GAME05

And then you read "Well technically they can offer swaps of their swaps" and you realize maybe it's best if the team just sat this Deadline out.

Thank you, that helps. I don't know why I thought it, but I had always understood that his powers came from Krypton having a way higher gravity than Earth. Well, no matter, I was rooting for Richard Pryor, anyway. The obvious question here is if he had spun the earth North/South would that have stopped time? Maybe once he spun the earth back the right way he could have slowed it down just a tad so we can do away with Leap Year.

If Superman got weak and near death when he was exposed to kryptonite, does that mean before the planet was destroyed everyone was just walking around like that?

No way, she'll marry rich, stay skinny and never stop mentioning the charity her husband once donated to.

Only just heard. Ueck made me a baseball fan. I've always had trouble sleeping, and a good few seasons before the big '92 run I started listening to games to help me sleep. I got to become more excited to hear blowouts (usually losses) because realizing nobody cared much about the game anymore, Uecker would fill the time with a long, rambling, hilarious story punctuated with the occasional "Oh, and Vaughn struck out" note because he was still actually calling a game.

And the winner for least surprising Packers offseason move is.......

Maybe Micah Parsons could be a good pickup. He's heading into his 5th year option and hasn't had the greatest words to say about Dallas. Though a "win because I'm getting old" Jerry Jones would probably be happy to franchise tag him and not let him go for cheap. It would be the next best thing to replacing Jaire if there's no immediately-as-good player available. A Gary/Parsons/Wyatt pass rush would sure be fun to watch!

If they hired Deion does that mean they'd try and trade Prescott in order to trade up to draft Shadeur Sanders to be QB?

$400 to $8.20 to $1300. Crypto is stupid.

My state's DOT will hire private contractors to help clear the roads of snow. They make $350/hr if they use a DOT vehicle and $450 if they bring their own.

I'm optimistic we can keep Hurts contained and not have ourselves another Kaepernick situation, but not as much about slowing Saquon. Overall I think our defense will do fairly well. On offense I worry that maybe Jacobs will have a 3yd average but nothing much for big gains and our offense will struggle to get enough consistency to score 6 instead of 3. Or maybe like a lot of games it just comes down to whether Jordan Love's Brett Favre throws will be caught by us or them.

A go-bag is just being mindful. Don't forget the hand-warmers. I prefer the ceramic water filters to the carbon since they can be cleaned. Just don't let it freeze with water around the filter. Arsonists always tend to show up with big fires. We had three big ones going in my state some years ago and one arsonist was an amateur meteorologist wanting to make a good audition film, and the other was a pack of 20 y/o kids who lit a tire on fire and pushed it down a mountain. There was a lot of looting in Appalachia, too. People were traveling in and making their way to the area just to do so. We had people posted up just to guard big department store areas. Ghouls.

Has Reed necessarily slipped or is it just a product of a system which doesn't much prioritize one receiver over another? Although what's the o/u on Reed jet sweeps next game? 4?

The "sign a veteran QB to be our starter" seems to just condemn a team to mediocrity. Not rebuilding, not a SB contender. Feels like SF just has to re-sign him and hope he doesn't think he's a $50m player. KC rolling out their practice squad QB for their game against Denver. They clearly have a preference for who they'd rather play.

Aped into some hype and caught the top end of a major major wick. Ended up paying 4:1 for it and lost a lot. Just dumb dumb dumb on my part and I should have known better. Really upset with myself, but it is what it is, I guess. High chance of some influencer mentions soon, but that's obviously not what I wanted to be banking on. In other news, AI Agents are the new memes and I wouldn't touch a single one. A million of them out there with no real way to assess expected value. Plus hold a second past the top and those things are gonna crash 90% overnight easy.

I don't disagree with you but at that point why have Divisions at all? The excitement of a rivalry doesn't wane if we only play the Bears once instead of twice, plus the schedule difficulty between teams probably evens out a lot more without the play-twice rule.

Saquon gets 2,000 yards and we don't even have to put a "But it was a 17-game season" on an asterisk. And to think he wanted to stay in New York.

The 7th playoff team really dilutes the product, which the NFL sure loves to do. Any AFC team thinking "Oh no, I sure hope we don't have to play Denver"? And then these small Divisions and the 9-7 Buccaneers are looking at a home game.

I wonder if a trend will emerge of teams hiring a "Clock Management Specialist" who talks in the ear of the coach late in games. And I don't know why there aren't more time outs right before two minutes instead of letting the clock wind a ways down to the Warning. If the offense is running the ball to kill the clock, call your timeout at 2:03.

Underrated even as a HOFer. Nobody has been scarier standing at 1b. I'd imagine whoever hit #2 in the order was told to never, ever swing at the first couple of pitches.

It seems like schools should be paying for coach memberships to everything, just for the sake of the kids being eligible for more awards. I'm acquaintances with a top-tier college girls coach and he's going everywhere to recruit constantly, but I would only figure (or maybe I'm wrong about it) that getting awards would make a difference in getting recognized and scouted by college recruiters.

I picked a 180k peak at the start and haven't moved from that, so it's great to see where on the same page. Especially since I remember your posts from last cycle and so have a lot of respect for your opinion. I was buying from last October and have put money in monthly, and it bugs me that we've seen 2-5- even 20x from a lot of these projects so far yet I haven't seen near that yet. Ultimately I think my mistake was going with too-small projects to start and not just riding the established large-cap projects for a while. I should have played the BTC-->Large MC-->Small MC money flow better than I did. It also bugs me that I put a market order in for a Grayscale product and immediately lost $1000. Guess I won't do that again! (I doubled up on my Grayscale Chainlink Trust holding.) I have Karrat for gaming but am otherwise riding mid-cap AI projects like Neural and 0x0 and HashAI. Axie hit $8b last cycle and that's probably a good aim for Karrat. Though I'll be dumping it before their big April 18th VC unlock. $1-10b I think is a good target for the mid-cap AI projects, roughly a 10x from here. Seems to be a little more optimism that Trump is indeed going to add BTC to the federal reserve, granted what any politician *says* isn't worth much. But hopefully so and then China and Saudi Arabia follow. China allowing BTC buys on the mainland is always possible and would certainly crush that $180 prediction.

"The first M2 Money Supply bull market" could indeed be interesting. Considering the macro environment right now maybe we don't really see the diminishing returns this time around, though I suspect this cycle will be the last particularly volatile one we'll get to see. Seems there's just as much reason to believe in a short-cycle top (April/May) this time around as there is a usual top in November/December. Already planning on a heavy out come March-ish, and I guess buying back in for summer (whether we're in a real rebound or a dead cat bounce) will be tough to tell, but maybe I'll base it on the price of BTC at the moment. That is, if we're hovering around 130 I'll decide there's more to the run, but if we're approaching 200 in Spring I'll just call it a day and not take more risk. But overall I'm still not really sure on a practical exit yet. Like everyone else I particularly like AI this year. My HashAI and 0x0 bags have been great so far. AI Agents are getting all the talk now, but with no price history to go on I just don't know what constitutes overbought and underbought and so I'm just staying away from those. I'm not sure what to make of gaming this time around, or at least I'm not as high on it as I was last cycle. Though I've got a big bag of Karrat right now. Karrat and Off the Grid seem to be the only games people talk about (Illuvium seems to be in permanent beta) and instead people are hyping the launchpads. But if there's no hype for individual games, why buy the launchpads in the fist place? Or maybe I'm just upset that Karrat hasn't had a run yet. Karrat has also soured me on any project which isn't a fair launch. Seems like these are very much noticed this time around and buyers are staying away, so from now on I will, too.

Did a blind writing test with the Mont Blanc pen I gave a sister for Christmas. Everyone, including me, liked the cheap-o pen better.

Almost feels like we just skipped right over the 70s and went right from the 60s to the 80s. Maybe an announcement in the coming months of the US adding BTC as a reserve asset. I've heard it would be something like buying 1 million with a 540-BTC buy per day, which is roughly 100 more than miners can produce. Maybe a small rate cut coming soon. And China just announced the printing of $1.4 trillion to throw into their economy.