Ridicu'list' for the week

Biden in surprise visit to Iraq - Was he surprised that he was in Iraq? Or was it Eyeraaak? Man - all he was trying to do was to visit his nana in New Hampshire and the airforce probably got the flight plan mixed up. Or maybe he kept saying Turkey and they decided to fly to Turkey but got their flight plans mixed up and landed in what was once Iraq.

Market Multiples out of whack - this in connection with the equities market. Frankly to me the whole idea of a P/E is out of whack. How can one company be judged to be a better or higher price multiple than another? Who decides? Then top it off with accounting policies that are best left to the one that interpreted them all manners of cooking of the books is possible leaving the P/E a useless barometer to gage the health of any enterprise. Book Value is the best of the worst metrics to tell if something is going to be 'going concern' or not.
In fact 'going concern' itself sounds ominous. Where is it going? Under? What is the concern exactly?

Norway murder suspect insane - Are we suspecting he is insane or is the once suspect and now arrested person truly deemed insane? Did it take a lot of people and this much time to determine he is insane?
This is insane no?

After Big Black Friday can shoppers keep it up? This one is a loaded question and invokes the worry about what was truly going on during the busy shopping period. I had heard about pepper sprays used for additional fun but what is this about keeping it up I say?

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Charges attract

It is said that opposites attract meaning people with contrary viewpoint sometimes find chemistry to be together. But I'm referring to a modern twist where people are merely attracted towards a common place because their uber communication device aka smart phone is about to die. The charging station. From airports to hotel lobbies or even bathrooms, when in need they are attracted to this power outlet like moths to a flame or a junkie to a needle. A whole new business of supplying these hyper connected folks is now born whose lifesaver product is a backup charge. Asian tourists perpetually carry a phone sized battery pack stuck to their latest Apple phone updating their status to folks in Hong Kong or Shanghai or Bangalore as they pose for selfies with weird facial expressions and fingers pointed out in a letter V. Vain? PS: I dis'charged' my blogger duties making this insightful observation as my phone is about to breathe it's last and my flight gets call...

Costa Rica

Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...

Veni Vidi and Videod

Julius Ceasar is credited with a Latin phrase that reads - Veni, Vidi, Vici as in he came, he saw and he conquered. The summer vacation for the child meant we needed to do what we do as an annual event. Go see a new place. Italy won the draw this year. So we went for a couple weeks. To check out the land of fairy tales, of great warriors and amazing inventions; birthplace of Christianity and its current CEO, land of Romeo and Juliet, a land in many ways similar to our home state of California. In terms of its geography and populations and their respective shapes CA resembles Italy a lot. Both have a grand coastline, they both have multi cultural groups of people residing in its lands and mountains, both have northern edges covered by snow covered high mountain ranges that are formed of volcanic and tectonic activity over millenia. What we do not have in the Golden State is the renaissance, the art, the history. It was a particular interest of our d...

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