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Geaux Tigers!
Finally 1-0 to start the season.
With Texas looking like -redacted- and Bama looking even worse, I'm so hopeful this year!
Random thing.
Today I pulled out an old SmartMedia flash memory card that I had bought way back, maybe 2001 or so. This had last been written to in 2010.
It reads just fine. RTF documents, XLS files, even an MDB and it all works fine.
I guess the earlier lower-capacity stuff was more data-durable than later products. I have some name-brand USB drives that are much newer that start getting errors within just a few years of writing to them.
How good a comparison is it? Writing daily vs writing once every two decades might not compare all that well.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised to find that you are right about that. More and more memory is being packed into the same space. That can only be done by shrinking the components. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they become less durable as they get smaller.
For the last few weeks it seems like every weekday (including yesterday, Labor Day) at 8:32 AM I hear a steam train's whistle.
I'm not far from where the main tracks cut diagonally through the community, but I can't see them from home. I need to get over to the main crossing early one day soon. It'll be interesting to see whether PM 1225 is making test runs or what.
It doesn't seem to be passing through. Perhaps it is just making runs out from where it "lives" to about this point and then reversing home.
There have been a few terrific restorations taking place. One of the largest engines visited here...and I missed it. It's certainly worth having a look.
I've ridden the Durango-Silverton a couple times. Those are steam trains. They ran on coal when I saw them, but they've now converted over to oil or diesel...after setting the valley on fire. Coal throws sparks. Not all that many, but even one is enough in a tinderbox. Coal was a bit miserable when riding the train, too, as you'd get ash in your eyes unless you wore eye protection or were towards the back of the train.
I'm no stock trader, and at this late age I tend to be conservative about where my money perches.
But I've noticed that when interest rates rose to modest levels by historical standards, a lot of people diversified into cash for more stability.
While a market bubble seems to have been puffed up quite a bit lately, instead of cash moving back for a fast buck... a lot seems to have moved the other way into commodities and even gold and silver.
Both gold and silver seem to be breaking out to the upside again right now. That seems to be driven by geopolitics, central banks, de-dollarization, etc.
But the upward climb doesn't seem to be pulling in the retail buyers and "stackers" who instead have been selling off holdings to turn a buck. Part of this is probably foolishly trying to treat metals as investments rather than wealth stores and hedges against shrinking currencies. But a lot might also be people who shouldn't have been in this market now needing to cash out because they are struggling with bills.
I get the idea that not a lot of individuals own much silver, and fewer own much gold. If we set aside basic coin collectors and those who've received gifts of mint sets and the like, there must be a very small population of these "retail" owners of metals.
So is it mostly preppers and nutjobs? Stacking silver as an alternative to Star Wars dolls?
Or are there smarter folks among their numbers, quietly sticking another ounce of gold into a sock every so many months?
It's all pretty novel to me. Nothing I grew up with, and as far as I know nobody I've met has been a gold bug.
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Totally agree, and I know one of them. He would fit into the "nutjob" category. He's a good guy, but he's been bitten bad by the gold bug for as long as I've known him. He's even gone on vacations centered around panning for gold. He's willing to talk it up to anybody for any reason, though he's not pushy about it. It's just his hedge against...well, pretty much everything. I think he's the type of person you are describing. There's no prepper in him, it's just something of an obsessive focus on metals, especially gold.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Totally disagree. I didn’t read anything past your first two words.
Weird.
Which two words? Is "I'm" counted as one word or two? If it's two, then it's reasonable not to agree with that. If it's only one, then the first two words are "I'm no". It's hard not to agree with that.
And that's even weirder.
I have three days to recover from my last trip before I go on my next trip. It will be colder.
Seems likely.
I think he disagree with your first two words. "totally agree"Quote:
Which two words? Is "I'm" counted as one word or two? If it's two, then it's reasonable not to agree with that. If it's only one, then the first two words are "I'm no". It's hard not to agree with that