A young lady lawyer walked into my office yesterday with a half-inch gash on her forehead. She had tripped on an airport moving walkway. She had flown from Singapore to New York. A long flight. She was tired.
Be wary of stairs and moving sidewalks. Hold onto stairway handrails.
Be wary of bathrooms.
Be wary of unfamiliar places.
Sorry to sound like a cracked record.
Chinese Solar Maker Plunges, Losing Nearly $19 Billion in 24 Minutes. Read all about it. Click here.
Your airbag can kill you. My friend, the car expert, emails me:
There are 11 brands of car that have Takata air bags. If I had a car of any one of these brands, I would:
1. Go to the Government website that allows me to enter my VIN number.
2. If the VIN of my car is on the recall list, I would immediately disable its air bag system.
3. The simplest way to do this is to pull any and all fuses related to the air bag system. If I couldn’t myself figure out which one(s) these are, I would get someone who knows to help me.
4. Pulling the fuses will trigger a fault light in the car’s instrument panel, that will go out when the system is fixed under the recall. Put the fuses in for your annual inspection.
The risk of accident or death from operation of the faulty air bag system exceeds the risk of same from being in an accident without the air bag.
In short, wear your seat belts.
Don’t buy from Abes of Maine. I mentioned them yesterday in my list of online camera retailers. I shouldn’t have.
Money is the Achilles Heel of startups. Recently I’ve seen some startups with brilliant ideas. All underestimate their capital needs. Which is probably OK. I did, too. Enthusiasm is sometimes a substitute for money.
The Italian car pooler. Silly, but funny video. Click here.
Bad dentist jokes (for your young grandchildren)
+ What does the dentist of the year get? A: A little plaque
+ What did the dentist see at the North Pole? A: A molar bear
+ What did the dentist say to the golfer? A: “You have a hole in one. “
+ What was the dentist doing in Panama? A: Looking for the Root Canal
+ Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused a Novocain injection during root canal treatment? A: He wanted to transcend dental medication!
Harry Newton whose dear friend in Australia has an Apple watch and loves it. He writes:
Mine is brilliant and I really have no complaints at all. I haven’t seen the battery below 40%, and all the apps work well. I don’t know why people complain about the charger, as it is lightweight (basically only a wire), and easy to use because of the magnet. I hope that Apple ultimately introduce this type of charging system for their phone. Unlike tsome writers, I have little difficulty interfacing with the app selection. The watch face itself, a face that I have self-selected, is the nicest looking and clearest watch face I have ever used. I particularly like the little taps on my wrist for emails, sms’s, and calendar reminders. I have also successfully made and received calls from the watch itself (albeit the sound is understandably somewhat distorted given the small size of the watch).
I bought some XOM (Exxon Mobil). It seems to be coming back. And it yields 3.36%. The market seems to be treading water. RTNB and HOTR are cheap specs. FEYE and CYBR are more expensive specs.
A Chinese friend of mine sold her business a few years ago and invested her money in the market. One of her picks was a Chinese solar company ReneSola Ltd.Well the price moved up nicely and she was looking at a great profit, she went back to China for a short vacation. On her return she looked up her stock and found the bottom had fallen out and she lost her profit and most of her investment. I asked her what the symbol was, that I do a little investing, and would like to look into this company. She said it was SOL, true story, I fell on the floor in hysterical laughter, after getting back on the chair I apologized to her and explained the English expression SOL.
I can’t believe Shake Shack. Not sure why all those people thought to short them when they have so much room for growth and store average = $4.5m