Holiday Spirit

Recently we read about the world’s first $1 trillion company. They make AI chips as opposed to AL chips (depending on the font, AI and AL can look the same), because there’s no such thing as an AL chip, except John and I are working on turning AL into an AL Coin, a form of crypto meant to compete with Doge Coin. Not really. But crypto is a way to lead us into just what one trillion means. When we grew up nobody talked about billionaires, though I’m sure there were a few like the Rockefellers. We heard of millionaires, and then multi-millionaires. So and so was worth a staggering $100 million. Today that is seemingly chump change, not for us, but that isn’t the point. You’d need 10 times that much to be a billionaire. Why is it that every time I write the word “billionaire,” I hear Bernie Sanders saying, “the billionaaah class.” At any rate, the term, “billionaire” is now so common, we’re hearing about trillionaires. It sounds like the same thing to us. But this comic put it into perspective for me. Perhaps we’ll understand it better when we become 31,000 years old.

Nothing puts us in the giving spirit more than talking about millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires. What do they buy each other? I imagine them saying, “Honey, this year I got you a great gift, Australia!” “You mean we’re going to Australia on vacation?” “No, I meant I bought Australia, the entire continent.” But for us more down to earth types, we get to see, “25 cool gift ideas for the holiday season.” Every day. In every single online article. Because if you click on it just once you’ll be served a similar ad every day for the rest of your life. Even if you live until you’re 31,000 years old. But that’s not what bothers us. Nope. It’s that come-on page. The one with the home self-serve frozen custard maker. Think of it. It’s like having a Dairy Queen in your own home. But then you open the ad and start to scroll and it’s not in there. Even when you get to #25. And that is the problem. It’s nowhere. Just like those sponsored stories showing, for instance, a picture of a young and beautiful Julia Roberts accompanied by a teaser like, “you won’t believe what they look like now.” So you scroll and scroll and scroll and you get before and after pictures of almost everyone who has ever lived and breathed but you don’t get Julia Roberts. What’s up with that?

Happy Holidays. That’s it for this week’s rant. We’ve gotta run. We’ve got about a trillion things on our to do lists.

Andy and John