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The Strait of Hormuz is being renamed the Strait of Schrödinger as it is both open and closed at the same time.

I seriously thought about killing that bird.

We tried everything to stop the blue heron--fishing wire to trip it, netting over the pond, etc. but it eventually got all the fish. Upset and frustrated I filled it in Blue Herons are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, so we couldn't harm it. We never had many frogs. But there did not seem to be an issue with the fish. Our Dachshund used to love to swim in the pond, we could not keep her out!

Here was our pond before the bastard heron devastated it.

We had a pond and loved it. We put a couple of goldfish in it and then were giving goldfish away as they multiplied. Frogs fond it. Our daughter won a gold fish at a carnival by throwing a ping pong ball into a jar. That fish was over 20 years old living in the pond when a blue heron found our pond.

Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince warns that any injury you inflict on a rival must be severe enough that you never have to fear their retaliation.

You completely missed Federer's point and I am not going to take the time, nor get in an argumentative discussion, to try to explain it to you.

Interesting little fact, of the 80% of his matches he won, Rodger Federer only won 54% of the points in those matches. He gave a great commencement address at Dartmouth. Here is just a bit of it,

I did the same for our daughter starting about 25 years ago. With apologies to the Chinese proverb about trees, The best time to buy BRK was 20 years ago and the second best time is today.

Brilliant!

I normally read when I am flying, but I check what movies are available just in case. They had one that I have been wanting to watch, 3 Idiots. I would give "3 idiots" 10 out of 10 stars. It is very good and some of the messages are the same as I teach in my Keys to Learning class.

Just finished First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva. I would recommend, maybe a 4.5 out of 5. Desilva is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth. I love when I learn a lot when I read a book.

Some old school punk tonight,

Thanks John! Time for a real Boilermaker!

@LC Thanks

I have been doing the same. (Actually ever since January 2010!) Currently I have written puts with strike prices ranging from $440 to $470 and expiration dates from May 1 to May 22.

I have had that happen and also got lucky each time. You must be using Think or swim?

Congratulations @Saluki!

Humans have 16 billion neurons in our cerebral cortex while chimpanzees have only 6 billion. We can thank the discovery of fire that led to cooking.

I think the announcement that BRK was repurchasing shares has already been forgotten. Except by us multi decade holders.

@longterminvestor I agree. BRK did not want to blindside any LT investors. I appreciate the announcement and any disadvantage to repurchasing shares by BRK will be a short blip, forgotten in a day or two. I see BRK's share repurchase as a long game.

How can the total amount of cash change? If someone buys shares that I sell to them then I have the cash.

LC, you haven't been through the desert on a horse with no name?

I had a fraternity brother who was on the tennis team. A few of us were staying on campus during the summer and we went out one night to the tennis courts. I don't think I ever even got my racket on any of his serves.