Wednesday morning get braced: the Consumer Price Index (inflation gauge) will be released. Sure, this morning is quiet and all. But many pieces are moving just below the surface. Dow futures down 150-ish. Like Elon Musk blowing out of the Twitter acquisition this weekend. As we’ve been following this, looks to us like there are … Read More
Who needs Russia and Ukraine when drought is coming and famine is in the wings? As so often happens, our political tools in office are trying to fix the barn after it’s on fire and the horses are gone. The world needs water – because without it, kiss off crops and light the fuse of … Read More
Famine is coming. Yeah, sure, Roe, Wade, demonstrations, hype. Have fun with that. The larger reality is there’s no caloric payoff to any of it and damn few people will have noticed the recent Newsweek story Gathering Storm of Famine Looms Over Many Nations. What Preppers Miss Most preppers I know have never done a … Read More
If you have ever tinkered with any kind of serious welding gear, there’s one simple – inescapable fact – that we can’t get around. Stuff’s heavy! You need a cart. Now, not everyone has a poured and polished leveled concrete shop floor in their home. Out here in the woods, my shop is a “redneck … Read More
Oh, boy. This morning’s report will be a “two cupper” – and maybe three cups – if you study the ideas, problems and pictures of today a little bit. There is so much going on around here it’s, well, amazing. This writing less and doing more is turning out to be most agreeable. We’ll get to … Read More
George went domain name shopping this week because two pretty good ideas have come along, and subscribers get a first look. It all comes as a spontaneous answer to a problem vexing all of us: What productive something can replace social media? This is not an entirely wasted effort, though it will take some marketing … Read More
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
I’m writing another book – a novel this time – and you’ll find the research done for this one very interesting. You see, it’s a novel about what happens when Anti-Aging medicine really pays off. How does that friendly government of ours go about rooting out fraud on the one hand while, at the same … 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
You may not be old enough to remember the term “SNAFU” but it meant “Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.” With variants for the “eff-word” more common. As another year begins, we see SNAFU but have concerns this will be part of the larger “reality breaks” implicit in the Multi-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. It’s … Read More
Today we unveil a new business plan – on a project near and dear – and a bit of analysis on what the Fed has been up to. With both the H.6 money stocks report and trying to put a “foot in the crypto camp.” Some look-ahead on both is definitely in order. Then there’s … Read More
Reader Notes: Because high frequency ham radio antenna design is maybe not your “thing” it’s a good idea to read the Saturday column (Part 1) to grasp some of the underlying technical angles. There is one general shop tool note at the end of this article. If you’re not a ham, that may be more … Read More
We’ll get to this morning’s dollop of daily data droppings in a second. But first thing up is an important reader “heads-up” on how to read the pending UFO report. Consider yourself having dropped into Ure’s Old Man Lab in the woods for a “quickie briefing” on trans-dimensional Physics. Which is what the report is all about, whether … Read More