Hiked back into to retrieve my mountain bike up around the junction of Big Pine Buckhorn Road / 9n11 and Sierra Madre Road yesterday and it's nowhere to be found. Huge disappointment.
Want to see a crazy trade?
Yesterday, someone OPENED $SPLK 127 calls, for $22,000, expiring tomorrow.
Then today Cisco Systems $CSCO announced acquiring Splunk for $28B, $SPLK up 20%.
The contracts were $0.04 yesterday, now $18.30.
They exited today for a 45,650% return...
I have over 400 hours of experience playing Civilization V. Vladimir Putin should have known that when his national happiness fell below -20 he would start spawning random insurgents. Here’s what he should do next: 🧵(1/?)
#FinchFire - Camp Pendleton - Fire is 510 acres. Firing operations completed. FD transitioning to patrol status. Residents in North County may see drift smoke overhead in the coming hours.
I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:
Snow continues to pile up across the #Sierra during these series of storms since Christmas Day, now sitting at 215% of avg for this date. Also, the snowpack typically peaks April 1st across the Sierra, and the state now sits at 94% of its April 1st avg! Data from: @CA_DWR#CAwx
The Sierra Nevada is going to get absolutely buried.
Red Peak in @YosemiteNPS is forecast to see 153" of snow in the next 5 days, and 23.25 feet in the next 10 days.
Very rare orographic waterfall clouds or fog draping down the Santa Rosa Mountains this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood) @SanDiegoWCMwx @NWSSanDiego#AtmosphericRiver
Rather than collapse or revival, the most likely path for Twitter under Musk seems something more like Facebook: rising levels of politicized data smog and spam, a steady exodus of disgusted users toward other platforms and a slow but meaningful decline in relevance.
Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow.
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California is going into a major heat wave this weekend with the associated strain on the grid. Talking to many reporters and reading/watching media, it's clear that there is still a lot of confusion about what this means. So, a🧵