No, you don’t need to know Morse Code to be an effective ham radio operator. SKN comes on New Years Eve. It’s “Straight Key Night.” We’ll get into that, in a second. First a pitch for learning Morse code. Light signaling (silently), having another way to communicate in event of a stroke or voice stifling … Read More
A couple of items on the stock market, best taken visually. One is the overall view of how periodic advances and declines in the stock market line-up in similar ways. Nice way of saying “All collapses are self-similar” to one degree or another… OK, so.. When is “The Top” Here? This is a “What number … Read More
An economic Depression is on the way. We don’t like to think about it, because it’s much easier to listen of the “ siren song” of politicians. It’s our great human “power of denial” that just won’t let us think anything bad can ever happen to us. Prepping, a movement this site helped “found” when … Read More
Had a case of the “Earthquake Tireds” today. I’ve written about this in the past…and said I’d mention it next time it happens. Here one of those “self-learning” things that happens if you live long enough. You start to notice odd things that happen, usually in the same order, time after time. Like Earthquakes. The … Read More
Hey there, Big Spender. This is your day! (Or, is it?) Since this is a half-day in the markets and since nothing much in government is moving, why not spend some time on spending? Besides, we’re all sick-to-death of political BS. So how about we pencil-out a rational approach to this Black Friday thing? Seems … Read More
We had our first good-sized storm come through Texas earlier this week and it brought to mind a laundry-list of winter storm items that we do as a matter of course. Life in the woods, and all that… If you’re new to home ownership (617-thousand homes were sold in the USA last year), here’s a … Read More
Won’t continue to worry the “digital ascension” since digital zombies don’t care. But, old man Ure know what the phone-zombies really like is money and toys. And, it’s getting to be the time of year when those “feelings of love” are totally worked-over to get the largest payday come the end of December. I’m not … Read More
Bad news for you, but we might as well bring this up on a Sunday, right? The rumblings that led into the “rapture” began in 1989. That’s when Motorola introduced the MicroTAC personal phone. The following year, GTE would bring it to market and bundled as a “flip phone.” But the real rapture begame in … Read More
Overs the years, I have gotten a ton of questions about the UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics.com websites. One of the most common is “How does one go about building a good quality website?” It is not particularly difficult, but before we delve into it, let’s make sure it’s the right move for you. Website ownership is … Read More
I bet you don’t know too many people who roll out of bed at 4:00 AM, even on Sunday, and are seriously at work within minutes, do you? I mean besides the one who is offering you these “insider notes for a high output life”? Being successful in life is not particularly difficult. Must be … Read More
Carrying, as I do, one of the genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, there are many, many things done around here to keep that risk “managed” – as much as one can. That includes the usual: Working on “mental projects” a lot. Reading voraciously, though that’s as much for pleasure as anything. Benchmarking reaction times, regular … Read More
Do MBA’s have heroes? You bet. Two of mine are Tom Peters and Robert Waterman whose 1982 book In search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies” more than any other single factor are what “turned the corner for me. Led me out of chasing down the news and chasing management skills. It was … Read More
Recitals: Nothing in this note is to be construed as “medical advice.” This is informational, about something called low level laser light therapy. Since I have been using LLLLT (also known as LLLT, a/k/a/ photobiomodulation) I have personally experienced health benefits including the virtual elimination of eczema which I’ve suffered through for 70-years… Background: Down … Read More