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Now that it's lightened up, starting to melt. Damn you, late January sun angle!!

-6 SD?

Ground whitening up. Nasty snow grains though.

We flake.

I'll say. What a beast.

Anyone want cream? Ok, no cream.

Looks like I fold. Sucks, but par for the course this season.

Glad that it's inside day 10 at least. Just keep the signal strong on the ensembles for a few more days, that's all I ask.

This entire thread is like the last fifteen seconds of this video.

You mean besides it being the NAM?

I'll take it!

Yes, right by Draper Labs.

That produced this:

Feb '15?

Let's cover some grass.

Here, have a . Don't cost nuthin'.

Ledecky could legitimately make the top heat in the men's 1500m at Olympic trials. She routinely beats up on some of our best male distance talent in practice, throwing down times from a push that would've won Olympic gold a decade ago. She doesn't have the versatility of Phelps, but she is extremely special in her own right. Also, I believe they've added the women's 1500m and men's 800m to the Olympic lineup, so you may see her lap some folks.

I would also add that I can see how markets like this can drag in even the best managers for fear of missing out. I remember hearing Stan Druckenmiller talk about how he had gotten out of the markets in '99 due to the extreme valuations, only to go crazy watching stocks continue to march higher while he was on the sidelines. He couldn't take it anymore in early 2000, reversed course and piled into tech a few weeks before the market topped. He knew he was being stupid, but couldn't help himself and lost billions.

Yeah, it's rapidly getting out of control. The daily volume of options contracts is just insane now, which of course forces stocks up via dealer gamma hedging. You wonder what the ultimate endgame is and whether another October '87 style day could come along under the right conditions.

This kind of manipulation is like a modern version of the 1920s stock pools that guys like Joe Kennedy used to pump and dump themselves to riches. At some point the SEC will catch on, but the markets have become a farce. Manipulation and speculative mania are the orders of the day for the time being.

As a former swimmer who raced (and got his ass kicked by) Phelps as an age grouper, I heartily endorse this message. People who don't follow swimming cannot truly fathom what a freak of nature he was. From making the Sydney team at barely fifteen to his unmatched versatility (at one point he held world records in the 100/200 fly, 200/400 IM and 200 free, was within hundredths of the world records in the 100/200 backstroke and 100 free, and was American record holder in the 400m free), to his superhuman ability to recover quickly between races, he was a talent for the ages. Even when he slacked off for a few years before the London Olympics, he still managed to be the most decorated athlete of the games. I wish we could have seen what he was truly capable of. He always swam so many races that many of his world records were set while he was exhausted. I bet if he had been fresh many of his records could last decades.

My recollection is that 2011 winter basically ended at the end of January. So if that's what you mean, I'm with you.

Maybe a coop. We've had enough failed coups already.

I'll be pissed if this cockteases SCT for days then jacks Dendy. Major blue balls.