Matthew Garrott

Investment Research, Fairway Wealth Management

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Remember the bird autist? His name is Samuel. He’s 11. And good news! Everyone loves him, respects him, he’s won the acknowledgement of his peers, and everything wonderful is going for him. An actual feel good story with no twists. Just winning. 👏🏼❤️

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

We need a Remo Williams sequel.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2.

This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

[Bobby Wagner @bwags]

sports in the streaming era are so cool. is it easier to find? no. is the broadcast weirdly dark and gray? yes. is the connection more reliable? definitely not. it must be cheaper then? also no

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

I think if the umpire wins two challenges he should get something.

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

My kid: I can’t wait to see this Hail Mary.

Me: They’re on the 15 yard line, buddy. That’s not a Hail Mary.

*Caleb Williams runs backwards 20 yards and chucks it 50 yards for the TD*

My kid: Wow! What a Hail Mary.

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

@AndyfromNewHamp As a Browns fan I hear you but there have been seasons where relegation would have been preferable for us.

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

And in music news, number one on the college charts this summer was Better Than Ezra.

And, at number two?

Ezra.

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

@buccocapital Thought this was about season ticket pricing for seats at the new Browns stadium at first glance.

[Liberty 💚🥃 @LibertyRPF]

Not a bad reminder:

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@niccruzpatane Must have that Full Self Diving update

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

Powell says if he can’t pay banks to hold reserves the Fed would “lose control over rates.” That’s because the Fed has flooded banks with so many reserves they don’t trade federal funds anymore. The Fed just sets the rate wherever it wants. It’s “Price Fixing.” There is no real market anymore. If the Fed stopped paying interest on reserves it would be forced to reduce its balance back to a level where there were no excess reserves. The supply and demand for reserves and bank trading desks would once again influence rates. Powell says doing this could be disruptive. So, here is what I hear. We grew our balance sheet so much that we can’t unwind it without screwing up the system. This is exactly what Democrats are saying about COVID-era Obamacare subsidies. Now that they are in place we can’t take them away without causing pain. This is no way to run a government. Keep making it bigger and more powerful and then say dismantling it will cause harm. Just stop. Stop it all.

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

@Oilfield_Rando You are correct, but out of the trail mix we call life, she picked you.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

CLEVELAND GUARDIANS PLAYOFF-CLINCHING WALK-OFF HIT BY PITCH MY GOODNESS

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

@CleGuardians win. Here’s a picture of Doc to celebrate.

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@TrungTPhan Be a beacon?

[Bespoke @bespokeinvest]

Remember the days when people used Facebook and Instagram to keep up with friends and family?

From a Meta filing last week:
h/t @benthompson

[Matthew Garrott @MatthewGarrott]

Dog

[Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme]

On this day 18 years ago, ten-year-old Jonathan Ware said, “I like turtles."