5 Thoughts for March 31, 2017

1. Effect of the Tiko 3D Cancellation: When the Tiko 3D team announced on Kickstarter that it was suspending operations leaving some 10,000+ people without printers, it had a notable side effect: The price of Monoprice's cheapest 3D printer spiked, and as soon as supplies ran out, the price shot back down. By using The Tracktor, it's easy to see this effect. It should be obvious that Amazon's using automated demand/supply pricing which is little different than Uber's much complained about demand pricing scheme.
   
   
2. Corporate April Fools: Tomorrow is April Fools Day, but because it's on a Saturday, pranks by corporations are being played out today, not tomorrow, as corporate does not want to come in on the weekend. I enjoy a good prank, but last year I decided that it was all too much of a mainstream thing and no longer fun. The best pranks require a setup but these days most pranks aren't all that elaborate.
3. It's Nunes Your Business: Bad pun, I know, but I feel as though Devin Nunes deserves some extra mockery for saying today that, "those reports are mostly wrong" on who supplied him with intelligence via the White House. The mockery is deserved because, since there were three individuals named and the reports are "mostly" wrong, it means that one of the three identified individuals did supply him with the intelligence. Moreover, he's once again making assertions that escape logic, as the other two may have well been involved in the search of intelligence documents and therefore part of the process of handing him intelligence data. It's as if Nunes would like to have America accept that only the Watergate burglars should have been prosecuted, rather than the planners and the mastermind. You have to understand, Devin's a little 'slow'.
4. Oops: Donald forgot to sign his EO today. I guess he was too tired from staying up all night worrying about what Mike Flynn has to say, eh?
   
   
5. Visual Cues: I offer up this photo of a construction project near me, without commentary, as I think the photo speaks for itself.