Typo and Nobody To Whine To

 

The article, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-been-years-since-investors-have-been-this-fearful-of-a-stock-market-crash-nobel-prize-winning-economist-warns-11603685224, discussed a NY Times Op-Ed by Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller's observation that his Crash Confidence Index was flashing warning signs.,  In addition, the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings (CAPE) ratio was in territory not seen except the lead-up to the Great Depression and just before dot-com bubble burst.

In my own version of flagellation, I checked finanace.yahoo.com, then assumed the fetal position and turned the electric blanket up to 9.   (The last phrase was stolen from a Limelighter's recording.)

Ever the pedantic, the sentence "Shiller also pointed to the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings (CAPE) ratio, a measure he helped created." jumped out at me.  While I'm not confident enough in my English grammar to explain why this is not correct, I know enough to know that it is not correct.

A brief attempt to contact the author through the Marketwatch webs site was frustrating because it required filling in text boxes which didn't exist on the form.  I took a chance on searching for the author by name.  Even though I misspelled his name, Rocket Reach (rocketreach.co) found some probably email address sites, but without the name part.  Sigh.

Kitchen Sink Drain Mat

 The plastic coded wire rack in my kitchen sink has rusted through and left stains on the porcelain and told me in no uncertain terms that it was time for a replacement.  

In my 21^st Century it means asking someone the name of the object followed by a web search.  In the end I found a rubber mat at a discount store for $2.99.  ($3.25 if you add in the tax.)

Just before I put the mat in the sink I took a closer look.  It's something I've done more and more for ideas for my Engineering Drawing course.  This I imagine is similar to musicians looking for patterns and inspiration in sounds I'd never remember.  For me everyday objects get a brief consideration as a homework or exam problem.   (The latest midterm had a variant on COVID-19 icon.)

I realized that the lines of holes in the mat were not orthogonal (perpendicular to the sides), but at a slight angle.  And then there were the ridges.  Could I actually ask the students to do that in 3D, or more importantly, could I?

And with that I was off on a 2¹/₄ hour jaunt through AutoCAD land.  Here's the result:

This is the type of drawing which, in the past, I would say makes the world a safer place for democracy by keeping the students off the streets.