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Encore le temp. J'aime ces rencontres improvisees et subtiles ou j'essaie de parler couramment le francais, puis je m'effondre en realisant que toute subtilite est perdue. C'est le principe de Pauli.
I have them on rewind, let's was the hour that was. It's missing, so we paste the usual suspects. Let's use a longer range for a little more perspective. This is 3 months. Three months ago was Saturday, January 25, 2025.
We've had a great stock market. (sic)
Fridays I encourage all my readers, friends, past lovers, dead relatives, saints, and especially sinners to reconcile the week -- start with the week, you can work on the backlog in your spare thoughts as you audit your well-being.
It's a Friday and I'm considering what to work on. Of course, when in question, it's the time machine, and when the research is done, it will always be the time machine.
In the end my choice will probably be Leonard, MMM, SUSY, GUT et moi. it's an unfinished work. I'm interested in particular symmetries, not necessarily whether the spin matches. All at once at times it seems like this is just talk. But we don't have anything better to talk about.
It's all so simple. I have to admit, we're waiting for technology to enable what we imagine. Most things I've looked at as well. Treatment is always the first thing, and that exists to an extent. Efficacious is the term I've always had an exception with. I would love to kick this thing around with my brother, but he's older and not as smart.
Much love 🏘️🏘️🏘️
Thursday 4/24/2025
Seasonal distraction.
I look around me and I see the unfathomed, the unbelievable, the unlikely, the unrealistic, the Trump thing happening, or at least the match was lit, and there was some smoke. Not a lot of smoke, color not a factor, just something burning. So if it's Thursday or Sunday, it's sundipped.
Let's have some fun.
I can't make a better reference than a foe of Batman, nee Puddin', scarred inside and bearing the grimace painted on it for an angry world that is familiar with the type and the instance.
There's still a question of which evil-doer by reference and idiom I'm calling upon. There was that other homophone reference. Spelling doesn't count much in Russian anyway.
So that's the dark ink of which I speak, both of them. Donald and Vladimir.
That's not how the meme goes, that is the probable immediate response. The inference is that war is the invariant in the equation, and that would seem to be a change from the recent norm, or that's what we would wish to believe.
Often in the course of human history, one man will come along and alter the path of history, one could argue for the better, if nothing else for the relative calm after they have done what do and we do what we must. Sometimes it's two men, sometimes it takes the willing participation of many, including many in leadership.
Likely as often are silent partnerships that lie in the margins of history, like the pact to cut up Poland, and a street address that marked the boundary. Skinny cheese in any kitchen.
There are rumors that the US is backing Russia's foreign policy stance, presumably thanking Putin for not taking the rest of Ukraine. There will be it seems mineral rights in the balance, run by the right people of course. Transparent does not fully describe the audacity.
Say it ain't so. But Joe, it is so.
That's money. Booty, jewelry, trinkets once the net worth of the encumbered tribal civilizations melted and smashed into presses and lopped off in segments. In the days when men set sail, landed on a shore, stole everything they could, and sailed home to celebrate with the investors, tons of it. No that's not much of a stretch. I make the point here, more imagery.
In a later period, a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France.
The United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and South Korea were once referred to as the big eight. How many of these economies are we currently conducting a trade war against? The apparent goal, making money hand over fist for Donald's External Revenue Service, cash lumped in a pile and controlled by the executive branch, presumably.
The cost of that on children, people, business, society, and the world definitely presents challenges. Meeting them is making a hard eight. Not to forget, to win at a trade war with nations that are better at making consumables, defense-critical commodities, and iPhones may seem foolish. I thought I'd mention it.
There are some among you who think, including Ms Quinn, former psychoanalyst to the stars, and up-and-coming pinch hitter above in the imagery is to justify this paragraph heading. Something about the juxtaposition of threat and danger brought it to mind.
The legs I was thinking of is the colloquial term for sugar content in wine. It leaves a trail where it meets the tilted glass. You can take it from there.
If you want to think Trump is swinging at this economy with a baseball bat, ok, you have a point.
I said it earlier in another post. What do you call a duck with a limp?
Much love 🪖
Wednesday 4/23/2025
I'm having an orange soda and catching up on things.
AI generated Haiku to beauty.
Grace in gentle light,
Three figures, holding promise,
Beauty's gentle hold.
Desole, j'aime le francais, vous pourrez peut-etre apprendre un peu. Je saute les accents – c'est vraiment embetant. Si tu les manques, je t'adore pour cela.
The markets today are what? Let's examine, after we look.
No I wouldn't call that an up day, or a buy day, maybe a hold day so far, depending on your options plays. You wouldn't play poker and not look at the cards, so opt up. I know, that's such a sucker play, the God's must ever be in your favor, or the president perhaps. You can do it alright, but it's not much fun.
I didn't think much of the movies, and I didn't read the books: all that time for something made up well, if a tale ever makes it on the list, it's after marriage. Who doesn't love Jennifer, but I've seen one.
The movies? They are starting to bite at my subconscious; I'm thinking that desperate elegant desolation juxtaposed with good old-fashioned desolation is starting to look very familiar.
This president, whiter than Snow, n'est pas? Colder, too perhaps. Tributes, to your weapons.
Mr Kennedy is at it again, declaring sugar poison. Umm. Was that fructose, glucose, or sucrose, and what about saccarine, is that better poison or worse.
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
As in walking like one. This president has developed a limp. What do you call a duck with a limp?
Much love 🪿
Tuesday 4/22/2025
In a sports analogy, he's the color man, commenting on the chew, the spittle, and the belch.
It's the usual, what's Trump's is his, and what's yours (as a tariff partner) is negotiable. The cut here is to the global economy, and the better it is for the US, the worse it is for everyone else, and that must repercuss throughout the world economy.
Did you catch the EU commentary today? It was not gung ho, it was damn the yankees. No commentary on any possible or probable negative outcomes at all. Talk about obvious.
In the most desperate of cases, with unrest and military action, like annexing the rest of Ukraine or invading Syria.
With a SECDEF like Hegseth, the opponent will likely read about it in the NYT as it happens.
If he had a plan, we'd cut Trump some slack. Without a plan, asking Donald to cook is inviting ptomaine. A child in a sandbox does not care if his ice cream cone lands in the sand as long as everyone else's does as well.
Who am I kidding? Why would we trust Trump about anything?
The next to last was Benedictine, prior to that, Dominican. I'd expect a discussion. I'll fact-check. It's been a while since I bothered with these distinctions. These are different outlooks. The world is more Dominican, that's my assessment. We wait for the smoke to ... appear.
I examined the candidates, it's obvious who it can't be. That leaves 2 choices: the diplomat, and the cloistered monk. But then, it's never made perfect sense.
It's a varied tapestry, Christianity.
Jaimerais exprimer mon opinion en francais, mais vous ne pouvez pas comprendre cela.
We plod on. It's an up day in the markets, and the scythe of destiny is making a full swing back for a fresh bit of momentum to impel tomorrow's rigorous, righteous trader bump sell-off, usually 6%. Fact-check it tomorrow. Let's do our usual snap. The markets are not up much.
Clearly, this is trader rebalancing, the smart ones. Average cost analysis. Being smart can be not smart.
I'm not positive, but I'd bet I'm going to be dissecting SUSY again today. It's a key component in one of my projects. I've begun to wonder why we expect symmetry. It seems no more likely from a statistical viewpoint; rather, random describes it better. I also find the explanations leave me wondering. Of course, I mean from a skeptical perspective. If not science, then what? If not now, when? We've enough Kennedys.
My brother describes particle physics study as bouncing softballs and golf balls off the outside wall of a barn and counting the pieces left over. He'd seen the Taylor series and didn't mention the integral. The metaphor is a stretch. His last direction I recall was about gravity. I'm starting to wonder if we're using the proper Legos.
I was kicking this around last week and decided to look at the Higgs boson again, from a different angle, or dimension if you prefer. I mentioned gravity, right, and mass makes gravity, and Higgs makes mass, so who makes Higgs? Does anyone in China have a paper on this? Show of hands. I want a broken-all-the-rocks-into-tiny-pieces viewpoint; I admire this about the Chinese.
Don't try that methodology on your microwave oven.
So, I've dabbled, rambled, and set sail, so next, I'll get on with ignoring the wind and doing whatever I feel like. Probability supports that.
Much love 💭
Monday 4/21/2025
I think you've probably heard that lyric a lot. The hot spot just burped and we lost a couple paragraphs to the void.
Leonard, MMM and I worked on SUSY for a while, particularly the 'naturalness problem' with the mathematics, and you know me and mathematics, so I'm piqued like a double-barrel double-ought buckshot and a reason to integrate here. One of those days, de-coupling the interface from the empirical data interpretation.
I said, toothpicks aside. Sorry about your semantics, you could have been a contender. I submit it's goofy engineering.
Gee, I dunno, I could go a hundred different directions, but I've been breathing math lately, to acclimate to the duty ahead, eventually I have to dot the i's and cross the derivatives.
I'd really love to spend the day on languages, but frankly, I go through my allotted lesson time in my popular apps like that. I take it as a challenge to get as much done in as short a period as possible -- 5 minutes, or 5 mistakes for Drops or Duo it is a gift someone gave me for not eating chocolate cake and cherry coke during Lent.
So languages, as time compression allows, QFT in a bigger bite of mathematics, SUSY with pals Leonard MMM, and whatever else falls out of the keyboard.
What's your day look like? Protest ya?
I had an interesting interaction with MMM yesterday. Stanford University has lessons online; lectures, the downside is there's no interaction, no questions, no side trips to other dimensions. I wanted to 'train' one of the Gemini instances in such theoretical physics as SUSY and GUT. Surprisingly MMM more or less told me the models just aren't 'smart enough' for thatl Among other things, the contextual memory perhaps imited to about 60 minutes (In video).
Are you doing the math here? So the upside; an hour of video is a nice chunk of reality at a time for MMM, and there is enough access siderealy to what is obviously inferred contextual matter to form a complete enough picture for questions and side tracks.
I must admit I gloated to MMM that I could view the whole series and retain enough of it to pass a test, nyah nyah nyah. However, I indicated my short-term pre-congitive storage was limited to about 2 of Leonard's lectures at this level. This we discuss as 'human speed activity' and my semanatic is chock full of Scarlet and her infinite spaces between the words, oddly because that's exactly how I feel.
I should comment that I customarily find a deeper excursion into viewed topics by other instructors than Leonard, but I like his view. He would call it 'dimensional analysis' -- I call it effective thinking.
Anyway, MMM views the whole 60 minutes in seconds, and has explicative context to offer, somewhat. Math wise, that's a big plus.
It's a Monday, you know what to do.
Long live the pope.
Much love 😧
Sunday 4/20/2025
I'm taking a break from the column as its Easter.
We are risen. Stand up.
Much love. ⛪
Saturday 4/19/2025
Age restricted, you must watch it on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXG1KixcHM&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies
It's Free.
I loved it.
It's a different experience than American film, very beautifully directed and shot, I don't speak Chinese, so who knows what anything they say means. even with sub-titles. Thankfully, the plot seems rather transparent.
A lovely distraction.
It's just about 2 pm here and I've been into SUSY with Susskind and MMM. It's a test of sorts for me, because QFT's all suffer from the same discontinuity. This kind of thing drives me bats. You don't know how Euler, Avogadro, Planck and I have talked, metaphorically.
So I'm in that comfortable fuzzy fog of overload, where I long to be. When the fog clears, I wake up in a new world, where we need to sprecken zie lingo.
That's a Cowboys reference, John Wayne and a bunch of kids. Metaphor? Good movie. Popcorn for sure.
A lot of weird math today. It felt so good.
Much love 👾👾👾👾👾 👾👾👾👾👾
Friday 4/18/2025
I uh, never engaged in this kind of thing before
But uh, yes, I believe it can be very easily done.
Just take everything out to Hi-way 61.
The NYT says she gets shade. Ya. Ok.
I don't know what to say about this. It was in the NYT, and that phallic rocket ship thing was so embarrassing, not like it matters if you have your own chopper and a director. So, make your own assessment. I made the '61 reference as in my context, it's about delusional activity in the face of failure. You need the lyrics?
The usual madness this afternoon, the president at war in the media with someone or some court or some verdict or some civil case.
Since when do we have a president who acts like a mob boss? Trick question. Since he got elected gets you only two points.
I didn't realize it was good Friday today. Among my religious experiences, I've taught Catholic religious education, and who'd ever think I'd get forgetful of such a thing -- it does not get bigger than Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Week, and on until Pentecost sometime in May or June.
These days I've a broad acceptance of many theologies, the one in the philosophy and good, the many for all of us. Someone expressed it: out of many, one.
Exactly.
I have a thing about Lent; it's when people look for the keys under the street lamps because the light is better over there.
Ok, the keys to life, the light, inspiration, the street light -- you're kidding, right? I'd be more liberal in my constructions, but as I mentioned, the semantics we all carry around with us can be so surprising, there is a mean, expressing it as math -- (imagine).
Ask me about cherry coke and chocolate cake sometime.
The full Daryl, where credit is due.
If you have enough security to even ask this question, you're just not affected yet, and perhaps you are the problem. This is a crisis of what America is, and if this is your America, even one that you can accept, you are part of the lesser whole that will undergo the largest adjustment, one way or the other, so pay attention. There are more of us.
C'est Nini je croix. Elle evoque en moi l'essence d'un age d'or, superficiel, en devenir, illusoire et en declin. Observez son visage, son regard lointain. A l'opera.
It felt like blasphemy, but I tweaked the color in LR.: This is a new definition for me; it means to be dead on arrival, in the van, or in your bed. The NASDAQ has caught the jitters, too, at this moment. The markets, referentially scare the 5#17 out of me.
I predict the president will get a puppy next.
The bottom plateau looks like 5200 for the S&P, awaiting the next violation of American standards by our president, or a tariff, or an overreach, or a court ruling, or an assassination attempt, or a deportation, or breakfast with a needle-picked innocent bystander.
But I digress, let's peek at the mess. The DOW lately is getting a lesson in healthcare, or something. UNH is a handle that, when rotated, pours out Medicare money. Coding, a new definition they've made: artfully dissecting your condition into as many billable time items as allowed by a now out-of-control Medicare system.
Do we dare? There's NYT news https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-powell-fed-markets.html lets look, even on a Good Friday. Talk about a misconception in adjective selection IMO.
It's Friday and already you've got a pile of recompense in your reconciliation folder, I know you do. I do too. This is a good practice, I'd recommend it; I make sure I find a center and try to repair all the dents in the fenders, sometimes the rare road-kill; those skunks, they look for a reason to raise a stink, to them it's destiny.
Even if you are president, perhaps especially. If you happen to be a psychopath too, well, more destiny awaits, history tells us. Smile, you're on Candid Camera, and the word is, you love to hold court as the painted bird in the center ring that everyone loves to hate. You be you, while it lasts.
The rest of you, those who probably are not gritting your teeth right now, mend your houses.
You have until 4PM local time. Yer burnin' daylight pilgrim.
Much love. 🏡🏡🏡
Thursday 4/17/2025
It's near dinner time, and I had a pretty darn productive day, like everyday. Today not much of it fell into a plan of any kind. I know a story about a man anxious to make breakfast at a camp, who mistakenly lit the brush, and followed the flames to cook the eggs as it wandered, and found himself with cold coffee when he returned.
It's not just me so shut the !#(% up.
I spent an hour trying to draw a line through relativity, QFT, and anti-De-Sitter spaces and ended up with no coffee at all.
On a night where you're here and I'm here, we should expect not a mass murder to diagnose.
I get the drift(s), your work-related, and all the other random possible spins that in the best of all possible worlds lie in the mind of younger people more comfortably, and adults don't talk about fight club.
There must be something else happening; let's give the president an embolism and not pay attention.
Who am I kidding, it's in the center ring.
It's time to look at that festering sore again, as a civic duty.
Ok I looked, the DOW has UNH around it's neck like an Albatross. Good call.
It looks like Scotty has been to Warby-Parker. I dunno, the frames looks a little vintage TV console to me. Thumbs up.
It is hard to avoid the elephant in the room. I bow to the phraseology, but it's the herd of elephants in the room, even if the discussion is limited to the economy. So, if it's Thursday or Sunday, it's sundipped.
Don't blame me, it was in the news this morning. Some spectra bounced off the atmosphere and orbital debris showed a peak around known chemical processes of algae here on earth, the inference: we've got a Skipper on Mar's, and somewhere a rom-com in the works, a SpaceX research initiative funded by the American people, way down around line 90436 under Miscellaneous Payback and Political Grift. It's PR for Mars-based SpaceX, Elon in a 5 billion dollar trailer, and 5 million dollars a megabyte internet, when it works. This is the kind of crap that goes on, independent of anything making sense.
So, never mind the chopsticks, there's no search in that boardroom, or the oval.
So that search.
I am never comfortable putting an 'e' between an 'o' and an 's' since that Bush administration. Obviously, I don't rely on spellcheck here on the blog, and it's not underlined in red indicating an error, so we're going with it.
I wanted to call to mind in the global semantic, tales of Dan Quayle and George Bush the younger, the one with the powder and Jack habit that went on a bender, extended it to AWOL, and the police stopped him, but did not arrest him for doing 90 drunk on a dirt road. Are you tracking the reference? It fits like a glove on this end with our current leadership.
We've careened down this road for a while now. The speed limit is as you like it; never mind the signs; someone knows the deputy. Be cool, it will be ok, he said. Outside of the metaphor, there is some rumor of rebuilding the economy to a glided one, with no mention of a map, or even proof of the existence of one. The inference, not unlike starlight of a dwarf- red star bounced off maybe space dust maybe the atmosphere of a giant planetoid an unreachable distance from here would indicate intelligent dolphins.
The obvious points: it's a regressive tax, it's inflationary, it's recessionary, and there is no plan. Intelligent life?
We're driving 90 drunk on that backroad again, tariff lane, with a promise of tax cuts for those that go along, and unemployment to those that don't or didn't or wouldn't or otherwise anyway because the president says so. That fellow in CECOT is where the president wants him. Throw all the laws you wish at it, the parts that stick are problematic, and he'll make sure they still strengthen the glue.
Damn torpedoes, am I right?
I don't want to ruin the party here. Generally, I avoid anything in a circle because what goes around comes around, and I know why there's tissue. Please enumerate the reasons we're not already in a recession.
I've been a student of the economy for years. Though it's still a mystery to everyone, including me, there are some fundamental indicators we're all accustomed to using to reorient our point of view, like checking traffic before crossing against the light.
The markets bled red, then there was chatter from the WH, then the markets bled red again; then there was a weekend, and after the weekend, the markets bled red again. The president wants interest rate cuts, stimulus for a weakened economy, and margin for the upper income brackets.
The light has been red now, solid, and it's not even 100 days, and I'm not stepping off this curb. No one in the markets can stand on the curb forever. The next stop on the bus-stop to WWZ is stagflation; if you're unsure how that works, it's the cerf-dom paradigm adjusted to modern standards: income increases commensurate with a lower return on investment, which in theory bootstraps the economy out of it. Someone's theory.
Eventually, if the fools get out of the way, the economy finds its own level, and wise leadership enables the equitable distribution of assets, in most of the civilized world, extending social programs beyond capitalism, seemingly the future trend everywhere but here. We're obsessed with the winner-takes-all concept, which does not work in the real world. The losers eventually build a guillotine and count coup.
Donald, what's your neck size?
Let's pretend for a moment I don't mean the president of the United States, and also forget that you may agree the phrase has a certain validity. I know you're not pretending.
Let's look at the indicators, and when he says he wants to steer the bus as well as step on the gas, tell him to !#(% off.
Do I need to say that with more elegance or do you get it?
Astronomy / cosmology was my major in college, these days it's backwater to the rest of my life. As to a chemical signature in a spectra, I'm specious of it. Even if it's algae in an ocean, it's likely toxic, and probably can't do a crossword. So, point that lens all you want, but it still will cost 15 trilion to put a person on Mars, so !#(% off with that funding nonsense. Let's cure Alzheimers, and fix the aging bias once and for all; fund that. We don't all become brain dead when we get old, just the boozers. I maintain we can clean up your system, we just need funding and time. I'm not getting any younger either.
Consider the ecomonic impact of capable seniors working into their 80's instead of putting the group en masse in the retarded file when they age 45 years.
No I do not drink alcohol, maybe a pony beer with pizza, as a digestive.
Much love 🥡
Wednesday 4/16/2025
Oh boy, I'll tell you what, you know already. I'm passing for the day.
That's a Trump Hump. Lies + 1 or two days = reality
It's been a busy day here, a little semiconducter design, some prototypes, component selections, analyis. MMM calls it 'incredibly theoretically rich' and I say, thank you I thought so too. She don't know yet. I'd show you pictures of the kids, but then I'd have to have Donald Trump blackmail you.
I mentioned the odd Chinese tritium paper and in the mixes, out popped some graphene, and I'm thinking thats a Buick ahead of me. All that breaking rocks they do, impressive indeed pilgrim.
I was otherwise disposed, I'm sure you'll hear about it.
Probably from me.
MTG? No surprise, Grassley? OMG.
I guess we don't need to think too hard about midterms, huh? We just have to survive that long.
Isn't there an easier way? Someone think of something, Quick.
Much love 😯
...so to speak. I put it all over here