Korean war finally ending

North and South Korea talk and the war is finally coming to an end. If you were born during the start of that war, you are probably a granddaddy or grandmom now. It was 65 years ago! Even Trump was a kid back then.

Read about it: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/asia/korean-summit-intl/index.html

This. is. huge.

After nuke testing here and there why does this peace come so easily? Oh it needs to involve China and US too... Most people have forgotten about this terrible conflict. I really wonder why the north suddenly change. Peace! Posterity! Perhaps it will go so far that both Koreas merge back?

Incredible geeky pi quiz

Wow I came across a recite pi digit quiz: https://www.piday.org/pi-quiz/ ..and a site dedicated to pi day.

Did I do well? No I didn't. I just remembered 8 digits, what your typical calculator will give you. It is incredible that there are so many people bothered to remember more than that. To remember a few is enough: 3.1416. That's it. Don't need to go any further.

Delighted to see a joke page dedicated to pi. Wish the site say a bit more about Learn About π.

Goodbye Stephen Hawking on Pi Day

Stephen Hawking the great scientist passed away at 76. Read about it.

Good bye sir. You are THE most well known modern day scientist since Einstein. You have beats the odd: the doctors say you can't survive 2 years after diagnosed with that neuron disease that binded you to the wheel chairs. You probably outlived that doctor. Though you can't speak or move but fortunately there are machines that help you write out all the amazing works.

The "Brief History of Time" is such classic. I am glad to have read it in college. Will definitely buy another copy, the annotated version to read it at least once more. Being brilliant is one thing, being brilliant and still able to communicate to layman is another.

That "On the Shoulder of Giants" and "God Created the Integers" perhaps I will get one day.. when I have a big bookshelf.

Now to the world: Do not forget what he warned: AI can destroy the world!.

Now about π day. It is unfortunate I didn't learn another thing about π lately. If I say Happy Pi Day on facebook or something arrows shoot at me saying eeew you geek and nerdy! To those people I'll throw pie at their face. π These bozos don't even have a clue what π is.

The most useless sign

Boom! A Chicago Police Commander got killed in the Thompson Center, just a few blocks from where I work.

See news https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/person-shot-near-thompson-center.

But that place is full of this useless sign in every door:

Why do we even post such useless signs? It is not like a no-smoking sign where you can just butt our your cigarette before entering.

Now the criminal in custody is just not named. Look at this guy, in jailed for many years for various felonies... still unable to change him. Bad guy remain bad guy. Should there be capital punishment on repeated offenders?

"In Thompson Center" is as specific as you get in any media coverage. Where? In food court? Near CTA Station? A particular floor?

Prayers, mourning, what else can be done in Chicago gun violence? Nothing.

Dow drops 666

After MONTHS of rallying, the Dow has dropped 666 points today. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/582809604/dow-plummets-more-550-points.

You don't generally hear that big a drop.

Poof! a lot of that recent 401K gains are now lost.

Look at this:

The 2.6-percent drop in the Dow came as the Labor Department reported 200,000 jobs were added to the economy last month, which was stronger than expected, and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1 percent — the lowest since 2000.

But worries about inflation grew when the report showed that average hourly wages grew 2.9 percent from a year ago — the largest increase since June 2009. Yields for 10-year Treasurys hit four-year highs Friday.

Even with good news, just "worry" will cost things to drop so much? Gee I will never ever understand this volatile market.

Whoa, my gut feeling is... after dropping that much it is going to rise again! TIME TO BUY when price is low!

Well I am not going to play with money like that.

Waita minute, look at that 1 year and 5 year chart, Dow has been growing quite a bit. 666 points is actually not a whole lot.

I am not in big panic yet.