Lefties
Daily Ramble
“Wow, I’ve never eaten in a room with so many lefties,” I proudly whispered to the colleague on my right. We were a group of 20 individuals lunching together, the vast majority holding forks in their left hand. Since birth, I’ve been a lefty, but I’d never participated in a social setting where more than a few in the group were left-handed. By having this many lefties gathered around a table, my leftie brethren were breaking the bell curve of left-handedness, defying the statistical odds. What luck to find so many others who understood my plight!
“What do you mean?” he said, giving me a confused look, “I’m right-handed.”
“You mean you eat with your fork in your left hand, but you’re right-handed?” I asked.
“Of course!” he replied with shock as my cheeks grew red. Then he laughed, drawing the looks of more colleagues who’d grown curious about our exchange. He shared the experience with a few others who chuckled, and my cheeks did their best to imitate a beet. By this time, of course, I’d realized my faux pax — in Portugal, eating right-handed meant fork in the left paw and knife in the right. Eating is always a two-handed sport in Portugal, but fingers are unacceptable instruments of battle. The dominant instrument is, therefore, the knife to backstop the fork’s action, not the fork, as is the case in the US, where I’d been raised.
It wasn’t until eating together this weekend, some two years after the business luncheon embarrassment, that the topic came up between my wife and me. Over lunch at a restaurant, I was running out of topics to discuss when I lit on the cultural difference in eating habits. Despite countless meals together, neither of us had brought up the oddity of sharing the same fork hand while eating. I was pleased to see that her shock was as great as mine when she learned the dastardly truth — our dominant hands were opposite, but we ate using the same hand! So shocked that she fled to the internets for proof, not believing me. Embarrassment, like misery, likes company.
I write all this intending to enlighten both my American and Portuguese readers that their tableware habits are not shared…and hoping it’ll save you a bit of face when you’re on the opposite side of the pond.
Favorite Things on the Interwebs Today
Winning: eating tasty local pizza and supporting the development of the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin Price Prediction
Weekend: $39.2k - $46k
Today: $39.6k - $46k
Tomorrow: $39.6k - $48k
The Bitcoin ice is still thin here. We’re tentatively bottoming, but we need to see the price stabilize for a couple of days above $42k before we can consider this a successful bullish pivot. The Elon-led havoc of the weekend is slowly starting to recede in the review mirror, but the ripples in the pond have not settled all the trading boats in the water. Looking at the onchain data, we can see that the exchange inflows that had picked up over the last week are slowing, but the trend definitely shifted. For the first time, investors were selling their Bitcoin at a loss to exit the market. That’s not the type of behavior we want to see for a healthy bull market, BUT it’s also the type of behavior that signals a bottom in a serious bull market correction. The last bull market saw six dips greater than 30% and as much as 38%. We’re currently sitting at a 35% pullback from the $65k peak. Again, my primary focus is how the week closes. Above $46k, and we’re still golden. Until we get to the weekly close, I don’t want to see $39k lost on a daily close, though the price may go lower intraday.
Bitcoin Q & A
Q: Why is the media telling the story of where Bitcoin’s electricity comes from but not where the electricity comes from to power Tesla cars?
A: I don’t know.
If you do, please share.
Thanks for reading,
Kent
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