Ken MacPherson

My hobbies are framed with: * impossible enigmas * insurmountable odds * Failure is a feature * Beauty as function * Unique but average * Truly original derivative As it applies to Life, love, women, programming, politics, engineering, farming, child rearing, law, tech & Mud.

Oldie but a goodie! True fans knew it from the very first note 🎶

Imagine paying for a race ticket, only to end up watching Iron Man fight

Virgin Cruises informs a couple about some changes to their trip…

Dr. Strange can do all this and not beat thanos.

Money does equate to happiness. Is it true?? 🤔

“In 1903, the biggest industry in the world was whaling. It disappeared almost overnight.” Jimmy Carr dropped this on the Joe Rogan podcast and it made me rethink how fast entire economies can vanish. Whaling collapsed in about 18 months once petrochemicals replaced whale oil. The same thing happened with horse manure in New York City — the streets were literally covered in it, brownstones had steps to stay above the filth, and laws couldn’t fix it. Then Henry Ford’s cars arrived, and within a few years the horses (and the problem) were basically gone. Carr’s point: the resources and industries we treat as permanent today can disappear shockingly fast when something better comes along. What “essential” industry or resource of today do you think could vanish in the next 20 years?

Doug Flutie really went from backup punt returner to starting quarterback 🤯

Ricky Gervais relays the most frequent question he is asked about his time hosting the Golden Globes Extremely funny story that ends with Elton John

In 1837, President Andrew Jackson invited the general public into the White House. The occasion? Jackson had a 1,400 pound block of Cheese sitting in the Entrance Hall of the White House that all were invited to eat. The Cheese was gifted to Jackson in 1835 by one Thomas Meacham, being produced by dairy farmers in Oswego County, New York. It circulated the Mid-Atlantic on a tour as it made its way to D.C. The great Cheese arrived at the White House by carriage with 24 horses pulling it. It resided in the White House for about a year until February of 1837, at his final party as President, Jackson invited all to eat their fill of the Cheese. "For hours did a crowd of men, women and boys hack at the cheese, many taking large hunks of it away with them. When they commenced, the cheese weighed one thousand four hundred pounds, and only a small piece was saved for the President's use. The air was redolent with cheese, the carpet was slippery with cheese, and nothing else was talked about at Washington that day. Even the scandal about the wife of the President's Secretary of War was forgotten in the tumultuous jubilation of that great occasion." - Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, 1886, Benjamin Perley Poore

Hedge fund positioning hits Liberation Day lows just as stocks are back to all time highs (source UBS S&T)

and cue the levered chase: total call option volumes just hit a 2026 high

The 5 generative AI models every leader should know: 1. Large Language Models (LLMs) = generate and understand natural language text 2. Code Models = specialized in programming languages and code generation 3. Diffusion Models = generate images from text prompts 4. Multimodal Models = handle multiple input types across text, images, and audio 5. Domain‑Specific Models = fine-tuned for specific industries or tasks

Never mind that one of the world’s most-important energy chokepoints remains closed. Markets are roaring back anyway, with the S&P 500 coming within 0.2% of its January record. on.wsj.com/3OjniDm

BREAKING: Caterpillar Inc. acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch — dubbed the "Tesla of agriculture"

NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It includes: - Abolish ICE - Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”. - Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.” - Give CA AG power to imprison ICE agents & their leadership. - Taxpayer funded legal representation & support for illegal aliens. - Ignore a SCOTUS ruling that allows ICE to utilize to use race, language, job, and location to contribute to “reasonable suspicion” for immigration arrests, and instead, “California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to its residents, despite the federal governments failure.” “This is about our right as a state to protect our residents,” Steyer says.

Alleged list of Congress preparing to resign: Eric Swalwell D-CA Tony Gonzalez R-TX Max Miller R-OH Dan Meuser R-PA Matt Rosendale (former Rep) R-MT Ruben Gallego D-AZ Nancy Mace R-SC Anthony DeEsposito (former Rep) R-NY Mark Green (former Rep) R-TN Lori Chavez (former Rep) R-OR Ritchie Torres D-NY Brian Steil R-WI Cory Booker D-NJ

George Washington pardoned all the whiskey rebels, the Confederates were granted amnesty, and Jefferson Davis had all of his charges dropped. In a country born out of treason and sedition, punishing treason and sedition is hard to justify.

Ohio’s temporary ban on synthetic kratom has cleared its final hurdle and is now set to become permanent state law following action taken this week. abc6onyourside.com/news/local/syn…

A good Update: AFD is clearing the scene without incident. This is now believed to be a large open burn fire situation as opposed to a plane crash. There are a lot of baseball games taking place and it seems like someone there called it in. AFD is clearing the scene. Again, NO PLANE CRASH: 8:05 PM

Akron Fulton heavy AFD response: