A generic google search resulted in this:

And, then, of course, the rest was easy. Next:

And, then, wiki:

But this was most entertaining. Look at the search and then looked what popped up as the first hit! Whoo-hoo!

From 2014! Wow! What a hoot!

I don't know if Grinnell ever made it to North Dakota but with his close friendship with Teddy Roosevelt my hunch is, that if he didn't, he still knew a lot about North Dakota. But to have a geographic location in North Dakota named after him, certainly suggests he was there.

The Pawnee people: Central Plains Indian tribe historically associated with Nebraska and northern Kansas. Language: Caddoan family.  

In Memoriam, from The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology.

This does not say Grinnell actually returned to North Dakota, but it's hard to believe that he did not:

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One Of My Large-Leave Plants

Update: a new leaf has just unfurled. 

A couple of days ago:

Today: