boilermaker75

I noticed one thing this week. I have been going to ATMs since they first existed. They have always spit out twentys. I went this past weekend and my $200 was given to me as four $50 bills! Not a higher price on a thing, but my first thought was $50s are the new $20s.

Wrote BRKB July 15 expiration, 270-strike puts for >$1.

It was a risk arbitrage play on my part. I believe BRKB had already started the acquisition process of BNI (actual ticker), or at least of a substantial amount of BNI stock. I started writing puts on Aug 13, 2007 at a strike price of $80. I continued till the deal was closed at strikes ranging from $75-$95,

No problem. There always has to be a patsy at the table!

I'm not sure about that, but I was writing puts on BNSF along with Warren. That was about the surest trade I have ever seen.

Saw America last night. Gerry Beckley's voice in concert is better than it sounds on those seventies albums.

When I was growing up in the sixties, everyone worked on cars. Not so much anymore. I mentioned before that I have seen a change in lab abilities in our undergraduates. I speculate it is because kids don't grow up tinkering anymore.

IQ is not a fixed trait, it can change. If someone takes an IQ test today and scores 100 they are average IQ. You give that same person an IQ test from 50 years ago they would score a 115. This is the Flynn effect discovered by James Flynn. So something (nutrition, education system, health system,?) over the last 50 years has significantly raised IQs in the US. Carol Dweck has shown that she can change children's performance on an IQ test by how she praises them before the test. Praise them on their work ethic and they score higher than if she praises them for their intelligence.

Although I think his passing is probably priced in, you are exactly right we won't know till it happens. But in hind sight it will be obvious to everyone!

We recently subscribed to MHz. Haven't gotten to the Scandinavian crime shows yet because we have been stuck on the French ones. Last two weeks we have been watching Cherif. If you get past the first couple episodes he tones done that shit-eating grin and he's a lot better. It is about an Arab police captain in Lyon. He knows all the old English crime/detective shows. So when something happens or he figures something out he will state "Columbo season 3 episode 5."

I got to eat lunch with Neil Armstrong. He was on the Dean's advisory committee when I was an Assistant Dean back around 1992. I sat directly across at one of those rectangular tables. I also got to meet and talk briefly with him a few other times. Extremely humble and gracious person. At a reception after an NFF dinner, I essentially sat alone at a table with Len Dawson and spoke with him for about an hour. I think everyone else there was too young to know who he was.

I don't like IPAs, but this is my wife's favorite and she is drinking one now.

Season 8 premieres Sunday night of one of my favorite shows, Endeavor. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/endeavour/#

On Friday, June 10, I bought them back and I wrote July 8 expiration 305-strikes for the 305 strikes and June 24 expiration 300-strikes for the 302.5-strikes.

I'd say it is a toss up, both are toxins. I have greatly cut down, but unfortunately I still indulge in both. Fructose is much worse than glucose. Glucose can go directly into your bloodstream and into your cells for fuel. Fructose has to be processed in your liver, which is not good. It will eventually cause nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. So both fructose and alcohol can destroy your liver. Even with blood glucose in the normal range, blood glucose levels on the high end of that normal range have been linked to brain shrinkage, reduced neuroplasticity and cognitive impairment Your five liters of blood contain one teaspoon of sugar. A 12-ounce coke contains 12 teaspoons of sugar, which is quickly dumped into your bloodstream! Your pancreas goes nuts to handle this and why eventually you will get type 2 and type 3 diabetes.

Your brain does use 20% of the oxygen you breathe and 20% of the glucose your burn! It is probably more for Charlie.

Wrote some AMZN 115-strike June 10 expiration puts for $0.32 per share.

I wrote June 10 expiration 302.5 and 305 puts yesterday.

I've always worn shorts during the summer, except when I was working in a lab. Of course I work at a university, which is a little different.

Neighbor had me over tonight for a couple of beers. He has learned well having beers at my house. He had some Three Floyds Robert the Bruce.

My wife's drink of choice is bourbon. Not surprising as she was born in KY. Her favorite is Town Branch, which I don't believe I have seen mentioned. I am having a hard time finding it for her. As you can see, she is down to one shot.

I never understood how we let it get this way. When I worked at INTC in the mid-seventies there had to be a couple of dozen chip manufacturers. It didn't get the name silicon valley for nothing. INTC, Fairchild, Siliconix, AMI, AMD, MOSTEK, MOS Technology, Intersil, National Semiconductor, Interdesign, IMI, MMI, Signetics, Zilog, etc.

Yep, I got my scar and I bet most millennials don't know what I am talking about.

@rkbabang I wrote some May 20th $60-strike puts for $0.90 per share. I had orders in for some June puts but they didn't execute.