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Met up with my buddy the king yesterday, for the first time since before the holidays. He's pretty into current events, and also not afraid to embrace some pretty out-there theories. So when he told me that the Covid vaccine was only fifty percent effective against some of the new strains of the virus, I took it with a grain of salt.


Apparently, I didn't read the news yesterday.

At top is a portrait of him. If I saw this by anyone else, I'd say, that's pretty amateur. Hardly worth sharing. Yeah, well, that's where I'm at on the tablet learning scale.

While we're on the subject of runaway problems unleashed by the previous administration onto this one...

Apparently line cook is the most dangerous job, in terms of Covid exposure. Or rather, unmitigated Covid exposure, because awesomely, healthcare workers didn't show up on the list.

title: March 15, 2020


So remember how I was wondering how an individual investor could get involved in a pre-IPO company? It's not easy, to but there are avenues. Digging into some of the stories around GME, I've seen a couple references to "SPACs."


A "SPAC" is a "special purpose acquisition company." Basically, some hedge fund or other big players come up with the idea of raising a bunch of money to go shopping for companies in a specific sector. They create a "SPAC," people give them money, and then they go try to buy companies.

Invented in the '90s, like a lot of Wall Street, they dipped during the second W43 recession, but have been coming back.

And since we're on the subject of the future and transportation and all of that, here's a vision for Bay Area rail's future.

I guess we're still taking the ferry to Marin.

At top, that portrait. Below, yesterday's sun rise.



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