{"id":49255,"date":"2020-01-17T07:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T12:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=49255"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:44:49","slug":"dart-throwing-and-advanced-pinching-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=49255","title":{"rendered":"Dart throwing and advanced pinching (oneself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can&#8217;t tell you what to buy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throw a dart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most everything is going up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Especially businesses that are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Scaleable (like use the cloud),<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Have products that we use and which excite us, and<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Has management that doesn&#8217;t put the company in a pickle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a pickle story from CondeNast Traveler:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/condenastandBoeing-750x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/condenastandBoeing-750x482.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/condenastandBoeing-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/condenastandBoeing-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/condenastandBoeing.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It reads &#8220;<em>With all of its challenges, is it possible the Max would be grounded forever?<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/story\/new-boeing-737-max-setbacks-could-further-delay-its-return?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=cnt&amp;utm_mailing=CNT_Daily_PM_011620&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5bd676ea24c17c10480155fb&amp;cndid=38760355&amp;hasha=8ee9050bc59774c3f5b5b9580f85b269&amp;hashb=e63f68c7f08ab50ab9fadf2bc9b385523fc33ca0&amp;hashc=baa7d40cb0da09dbdc3c826f3bfa4a3898aa06fa3cc6558d83d9d11dae6ffc82&amp;esrc=AUTO_OTHER&amp;utm_term=CNT_Daily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apple is now $315. Amazon is nearly $2,000. Microsoft is $166. Google is $1,450.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nike is over $100.<\/p>\n<p>The hype is still pouring in: viz an email received at 10:39 PM last night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/FBremains.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">China said it was growing at 6.1% despite the Trade War. That&#8217;s a lot better than us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are two years of Apple. Who knows when this will stop? Maybe $400?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AppleTwoYearsDaily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple itself designs the main computer chip that goes into its iPhones and has them made by Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM).\u00a0 Apple&#8217;s\u00a0A13 Bionic\u00a0 chip in my iPhone 11 sports 8.5 billion transistors and\u00a0\u00a0can perform one trillion operations per second. I don&#8217;t make these numbers up.<\/p>\n<p>Look at TSM&#8217;s ten-year chart &#8212; a thing of beauty:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You didn&#8217;t need to own Apple or TSM to do well. This is the S&amp;p 500 compared to the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">DJI (Dow Jones)<\/span> and the <span style=\"color: #339966;\">IXIC (Nasdaq) <\/span>over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/spxversus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tennis locker room banter yesterday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harry: I did really great today. I can afford to buy you a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lucas: No sugar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Urgent updates should be installed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Download the latest Windows 7 and 10 updates and install them pronto. There&#8217;s bad stuff floating around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What motivates members of Congress?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Justin Amash is a politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Michigan&#8217;s 3rd congressional district since 2011. Originally a member of the Republican Party, Amash became an independent in July 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week he tweeted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/members-of-Congrss-tweet-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Does anyone have a decent credit card?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve used a Citi MasterCard American Airlines AAdvantage card. but the card is increasingly useless:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ American Airlines keeps bumping up mileage to get a &#8220;free&#8221; ticket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ American won&#8217;t allow me to buy the few extra miles I need for the &#8220;free&#8221; ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have a credit card that&#8217;s any good?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of a credit card that gives cash back &#8212; not airline miles you can&#8217;t use, that are always blocked, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to find stuff on your laptop<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not easy is the simple answer. Here are the solutions I use, in order:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ <strong>Everything <\/strong>is free software that finds files on your hard disk. Type in Eleanor and it will find all the files &#8212; photos, etc &#8212; with the word &#8220;Eleanor&#8221; in it. It doesn&#8217;t search inside the files. It just searches the file names. It&#8217;s brilliant, simple, fast, flawless and free. Get it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voidtools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ <strong>Lookeen<\/strong> searches inside Outlook. It&#8217;s very thorough. I like my stand-alone version of Outlook (not in the cloud), which is part of Microsoft Office. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookeen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ <strong>Windows Search<\/strong> is the search software that comes with Windows. It&#8217;s OK, but cumbersome. It worked better in Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Favorite cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/europeantourism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/horrormovie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/horrormovie-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/horrormovie-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NolongerImportant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And my absolute favorite:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Testyourstupidity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"583\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Another trip for the kids<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eleanor and Peter live in Portland, Oregon. Here they are in Portland, Maine. When I was their age, a &#8220;big&#8221; trip was a three-mile bike ride to Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EleanorandPeterinMaine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Good weekend ahead. I&#8217;m seeing two of the grandkids.\u00a0 &#8212; Harry Newton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you what to buy. Throw a dart. Most everything is going up. Especially businesses that are &#8230; + Scaleable (like use the cloud), + Have products that we use and which excite us, and + Has management that doesn&#8217;t put the company in a pickle. 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