Understanding the Stock Market – Movements in Share Prices

Posted on February 27, 2025 by pauldelancey

Perhaps the biggest factor in determining the price of a share is earnings. If people expect a company’s forecasted earnings to rise, the share price of that company shall rise almost immediately. Conversely, investors predict company earnings to fall, the share price shall also decline.

Then if down the road, actual earnings exceed the expected ones, the price will jump immediately; the company has become instantly more valuable to own. Similar reasonsing applies if the actual earning are less than expected.

Unless,

take the case of the giant processors, chips. and artificial intelligence company Nvidia. Nvidia’s price plunged 8.48% today despite having actual earning exceed predicted ones.

WTF happened?

Investors had become used to actual earnings exceeding expected ones.

So,

Investors were expecting expected earnings to exceed earnings. So, if expected expected earnings are expected to exceed expected earnings and they don’t, the price of a share of that stock will fall big time.

And that’s why Nvidia’s shares fell in value.

Simple.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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The Mysterious Staple Remover

Posted on February 26, 2025 by pauldelancey

It’s about to turn into a staple.

How many times has this happened to you?

You stapled a stack of papers, but you need to take out that staple because it twisted into an impossible shape that wouldn’t hold two pages together, or you need to remove it  to insert a new page into the middle of the stack.

You look for your staple remover that always occupies pride of place on your desk.

It’s not there! What the heck?

So you remove the offending staple using your fingers. This happens all the time. Life is truly hard.

But then, BUT THEN, as soon as the staple is thrown away, the stapler reappears in the place it had always been. Can this problem of the disappearing stapler be solved?

NO.

But I can explain why this occurs. You can have a staple to be removed OR you can have a staple remover. But not both. Staples and their removers are merely two  forms of the same entity. It’s kinda like Clark Kent and Superman(tm). You never see the two of them together, because they are the same being.

I hope that this, at least, solves the mystery. Carry on the best you can.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Poway Summer Weather Forecast

Posted on February 25, 2025 by pauldelancey

Everybody wants to visit Poway, California. There are so gosh, darn many movies and shows to see, places to dine, parks to visit, and a library where you can check out books. We even have  more than one discount grocery store. So it’s easy to understand why people want to know what Poway, California’s weather forecast will be for the summer.

So here is Poway’s summer weather forecast.

Sunny and fairly warm during the daytime and cooler and darker at night.

Now you know. I look forward to seeing you come June.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Phrase – Pit of Time

Posted on February 24, 2025 by pauldelancey

How many times has this happened to you? You wanted to do something, but you ran out of time. All of a sudden, you got old. You feel as if time is always getting away from you.

You are not imagining things! Occasionally, something takes away the time you’ve been carefully hoarding.

If only there was phrase to describe this thing. And now there is.

TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE

Pit of Time

Awesome entry #58

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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Adobaba Tacos

Posted on February 23, 2025 by pauldelancey

Mexican Entree

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ADOBADA TACOS

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INGREDIENTS – MARINADE
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1 ancho chile
4 guajillo chiles
2 pounds pork shoulder
½ teaspoon cumin
2 garlic cloves
½ teaspoon Mexican oregano or oregano
½ cup orange juice
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon salt
2½ tablespoons white vinegar
1 bay leaf
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INGREDIENTS – ASSEMBLY
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⅔ cup fresh cilantro
4 radishes
1 small onion
5 limes
2 tablespoons oil
40 4.5″-corn tortillas or 20 6″-corn tortillas
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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meat slicer (optional)
food processor
sonic obliterator
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Serves 4. Takes 4 hours 50 minutes.
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PREPARATION – MARINADE
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Remove stems and seeds from ancho chile and guajillo chiles. Add ancho chile and guajillo chiles to small mixing bowl. Cover with boiling water and let sit for 15 minutes or until chiles soften. While chiles soften, use meat slicer to cut pork shoulder into strips ¼” thick. Cut strips into mini-strips short enough to fit in the tortillas.
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Add ancho chile, guajillo chiles, cumin, garlic cloves, Mexican oregano, orange juice, pepper, salt, and white vinegar to food processor. Blend until smooth. Add this mixture, pork slices, and bay leaf  to medium mixing bowl. Turn pork slices until they are well coated. Cover and let marinate in refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
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PREPARATION – ASSEMBLY
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Dice cilantro. Use mandoline to cut radishes into slices ¼” thick. Dice onion. Cut each limes into 4 wedges. Add oil and pork mini-strips to 1st large pan. Sauté mini-strips for 5 minutes at medium heat or until mini-pork strips brown.
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Brush both sides of the tortillas using the remaining oil from 1st large pan and 2 tablespoons more. Add  coated tortillas into 2nd large pan. Try to prevent tortillas from overlapping. Sauté at medium heat for 2 minutes or tortillas soften, flipping after 1 minute. You will likely need to sauté in batches. (Or microwave tortillas in microwave for 2 minutes. I won’t tell.)
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Put 2 softened tortillas onto serving plate, one on top of the other. Place pork mini-strips on top tortillas. Garnish with cilantro, radish, and onion. Place a lime wedge to the side. Enjoy. Zap any unappreciative guest.
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TIDBITS
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1) Chefs, whether working at restaurants or at home, live a rough-and-tumble life. They know a customer can go from being perfectly calm to an angry ogre out for blood.
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2) So chefs sometimes carry weapons. The weapon of choice has always been the trusty dual purpose chef’s knife; useful for defending themselves and for cooking.
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3) However, the much awaited sonic obliterator could possibly be available in the near future. You should think about acquiring one.
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4) Then as J. M. Essington of Boot Hill found out, some chefs are partial to guns.
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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 2

Posted on February 22, 2025 by pauldelancey

Hi there. I’ve made some project. As you can, it’s going to be two cats. I’ve sorted enough of the yarn to progress more quickly. However, the kit calls for me to use two nearly identical bits of yellow yarn. I just can’t tell them apart. I’ll see if I can get a better pair of eyes to tell the yellow colors apart. Then it’s full speed ahead

And here’s the inital progress.

02/22/25

 

 

 

 

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Phrase – Anal Blow Out

Posted on February 21, 2025 by pauldelancey

How many times has this happened to you? Your friends came over to your house for a friendly, low-stakes Parcheesi tournament. Within minutes, all of them sport faces contorted with enormous, deep-tissue frowns. Why, your place is a poster home for Pigsty Home. Clothes lie scattered on the floor. Indeed, most clothes don’t even make it to the closet. You let them fall to the floor wherever you disrobed. Last time, you undressed by the sofa. You didn’t want to feel constrained by shirt and pants while watching the show My Mother the Car.

The dishes in the sink resemble a Jenga version of Mount Everest. Flies buzz about them with a well earned feeling of total security. Boxes, oh my gosh, boxes litter the dining room. Moving to table there resembles a snow plow at work. You couldn’t have been bothered to throw them out. Beside boxes! You can never tell when you’ll need a good box.

And, wow, the number of discarded brown toilet-roll cores would put you in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. One would think you had a multi-day wipe-a-thon. Culinary psychologists describe such excessive and compulsive messiness with

TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE

Anal Blow Out

 

 

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Dear Healthy People

Posted on February 20, 2025 by pauldelancey

It’s depressing that this needs to be said so many times. We’ve heard so many times, “Have you tried …,” “Cheer up,” “but you look so good,” “stop whining,” “others have it worse,” and more. So, here is complete list of what to say to chronic sufferers.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

 

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The Second Great Latch Hook Project – Part 1

Posted on February 19, 2025 by pauldelancey

Hey! I’ve started a new latch-project. It’s early days so it does look like much yet. For some hateful reason, the makers of this new latch-hook fit jumbled all the yarn colors together. This made finding the right color, and thus the project much slower.

I solved this problem by buying DeWalt(tm) tool-sorting case. It was cheaper and better than the crafts sorters. It took a while, but most of the threads are sorted into their compartments. Beside, it looks spiffy.

And here’s my yarn-sorting case.

#SLHP #1

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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My Favorite Serious TV Shows

Posted on February 18, 2025 by pauldelancey

This is the sixth installment of my favorite, serious TV shows. I’m probably forgetting some great shows. Some I never saw.

Death Valley Days (really good)
Greek Myths
Hetty Wainthrop Investigates
Klaus
Madam Blanc Mysteries
McDonald & Hobbs
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Murdoch Mysteries
Rosemary and Thyme
Shintaro
Sister Boniface’s Mysteries
Vera

Watch and enjoy.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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