Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Apple's Android Messaging Overhaul; Apple Card -- September 17, 2024

Locator: 48309AAPL.

Link here

Apple Card: This is a biggie. We'll know by the end of the year. Link here.

US Consumer Alive And Well -- Carl Q -- September 17, 2024

Locator: 48308ECON.

Link here. And a reminder: 3Q24 estimate GDP came in at a surprisingly strong 3.0%. Wow.



Personal Mileage -- 2011 Honda -- August 3, 2024

Locator: 48307HONDA.

Tag: mileage personal 

Actually it's a 2012 model but I bought it in December, 2011, in Williston, ND. I needed a car to get back to Boston. I had planned to take the train but local / regional floods had "washed out" Amtrak's rails. 

Thirty-six (36) days on a 3/4th tank of gas.

Nine cents / mile.

Look at the price of gasoline here in north Texas: $2.54!

AI -- Microsoft, BlackRock -- September 17, 2024

Locator: 48610AI.

Updates

January 20, 2026: posted this date, but it appears from September, 2024 --

Original Post  

With regard to AI, there are two camps:

  • it's all hype / hyped
  • it's the real deal

I'm in the second camp.

Link here.

Tag: Microsoft, MSFT, BlackRock, AI

COP To Acquire MRO --- July 1, 2024

Locator: 48609B.

This was posted elsewhere. Thought it important enough to post at this blog. 

Mineral owners in the Bakken may be receiving royalties from MRO.

MRO could remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of COP and and royalties still coming from MRO.

Or MRO could be absorbed by BR (a wholly-owned subsidiary of COP) or something entirely else.

We won't know for awhile.