Down goes the Dow

Pro tip: if you want to inform us about issues pertaining to technology, don't create three identical posts in succession.

It raises questions relating to credibility.

Or, it raises questions about “tech is everything” reliability.

You can say that again...

Igy - congrats on the Athletics Hall of Fame at UT RIO grande Valley. I just saw that. I say this jokingly but any Hall of Fame that would have me I would not want to be a part of.

Thanks Sally, received this a few weeks ago, so looks like I will be traveling to Texas in February:

September 13, 2024

Reid Harter
1984 Cross Country Team

Dear Reid,

It is my pleasure and honor to officially inform you of the selection of the 1984 Cross Country team to the Javelina Hall of Fame Class of 2024. Javelina Athletics has a rich tradition of athletic success and you played an important role in that tradition while in Kingsville. Entering this hall of honor preserves the special mark you left on Javelina Athletics for all time.

When:Friday, February 21, 2025; 6:00 p.m. Social, 7:00 p.m. Dinner and Program

Where:Memorial Student Union Building Ballrooms

While we're at it.

Thanks Gente, 74 and doing well. Wife making pasta Santa Fe and a vanilla cookie bar.

The Texas A&I Cross Country Team:

Kingsville - The 1984 men's and women's cross country team is set to be inducted into the Javelina Hall of Fame Texas A&M-Kingsville athletics announced on Wednesday.
The team is the final selection to be announced to the Hall of Fame, with each announcement coming on previous Wednesdays.

One of the most dominant teams in Javelina cross country history, the men's cross country team took home the gold medal at the 1984 Lone Star Conference championship with 34 points and a whopping 22 point differential. For reference, Abilene Christian won the silver medal at the tournament with 56 points.
Felix Horta, senior from El Campo, was fourth in the LSC meet and Doug Erickson, junior from Phoenix, Ariz., finished fifth. Simon Guerrero, sophomore from Austin (Travis), was seventh; Tony Parisi, freshman from San Antonio (Roosevelt), eighth and Stacey Whitt, sophomore from Alvord, 10th.

The team finished second at the NCAA South-Central Regional meet, edged out by Troy by just a single point for the gold medal.

All-LSC selections for the men were Horta, Erickson, Guerrero, Parisi and Whitt.
On the women's side, the Javelinas would finish third at the conference tournament. Andrea Ratkovic, freshman from Corpus Christi (Flour Bluff), was fourth in the women's LSC meet. Janice Simmons, senior from Galveston (Ball), was fifth and Gloria Perez, freshman from Corpus Christi (Carroll), 10th.

All -LSC selections for the women were Ratkovic, Simmons and Lopez.

Igy - did you ever run against Todd Harbour? My longtime training mate ran with him at Baylor.

No, I was older. However, Todd ran for the Santa Monica Track Club under Joe Douglas who also coached me. Todd was a great runner, I was more of a durable hacker. You must have been pretty fast to train with Harbour.

He ran 3:50 as a collegian 40 years lago. Pretty fast

And without the considerable advantage of super Shoes. Port Isabel has had numerous great athletes, like pro football player and coach Juan Castillo. Juan was a GA when I was at A&I, nice guy.

On the grocery inflation front, here's a positive read on the data:

Hunter📈🌈📊
@StatisticUrban
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Grocery prices relative to wages are actually lower *right now* than they were under the vast majority of the Trump presidency

Nope, Bill. this trade must have cost you a bundle.

A year ago the 30 year was yielding around 4.7%. Now it is yielding just 4.12%

6 million views!

Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
I believe that long-term rates, e.g, 30-year rates, will rise further from here. As such, we remain short bonds through the ownership of swaptions.

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I saw this thread title while listening to "Don't bring me down" by ELO and I can't unthink the new lyrics. So I will share the curse with you. I tell you once more before I get off the floor, down goes the dow

Jeff Beck's "I'm Going Down":

"I'm going down.
Down, down, down goes the Dow. "

Flying to St John's Newfoundland we had to switch flights in Toronto. I noticed a number of people with ELO shirts. After we arrived I was talking to the wife of the couple from St John's that sat next to my wife (my wife and I had aisle seats across from each other). I asked if they were coming back from a vacation. She said, "no, they and many others were coming back from an ELO concert." Ironically, on the way to the Austin Airport, Turn to Stone played on the Uber driver's radio. I hadn't heard that song in years! Never was a big ELO fan, had none of their records. Did have a Move album and Roy Wood's Boulders album.

That white haired guy between Billy Gibbons and Kirk Hammett (Metallica) is John MFer McLaughlin! Hey seattle, Vishnu with you?

ELO is an excellent band - what a sound.

And they are an interesting answer to the harder-than-it-should-be question of 'name some beatle-esque bands in the 70s.' Lynne had been present in the studio when the Beatles recorded and considered ELO to be sort of a sequel to where the beatles were going.

n 1968, while performing with The Idle Race, Lynne and the other members of the band were invited to a Beatles session at Abbey Road Studios. While there, he met the Beatles during the making of The White Album, witnessing the band making it together. He spent an hour at the session, before going back to the sessions with the Idle Race. Years later, he admitted that being in the same room "caused me not to sleep for, like, three days."[17] The original aim of Electric Light Orchestra was to take up "where the Beatles had left off, and to present it on stage." John Lennon praised the group, calling them the "sons of the Beatles" on a radio station when discussing the group's 1973 single "Showdown" on the New York radio station WNEW.[18][19]
Lynne worked with George Harrison very closely in the late 1980s.[20] This friendship eventually led to Harrison's appearance at the Birmingham Heartbeat Charity Concert, showing up as the finale of the concert and joining many other musicians in a rendition of "Johnny B. Goode", as well as a one-off Electric Light Orchestra concert, both in 1986.[21] In 1987, he appeared with Harrison at Prince's Trust in Wembley Arena.[22]
Critics often compared Electric Light Orchestra to The Beatles, and they were often criticised for "ripping off" the band. Lynne admitted that he "was very influenced by the Beatles' sound of '68 and '69. That has obviously been a big influence on the way [he] looked at songwriting" and said that being compared with The Beatles was the "ultimate compliment".[23]