Stock prices are charging ahead — especially all the hot issues, like Solarcity (SCTY), First Solar (FSLR) and Netflix (NFLX).
The list of new highs — 262 of them to be precise — is quite staggering. Check out this chart on U.S. Exchanges 52 week highs — click here.
It contains names like Alcoa, Adobe, Alaska Air, Amgen, Boeing, Brunswick Corp, Corelogic, Comcast, Chipolte, Costco, Danaher, FedEx, Halliburton, MasterCard, Raytheon, United Parcel, VF Corp, and even U.S. Steel.
This list is a good place to troll for new ideas. More on this tomorrow.
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Personal Electronics Now Allowed During Takeoff on Delta and JetBlue Flights. There is no more need to hide your personal devices during takeoff! the FAA has already approved two major US airlines to allow personal electronic devices to be in use during the entire flight — on the ground and everywhere in the air.
This new ruling is a great excuse to buy yourself a Kindle PaperWhite — the best e-reader. Only $139 without the ads. Click here.
Or the new Apple iPad Mini with the retina display. Only $399 for the 16 gig machine. Click here. 16 gig is plenty big enough for reading and watching the occasional movie, while you’re waiting for them to check that irksome light in the toilet.
Hoisted on my own petard. Buy clocks that reset themselves when the time changes. Never have to climb a ladder. Bad logic:
1. The clocks need their batteries replaced — usually every time the time changes.
2. They never bloody well work. (That’s Australian for acute frustration.) Exhibit A:
I photographed these two identical clocks this morning. These two clocks are meant to set themselves to the correct time through a conversation with a Federal government, magical wireless signal.
Hint: the one on the left is right.
Don’t ever think about buying one of these handsome, pricey ($60) clocks. Their only benefit is they’re large — 20″ diameter. Perfect size for indoor tennis courts. If only they’d work…Sigh.
Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons.
Harry Newton
“Man with two clocks…. never really know what time it is…”
Possibly, they are set to two different timezones. Or, one has not ‘realized’ DST is over.
These ‘atomic’ clocks use the time signal from WWVB in Boulder, Colorado. NYC is a bit far from Boulder, but it should get set every few evenings (propagation is better at night). WWVB is an AM signal on 60 khz (wayyyyyyyy below AM broadcast) that pulses on & off every second, in a sort-of 1950’s digital system. Each minute, it starts a new time.
However, the NIST time is sent to the clock in UTC (or Greenwich Time, GMT) format. So you still have to tell it which time zone you’re in.
I built one of these WWVB clocks to renovate an old piece of ham radio gear. It’s a confluence of 1960’s vacuum tube gear and a 21st century LCD display. The old clock was … clunky.
The crime problem to be is far worse than just some more rich people taxes.
Of more importance to me out here in sunny Calif. is the question of also allowing cellphone calls on flights. The only answer is NO! Maybe even HELL NO!!
Harry,
Have you considered writing a blog on a subject you know something about?
Cliff,
Have you considered not being a dick?
Hey Harry…..let me be the first to congratulate you on your new mayor. I’m sure your thrilled to be electing a true tax and spend liberal democrat. But with Bill de Blasio your getting so much more. It’s going to be hilarious watching New Yorkers come to the realization that they elected a socialist, communist and a Nazi all in one. As the old saying goes….”only in New York.” Don’t worry Harry your taxes are going up big time, just the way you like it…..ROTGLMAO!!! (Rolling On The Ground Laughing My Ass Off)
I buy my wall clocks at a mall in Little Saigon (Garden Grove, South Cal). This is the only place I can find battery wall clocks that have smooth running second hands. No annoying tic, tic. They keep excellent time, but I do have to reset at the time changes
Our Atomic Clock keeps good time, however, when the nation changed back to Standard Time, the Atomic God in the sky did not know our clock was in Arizona where we do not change to Daylight time. It set us back an hour anyway. Oh yes, the clock cost $2.00 at a local estate sale, provides Day, Date, Inside Temperature and normally accurate time down to the seconds. The numbers are huge!