Everyone has a messy shop, to one degree, or another. I’m just more guilty than most because of my youth. See, my Main Hobby was ham radio. When you work on a radio, you do whatever repairs and adjustments are needed. Then seamlessly slide into playing with it. There’s no logical “break in the action” … Read More
Mood-setting and motivation: Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply | AP News Let’s talk first about Design Creep. Although we have yet to eat a single plant from our 20-foot by 10 add-on Garden Room off the recording studio, it has sure been a pleasure in terms of “build.” Honestly, some of the … Read More
My discussion (premature to the narrative) of a 55 MPH speed limit in Friday’s Urban column caused some consternation. “Oh, Ure has sold out to the Dark Side!” and sentiments like “Ure’s an idiot – we did that already…” we typical. My intent was not to disavow speed. I’m an adrenaline junkie from the get-go. … Read More
We can frame today’s report this way: “Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is an intelligence that is produced from publicly available information and is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement.” Although Life under Joe (Biden, not Stalin, at least not yet) seems superficially … Read More
War? Victory Gardens? Biden Gardens? We’re in the timeframe when a “survival garden” such as we began working on in November of last year, may not seem so far-fetched, after all. The parts have continued to roll in for the highly experimental automatic veggie garden. Another small piece of the project this week was the … Read More
Had the weather stayed a bit warmer Saturday, I would have wired up a solar panel, charge controller, knife switch, and the on-demand 12 VDC water pump for the rainwater fresh H2O catchment system. Made me remember to write down some notes about parallels between home ownership and living on a sailboat as I did … Read More
Where we ask “What will constitute “value” or “storehouse of value” 20-years from now? Once upon a time, this was such a simple damn question. But, with the rate of change changing and technology obsoleting whole segments of “work” – we have to raise our heads up once in a while and ask the obvious … Read More
Ure’s Manifesto time. Since little is going on in the financial world (yes, market may decline, but this ain’t advice), we think it’s time to briefly consider how WWM (Wrong-Way Media) has botched its attempted dump of their “Insurrection” narrative on the public. Since our Reality is data-based, a 3-year clip of Google Trends highlights how … Read More
Two items to go over today. One is the visiting firefighter learns cutting and welding. The other is a longish discussion of tool use. To hell with Covid. I have a bigger problem: Messy Bench Disease. MBD. One of the continuing problems around the ranch – and my office – is that I have a … Read More
We sat out the manic Monday market decline – and furious rally that followed Monday – for a number of reasons: Statistical and Medical, mainly. Lot of anti-aging notes at the bottom of this morning’s column (see ATR below). We’ll do the medical in the Around the Ranch section. But, as to the statistical? The … Read More
Not too long ago – two or three years, was it? – I picked up a half-dozen 55-gallon drums up in Tyler, Texas. It was a deal I couldn’t pass up: $5 bucks each and they’d already had a preliminary rinse-out. Finally, with the old burn barrel sporting a gaping (coffee can size) hole where … Read More
Reader Note: Be sure to read the ATR section today! Humans know a hell of a lot more about the future than they’ll generally let on. All because we don’t teach people: There are lots of ways to “see future” These methods can be broken-apart and assembled into a logical order. When you do so, … Read More
Reader Note: This is just one aspect of a more complex discussion about “How the Future Gets Here” that’s in prep for our Peoplenomics.com subscribers tomorrow. But, since the Economic Fractalist figures we may have a few days left before the fractal math goes critical on us, a prediction worth considering, we will share a bit more … Read More