RichC | August 19, 2026
Have you seen this map of the 10 rivers in Asia and Africa that are responsible for 95% of the plastic polluting the world’s oceans … and is it true? The claim comes from a real 2017 study (Schmidt et al.). Researchers estimated that rivers carry 0.4–4 million tons of plastic to the sea each […]
RichC | August 18, 2026
The summer storms keep coming again and again! One hundred dollar hamburger lunches are done in small planes (a “staying current” aviation tease), but Brenda and I sort of did the same this past weekend. Instead of hamburgers at airports, we drove “her” 2019 Tesla Model 3 to Fazoli’s and back on Sunday afternoon … […]
RichC | August 17, 2026
I can’t believe it … I didn’t realize that Seals and Crofts and ”Get Closer” was mentioned on Music Monday before 7 years ago. Nevertheless, they were one of my favorites harmony groups back on the 1970s … but yes I did include their 1973 Summer Breeze Live version and 1972 Summer Breeze recorded version […]
RichC | August 16, 2026
Anthropic recently confirmed that Claude AI will now embed invisible watermarks into AI-generated text, in order to comply with the EU AI Act’s transparency rules that took effect August 2. The watermark travels with the text even after copying and light editing, and doesn’t affect readability — you’d never spot it by eye. Here’s how […]
RichC | August 15, 2026
Ever since the women’s basketball phenom Caitlin Clark entered the WNBA, there has been increasing attention to a sport that has gone unnoticed by much of America. Now the talk on sports radio, social media and conservative television isn’t about Clark’s dominating performance, but more about her being targeted (above – some think jealousy and […]
RichC | August 14, 2026
Nothing really earth shattering regarding a WordPress plug-in glitch requiring a PHP update earlier this week, but it did force me to tweak my “smallish” Digital Ocean server that really is in need of more RAM. But, since I offload image serving for the most part to a separate server and audio/video streaming to AWS […]
RichC | August 13, 2026
My commentary was published in the “Gray Area” of TheHustings in response to Stephen Macaulay’s right column, so saving it to the blog’s archive. AUGUST 11, 2026 — There’s an important distinction missing here: Wage growth is not the same thing as economic performance. [“So, About Those Manufacturing Numbers” by Stephen Macaulay, right column.] The […]
RichC | August 12, 2026
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RichC | August 11, 2026
For much of the post-Global Financial Crisis era, equity investors enjoyed a structural tailwind. Low interest rates, subdued inflation and steady growth created a favorable liquidity and supply/demand backdrop. Companies borrowed cheaply, bought back shares aggressively, and pursued takeovers that further reduced the public float, according to Interactive Brokers trader insight. The net supply of […]
RichC | August 10, 2026
After the PHP upgrade. Testing a few items.
RichC | August 10, 2026
The recording of “Twist and Shout” is legendary for being performed in a single take by The Beatles in 1963. John Lennon delivered a raucous, throat-shredding vocal performance while suffering from a cold. Producer George Martin scheduled the track as the final song of the session to preserve Lennon’s voice, noting it as “arguably the […]
RichC | August 9, 2026
Sometimes it is the small things in life that get one excited. That happened for me as a fan of books by Annie Jacobsen last month and finding out I was the winner of a signed 1st Edition of her 2011 book “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base” Yes, I’ve […]
RichC | August 8, 2026
I’ve subscribed to newspapers and financial publications for most of my adult life (and complained about subscription woes before). Having started my career working for HBJ and then a division of Knight-Ridder, I have always appreciated getting news and information from newspapers and magazines … and believe quality journalism is worth paying for –– I […]
RichC | August 7, 2026
Prior to installing OpenCore my aging “tweaked” Late 2012 iMac was becoming worthless as the MacOS wasn’t updatable from Catalina, now with Sequoia it has a new lease on life … at least for a little longer. It is running flawlessly and doing nearly everything I need it to do … nice big iMac 27” […]
RichC | August 6, 2026
Last week I re-tweeted this video of a toy that “I wished that I had,” but that my cousin Bobby had back in 1972. It was one of the greatest flying toys and thought it would be perfect for Throwback Thursday #TBT. A few years later, I had a variety of balsa wood rubber band […]
RichC | August 5, 2026
While attempting to type out a couple of thoughts at the request of TheHustings editor (an email to all contributors), I semi-addressed the topical requests listed (all critical of the Trump administration) … but decided to add my two cents, being the political “elephant” in the room: The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are taking […]
RichC | August 4, 2026
It has been a strange summer weather wise, at least compared to normal summers for this part of SW Ohio. We’ve had hot days in July (which is normal) … but stronger than usual summer storms ripping through now that it is August. I’ve never noticed so many “tornado warnings” in one evening pop up […]
RichC | August 3, 2026
Sometimes listening to SiriusXM triggers me to thinking, “have I’ve posted on this before?” In this case I did … and not that long ago. Hm .. to post or not to post again? ☹️ Since I’ve already snipped the iPhone screenshot and started this Music Monday post, I guess I’ll continue. Besides, its an […]
RichC | August 2, 2026
It was great to catch up with each of my nephews and nieces … and their now many children … during last week’s family reunion at a Hocking Hills lodge. The cousins gelled as if they were never apart … almost as if no time elapsed. BUT … they are now the parents of the […]
RichC | August 1, 2026
This past week our family on my wife’s side was fortunate to be able to almost ALL get together for a summer family reunion here in Ohio at Hocking Hills State Park. It was a semi-centrally located so that those from Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and a few locations in Ohio could […]