Sex-Monkey Monday: Mania, Memorial, Militaria, More

We covered the groundwork, for what is threatening to be yet-another public health bureaucrats’ globalist-backed power-grab. Back in July 2021 we wrote: “Leaving us to wonder “Is this the short everyone should have seen coming, or does Savior Joe have a plan to pull it out?” That’s before we get to MonkeyPox, though:  Monkeypox outbreak fears as … Read More

Blame Biden for Gas Prices, Diesel Shortages

While Bitcoin looks to sucker-in more of the “buy the dips” crowd, and prices early remained planted around $30,000, we are instead waiting for Markets to wake up to the no growth model and reprice accordingly. But the BIG story is how the Biden administration continues to kill America’s future.  It is almost as though … Read More

A Quick Ham Radio Note

8:55 AM/ 14:55 UTC just worked YB9GDP on 14.021 CW. That’s Munawiril down in Lomok Timur, Indonesia. The reason I mention this (for preppers) is to demonstrate a couple of things:  First, his code speed (hand key) is 16 words per minute.  Easy copy once you lock on to his “fist.” But the second point, … Read More

Collapse-Athon: Stocks, Bonds, Cryptos, Food, Energy….

Yeah – we’ll get to the Producer Prices in a minute.  But first a general survey of how well things are not going for America right now. Phony Money and Weather Drive We might as well start with the overnights elsewhere and the future’s pricing here because – as you know – the whole premise … Read More

Workstations for All!

The companion to the mini ebook “A Life of Gods” on time and task management is unveiled this morning.  This one deals with workstations and workflows.  My thinking is that once something shows up as a task, we need the “power tools” to dispatch it to the “done list.” A good bit of theory is … Read More

SunshopTalk Sunday: Prepper Bug-Out HF Manpack Radio School

There you are.  One morning, America is going along all normal (like) and then suddenly flick.  With nothing more than the eerie sounds of silence (with a nod to S&G) we pass back into the 1800s as a space-based weapon of unknown origins takes down the grid and the internet. Calmly, you survey the panic building … Read More

Testimony of Product Tester 1078

Sometimes, it’s hard to write directly about “what the data says.”  Because, many times, people will not accept ‘raw data.’ Our socialization programs us to think a certain way.  It’s hard to “bug out” of the dominant social paradigm. Occasionally, though, bugouts happen – not due to any special onboard biasing. It can arise because … Read More

ABM: The Monday Size-Up

ABM = A Boring Monday.  But it’s a four-day workweek for some… This is one of those mornings when the active thinker, cursed with the inquisitive mind, hates writing.  There’s just not much going on.  Yet. The “Schedule” is the news. The Bigger War Game The Ukraine war has been reduced to body count claims … Read More

Philosophical Friday: Markets, Covid Crazy, Google Leads

“The time has come”, the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax – Of cabbages – and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot – And whether pigs have wings.” From an earlier Jabber-Writer. Today, in lieu of news, some useful thinking points. Understand, many people … Read More

Markets: Critical Day – A Client Memo

We are waking up to what COULD – before the day is out – Turn into a real bellwether trading day. The reason is simple:  With the close of last week’s action, we were AT our 85-Day Moving Average in our Aggregate Index work, but there have been other indicators, as well. I mentioned a … Read More

Shoptalk Sunday: Sheet Goods, Pop Rivets, Cleco’s

This was a really busy week, around the old “trailer in the Outback.”  So, before we get into the nibbins of actually making, a quick photo tour of what we were up to this week. For one, we managed to get the leftovers (tin scrap) turned into a reasonable raised bed garden.  Going from this: … Read More

Chewing on News – Fingernail Friday

Like an idiot, I failed to play the end of month write down in markets Thursday.  Long story, but the short of it is:  Must be present to win. Which means no running tractors to offload a yard of prime raised bed composted soil if there’s a trade on.  Unwatched money tends to wander off.  … Read More

The “Unclouded” Future

There is a business model battle going on in plain sight that will largely determine our computing future.  It’s one that I touched on in my book Broken Web: The Coming Collapse of the Internet in 2012. Even now, the battle is far from over.  However, enough companies and institutions – not to mention regular … Read More