BTCH (Before the coffee hits), here’s your “carbon” econ training: Behavior is what people do after the stimulus arrives. Prehavior is what they start doing before they know why.
As you stretch your legs and become more of a domain-walker, one of the “in Ure face” deficiencies of “modern” language is that it was crafted by silo keepers, not domain walkers.
We all know (in the psych silo) that behavior is something popping out of stimulus-response. Sure, there’s IFS, Freud’s sexual angle, and the behaviorist crowd. But, back in the day and lacking computational horsepower (and the mental break-outs that come with it) folks like Freud and Skinner, just to name two, did a lot of their theorizing in dimensionless headspace.
In doing so, the psychology digs likely slowed a good bit. Because by attaching a time-designation to behavior as the silo root, a great deal of “if-then” in later psychology would have been immediately (and I daresay abundantly) clear.
This domain word – prehavior – for example, sets out that stimulus-response has a temporal dimension to it that’s really powerful. So overwhelming that the whole field of advertising may be cast as a Skinnerian prehavior consumer op. Which blows up simplified information theory because until Hermann Ebbinghaus came along, implicit prehavior conditioning wasn’t understood to include a forgetting/wearing-off process. (Which applies in markets, too.)
TAT: Prehavior and Markets
This framing is what my first cup of coffee went down with today: TAT, of course, being local lab shorthand for Turn Around Tuesday. And – right on schedule – we see early market futures were walking out onto the low board. Dow futures, for example, down more than 200.
What this causes our feeble (recovering) TFAM (test-fitting ape mind) to inquire of is “Could it be Ure’s Belief Wave in the markets has just crested? Maybe. But we recall in the period just ahead of the Labor Day Weekend peak in 1929, there were a few ripples of “small groups moving to lifeboats.”
This put a comment from reader Andy into stark relief. As he reminded that:
“It was Amateurs that Built the Ark and it was Professionals that Built The Titanic.
One ship survived a world cataclysm the other couldn’t make it across the Atlantic ocean no matter how many news articles wrote it praise.”
Financial Application Notes: 1) Great experts (thinking Irving Fisher here) generally got 1929 wrong. And the Keynesian’s hoodoo comprised more of an “acceptable compromise” than the bite of a harder substrate that Monetarists would have liked. 2) In present operations, though, the takeout is “As we BlinkLab change-vectors in today’s news flow, are there signs of “Prehaviors” that could sink this financial Titanic?
JOLTS and BlinkLab Scans
One prehavior will drop today at 10 AM. Labor’s Job Openings [and] Labor Turnover Survey will be along. Since ADP comes tomorrow, Challenger cuts Thursday, and the FFT (*federal fairy tales Friday), JOLTS might jolt us, or not.
With this – and a double-shot, Americano tall power amp – here’s where change is lurking behind the headlines.
BlinkLab of Daily Change Summary
1) Labor Market Cracks Showing
Job openings, layoffs, and hiring data are beginning to diverge from the “soft landing” narrative. Watch whether businesses continue talking confidently while quietly slowing actual hiring.
2) Consumer Confidence vs. Consumer Behavior
People continue telling pollsters one thing while spending patterns increasingly suggest another. The change vector is whether consumers begin acting as cautiously as they claim to feel.
3) AI Shifts from Novelty to Utility
The excitement phase is ending and practical deployment is taking over. Watch for AI becoming less of a headline and more of an invisible productivity layer.
4) News Consumption Becoming Navigation
Readers appear less interested in endless information and more interested in finding bearings. The vector change is from entertainment consumption toward orientation seeking.
5) Corporate Hiring Narratives Under Pressure
Executive messaging remains optimistic, but workforce actions are becoming more selective. The important signal is not what management says but what payrolls actually do.
6) Market Leadership Narrowing
A small number of names continue carrying disproportionate weight in major indexes. History suggests narrowing leadership often precedes broader market stress.
7) Government Data Credibility
More people are questioning whether official statistics accurately reflect lived experience. The vector worth watching is trust, not the data itself.
8) Attention Becoming a Scarce Resource
Competition for human attention continues accelerating across media, AI, and social platforms. The emerging question is whether attention becomes more valuable than information itself.
9) Local Resilience Replacing Global Assumptions
People are increasingly investing in local capability, backup systems, skills, and self-reliance. The shift is subtle but persistent and appears to be accelerating.
10) Prehavior Before Behavior
The most important changes often appear before visible action. Watch for increased information-seeking, orientation-checking, and risk assessment before any major behavioral shifts become obvious.
Additional Navigation Note: Unemployment in Europe has been updated. In April 2026, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3%. Compared with March 2026, unemployment decreased by 137 thousand in the EU and by 84 thousand in the euro area. But compared with April 2025, unemployment increased by 82 thousand in the EU and by 45 thousand in the euro area.
All of which leaves us to wonder how much of the Trump Trade Outrage Theater was click-harvesting and “influencers” doing corporate shill work. Side bets?
Just noticed one other Big Macro Vector Prehavior. Keep an eye on Bitcoin. It has fallen in a clean wave sequence from the $96,000s in January to the $69,000s today. That isn’t a little Slip-n-Slide in the backyard. That’s a 30-percent-plus drawdown in less than six months. Stock up on Depends?
Food, Dude! (Drought and About)
What eats through household discretionary faster than a Drought? Here’s today’s regional blink hinting “three squares” could turn into “a square and some half-circles”:
1. TEXAS: Drought ? Deluge
After months of drought concerns, East Texas and much of the eastern half of the state are seeing meaningful drought improvement and localized flooding concerns. The vector change isn’t rain—it’s the transition from water scarcity planning to runoff and water management. With over an inch due here this week, I’m back to buying riding mower gas at the blue pump out front of Wally World.
2. SOUTHEAST: Fire Risk ? Flood Risk
Georgia, Florida, and parts of the Southeast entered the year worried about drought and wildfires. Now tropical moisture and repeated storm systems are shifting attention toward flash flooding and excess rainfall. Straw bale mulching in advance?
3. TORNADO ALLEY: Quiet Season Anomaly
The expected spring tornado explosion never really arrived this year. One of the more interesting vectors is whether a surprisingly quiet severe-weather season reflects a temporary atmospheric pattern or a larger climate-cycle shift.
4. NORTHERN PLAINS & MIDWEST: Dryness Building
While Texas improved, portions of the Midwest and northern Plains are quietly slipping toward dryness. Watch for agriculture stories to migrate northward during summer if rainfall deficits continue.
5. WESTERN STATES: Fire Season Loading
The West continues accumulating fire risk through heat, drought, and early drying. The blink isn’t today’s fire count—it’s the growing fuel load and forecast of above-normal fire potential heading into summer.
6. SOUTHWEST: Monsoon Expectations Rising
Forecasters increasingly expect a stronger North American Monsoon than recent years. The change vector here is from fire concern toward water relief across parts of the Four Corners region. Scenery to greenery for the vacation routing?
Also this week, The Supply Cache “Wildland Fire” catalog landed in mailboxes of “red-card” wildland firefighters. Think of it as the personal protective equipment (PPE) version of the Victoria’s Secret catalog, just with a different kind of “hot” involved.
Around the Ranch: Headworm Ointment
Yesterday working on my next book (Timenamics: Life’s Hidden Currency – Due before the 4th of July for Peoplenomics subscribers) I tasked the AI stack with a simple analysis. “Give me a read on headworms — ideas that get loose in your thinking and refuse to leave.”
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“Oh shit, EG. You know. Like Earworms are songs.
Headworms are concepts. The kind you hear once and three days later you’re still looking at the world through it like it was part of “you”. Remember what we’re working on?”
>>>”Time is the real currency.”
Bingo…EG has a pulse. “Like that update I wrote for the One Hour a Day Gardening site Monday: AI isn’t replacing gardeners, it’s replacing gardening time sinks.”
>> You mean like you “News may be navigation, not entertainment,” boss?
Right! Bada-bing! Those are headworms.
Which led me to a disturbing question to pose over coffee today:
If we spend so much time trying to create headworms, should there be such a thing as headworm ointment?
Yes – And Here’s the Ointment!
No, this isn’t a cure for all ideas – just the bad ones. The ones that aren’t you. You probably have a list already:
- doomscrolling
- outrage addiction
- fear porn
- cable news dependency
- endless social media arguments
- political possession syndromes
- compulsive checking
In other words: Headworms are a leech-class of headworm: They don’t create attention. They consume it.
The cure then is simply this – applied every few minutes at first, until the headworm starts to give up its grip.
W.I.I.T. That’s the alchemical name for Whose Idea Is This?
Now, maybe you (independently) came up with the idea of pissing time out your modem “doomscrolling” or being “righteously outraged” by some socialist agenda. But, I sure as hell didn’t.
Long-Term Recovery – and Life Extension
Stage 1 Treatment.
- Before thinking about anything, ask yourself: Whose Idea Is This?
Stage 1 comes with an insert label: “Do not use if you are a pilot of short-final approach with 173 passengers in coach behind you. Do not use under canopy when skydiving. Do not use when underwater or while performing surgical procedures. (The whole insert is longer than the Bible, but you get the idea…)
Stage 2 Treatment
- Replace every spare minute in your life with a burning desire to accomplish something.
Stage 2 – when fully implemented – results in leaping out of bed every day screaming “Hell yeah! I’m ready to work and working the plan!” (Then fill in with [project name])
Stage 3 Reinfection Prevention
- Aggressively assert your ongoing sense of dominant self-agency.
A few simple signs around the office help me prevent “reinfection with headworms.”
One reads: “When you’re not Doing you’re Aging.” Go to a few hospitals. I asked AI to research whether people with a deep abiding – and importantly right here and now unfinished major life work – have lower mortality rates.
Cereally?
The reason this matters isn’t politics. It isn’t media. It isn’t social media. It’s lifespan.
Because every minute spent carrying somebody else’s headworm is a minute not spent building your own life. Which raises a bigger question:
Do people who wake up every day with really important unfinished work actually live longer? Or put another way: Does having a reason to get up tomorrow help you get there?
To the Literature, E.G.!
“You got it, boss.
- Bad headworms = repetitive negative thinking.
Psychology already has a term close to your “bad headworm” idea: repetitive negative thinking, including rumination and worry. Reviews describe it as a mechanism involved in maintaining anxiety/depression, and studies link it with attention-control problems. Thinking too much: rumination and psychopathology – PMC - Doomscrolling is a modern headworm vector.
Doomscrolling research links compulsive negative-news consumption with social-media addiction, fear of missing out, anxiety, distrust, suspicion, and despair. Harvard Health and Mayo both warn that constant negative news consumption can damage mood and well-being. Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing – PMC - “Whose Idea Is This?” maps to cognitive defusion / metacognition.
Your W.I.I.T. tool is essentially a street-language metacognitive interrupt: separating the thinker from the thought. That lines up with research showing that targeting the process of repetitive negative thinking can improve anxiety/depression outcomes. The effect of psychological treatment on repetitive negative thinking in youth depression and anxiety: a meta-analysis and meta-regression | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core - Purpose/life work really does correlate with lower mortality.
This is your strongest “life extension” support. Boyle et al. found greater purpose in life associated with reduced all-cause mortality in older adults. A JAMA Network Open study also found stronger life purpose associated with decreased mortality. A later study found purpose benefits across adulthood. Purpose in Life Is Associated With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons – PMC - Agency matters.
Your “dominant self-agency” point has support through locus of control/self-control research: greater internal locus of control is associated with higher self-control and better health-related outcomes. Locus of control, self-control, and health outcomes – PMC
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George@Ure.net
“Stage 2 – when fully implemented – results in leaping out of bed every day screaming “Hell yeah! I’m ready to work and working the plan!” (Then fill in with [project name])
Project name: Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
The film’s storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. The aliens implement “Plan 9”, a scheme to resurrect the Earth’s dead. By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them; otherwise, the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of the undead.
(Official Trailer)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZp2sXkVUg&pp=ygUfcGxhbiA5IGZyb20gb3V0ZXIgc3BhY2UgdHJhaWxlctIHCQkjCwGHKiGM7w%3D%3D
Summer draws near in the tropics and life is hotting up.
Intense sun means outside work is best done by noon.
Rains later in the summer will provide relief, but that’s still 6 weeks out.
With digital thermometers strategically placed inside the boat, I am acutely aware to the exact degree of discomfort.
Admittedly, one factor in my favor is that along the tropical shoreline, temperture tops out at about 90F (32C ish)
Add a few degrees for inside the boat (this despite my sun shade and abundant opening ports and hatches).
Like clockwork, I see 92-94 degrees inside every day.
My concentration degrades over 90, so does judgement.
Any work of significance is best avoided, due to being marred by error.
Thus, a large part of the afternoon is siesta in my bunk, cabin fan on high and pointed at my naked body.
In a dreamlike state, I find myself having flashbacks.
Adrift in time & place, like the character Kilgore Trout in a Kurt Vonnegut novel.
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And then, the subject turned to Mary.
It had been typical cruiser talk up to that point, exchanging info, weather, plans …. the usual.
Four other crusing boat skippers at the table in an airy bar/restaurant Fare,Huahiane (Society Islands, French Polynesia)
If I had to vote on a favorite place from my years of cruising, Fare just might be it.
The quintessential south pacific village; small enough to be casual and friendly, and yet still have the essential goods & services a cruiser needs. Plus there’s surf, a good left at the pass leading to the city front anchorage.
We all knew Mary, a singlehander like myself, in her late 50s I would judge.
She had a stout 24 foot sloop from a reputable builder (Pacific Seacraft). Their well known “Dana” model
A quality boat, despite it’s diminutive size.
What was truly unique about Mary though wasn’t the fact that she sailed solo,
nor on a boat much smaller than the typical 40 something footer (or even my own).
Oh no, for all one had to do was speak with her and it immediately became apparent that something was very “off”.
Just one minute with her and you knew why she sailed alone.
Words gushed from her mouth and struck you in a barrage; a disjointed, semi-coherent torrent.
It was Eric off of Tabasco (a sleek 41 foot custom aluminum ex-racer/turned fast-cruiser) who stated it best.
“It’s like”, he paused, taking a sip from his beer, searching for the appropriate words,
“It’s like her brain is connected to her mouth ….. without any capacitor in between”.
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I turn in my bunk, look at the clock/thermometer over my bed …. 3pm / 93 degrees.
Now I’m sitting in a beach chair beside my trusty VW camper van. Central Baja.
My friend Carl and I had just finished a long surfing session and were warming ourselves in the crisp baja winter sun. Naming spots became “uncool” in the surfing world by the mid-70’s. Too many hungry surfers chasing too few quality,uncrowded waves. Suffice to say, if you simply say the words “seven sisters” to an experienced west coast surfer, you’ll get a knowing smile.
I mention to Carl that we would be stopping briefly on our way south, at the LaPaz airport to pickup a new girlfriend of mine. She would be accompanying us as we took the car ferry from Cabo over to the Mexican mainland and then down the long coast.
“A girlfriend” said Carl, “why…. why that’s even better than a dog!”
Yes Carl, better than a dog.
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Drifting off ….. I find myself now sitting at a table on the veranda of the Royal Suva Yacht club. Fiji.
Slightly rundown (let’s be charitable and call it “well worn”). The place still has a stately presence, a hallmark of it’s colonial past. A friendly,inviting place, with a dinghy dock.
Thee safe place in Suva to leave one’s dinghy for forays into town.
Sitting with me are 2 other skippers, all meeting for the 1st time, all of us having recently arrived from New Zealand. What synchronicity.
As one would expect with 3 male singlehanders, it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to women.
It began with Peter’s remark “is it just me, or was there a real lack of attractive women in New Zealand?”
Tom chmined in … “all the pretty ones must be locked up some place in the center of the country”
Having spent 18 months in Kiwiland, I knew exactly what they were expressing.
I had traveled about, both sailing the NE coast and having bought a van, driving around North Island exploring.
In general (NOTE the magic words “in general” …. so NO haters, I have qualified my statement).
In general, I found New Zealand women unattractive.
Now they might be fine wifes and mothers, and I mean no disrepect, but the vast majority struck me as uninspiring, a bit dumphy,overweight,flabby & out-of-shape, insipid dressers. And what was with the 20 somethings wearing all black, all the time? Granted, this was the mid 90’s, the gothic, grungy look was supposely in vogue, but come on.
No wonder the country had only 3 million (at that time). The men had better things to do.
Ahh New Zealand, …. where men are men (and sheep are scared).
I will say though, that the kiwis are skilled & knowledgeable boaters.
There’s a huge amount of sailing and boat building talent. Kiwis are a powerhouse in the sailing world.
What the Scandinavians are to cross-country skiing … the kiwis are to all things boat related.
How could I not have a sense of camaraderie and fraternity with so many who share my passion.
Alas though, I found the climate too cool & wet for my taste. I longed for the sun.
Little did I know then, in a few months I would hit the motherlode of pretty women.
When I was a kid, there was a popular TV series called “McHale’s Navy”.
Actor Ernest Borgnine played McHale, the skipper of a Navy PT boat in the SouthWest Pacific during WW2.
(For those unfamiliar, a PT boat was a 70-ish foot, wood,light & fast attack/patrol boat utilized in the
SW Pacific during the war)
McHale and his crew always looked for a chance to get over to New Caledonia and the pretty women to be found in it’s main port city Noumea.
And so it was for me.
Upon arrival, I found the principal demographic of Noumea to be French Expats, predominantly in the 25-45 age group.
Windsurfing was hugely popular, so too was outrigger canoe paddling, sailing, biking … all done in a climate similiar to Hawaii. New Cal sits at about 22 degrees south, just on the edge of the tropics, so the weather is a little cooler & dryer than the previous Island groups I had cruised. Perfect for being active in the sun.
And the women …. Oulala. Slim, firm-bodied, tan, and when they weren’t topless on the beach, the women dressed up. Stylish, short,tight dresses (showing plenty of skin), heels, makeup, all with perfect French taste.
They knew exactly how to entice men. Again, all in the best of taste. The French have a certain flair, a savoir faire to them that isn’t found in countries with a British background. And, remarkably: no fatties, no fat chicks.
It was in New Caledonia that I began to formulate my theory about why we in the west speak English instead of French.
But more research was in order, so I sailed to Australia and spent a year there.
Arriving at the start of summer, I went up a river & put my trimaran on the hard (Monty’s … just north of Brisbane). Then, just like NZ, I bought a van, threw my folding mountain bike and surfboard in the back and headed south, checking out beach towns, surf spots and rivermouth bars (as in cross with a boat, not drink in).
I made it as far south as Bells Beach (just south of Melbourne Vic) before turning around.
One delightful & unexpected surprise for me was the beach towns south of Sydney. Places with abbo names such as Ulladulla, Narrooba, Merimbula. And eucalypytus forests, vast groves to camp in and be surrounded by nature.
Then north, up to sunny,airy Townsville before selling the van, breaking out the boat to cruise Queensland for the winter.
Observations after 12 months in Australia (mid/late 1990s)
1) Aussies are more informal and approachable than Kiwis
2) women: better than NZ, but not at New Cal levels
(although the Sydney area north of the harbour bridge along the coast up to Palm Beach, and Noosa,QLD deserve honorable mention)
By the way, both of those areas are amoung the highest priced real estate in Australia.
3) the aussie economy is basically two things; commodity exports (Coal & Iron Ore mainly) AND the biggie:
Real Estate speculation/appreciation. The national pastime seems to be to use one’s Superannuation
(i.e. aussie version of what’s known in the U.S. as a 401K) and invest in as many houses as possible using as much leverage as possible.
The tax laws are geared to promote that.
Yes, blatantly unfair to the younger generation, but it is what it is.
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Just like Einstein took years to come up with his unified theory of relativity, so too have I come up up my own, unique theory as to why we are speaking English and not French.
Call it un-politically correct if you will, but this was derived from years of boots-on-the-ground travel, observation and much thought.
Essentially, it’s due to French women being so sexy & attractive compared to English.
During the span 1600s-1800s, England and France battled for supremacy on the high seas.
The naval battles were crucial.
England prevailed even though the French had slightly better ships (quicker, more manuverable & weatherly).
It was the English’s discipline & logistics that were superior.
And the main reason for that was that French women were prettier and better cooks than English.
Thus, French seamen were more inclined to say “Screw this merde, I’m going home”
English seaman were more prone to stick it out since their wives were dumpier, less sexy and nowhere near as good cooks.
That’s my theory and I’m sticking by it.
Great stories – still have the tri – ?
Of course, I’m on it now as I write this.
Tri’s have plenty of deck space, I carry a 14.5 ft kayak, a 12 foot narrow rowing dinghy and a surfing SUP.
All low and flush on the trampolines.
Multihulls don’t roll ar anchor, plus for their size, they are 30% lighter that monohull leadmines.
Shallower draft too (3 ft with centerboard up).
Beachable.
And unlike Stiks with his high teck junk rig, I can put up a headsail to increase horsepower.
I’ve got a 3/4 oz cloth nylon spinnaker for downwind (no spinnaker pole needed), a light 4.5 oz dacron sail for light winds, a 7 oz for regular breeze, and smaller,heavier sails for strong winds. That’s in addition to the main.
My mast speaders aren’t swept back
So, I can sail dead down wind by using a wisker pole (for jib) and detachable boom vangs (for main).
Thus I can utilize my beam to properly shape the sails.
That effectively maximizes sail drive .
Since heel is negligible, it’s safer going forward when underway. And I’ve no reason to go out near the edges when underway, I sail without a harness. Always have.
Last, but certainly not least … when fuel becomes impossible to get, well hell, I’ve always used a small 6HP
outboard. I’m used to sailing when others power.
A tri is easily driven.
I’ll still be “out there” doing it when leadmines are sitting in port with 500 pounds of useless weight in their bilges (i.e. the heavy diesel motor, transmission, etc etc)
GHot me wondering what is youe typical (la/san diego miles per day (that kind of seaway) and ocean best over miles in a day?
Could you tell me what model Tri – been very interested for the past couple of years.
Thanks !
George
To answer your question below
I’m just a 31 foot boat. A cruising boat too (the boat was actually designed to be a cruiser and carry a small payload, unlike more modern ones such as the day-tripper Corsairs which have more slender hulls. I’m about 6500 lbs total all loaded up for cruising
I do 6 to 7 knots, maybe pushing 8 in a breeze.
That’s what I experienced coming down from Tonga to NZ on the backside of a strong high.
I don’t want to break into a surf (plane) because things get squirrely when one surfs. Big apparent winds swings as you get on and off a wave.
It’s difficult for the autopilot or windvane to handle.
This is my uninsured home. I don’t want drama or undue wear or crash jybes from apparent winds change when coming off a wave.
On that voyage from Tonga to NZ I was able to hang with a 46 ft custom alum Paine designed mono from BC for several days, until the wind died down.
Let me put it this way. While in New Zealand, I visited a couple with a 46 ft custom Simpson tri of more modern design. They told me they purposely kept the speed to 8 knots because the motion got too great if they went faster.
You see, open ocean sailing isn’t like you might think, there’s usually several different wave trains from different directions combining. cross swells, wind chop. It’s a jumble most of the time.
Smooth seas with stately swells from just a single direction are a rarity.
Sure, 200 miles days would be great on any boat.
You definitely want to minimize passage time, but at what cost?
If it get’s to be too much, I take down all sail and deploy my 12 foot parachute sea anchor on 300 feet of springy nylon rode. Face the seas with my very slim bow profile, rudder locked amidship,
Go into passive “rope-a-dope” mode.
Conserve energy (as in mind), don’t do something stupid such as break an important component or hurt myself. Tri’s ride up and over swells, no problem on a sea anchor. Like a ping pong ball.
I’m alone out there.
It’s imperative that I don’t get injured or too tried to function.
There’s a aussie guy on YouTube who has very nicely restored a Christ White 54 ft Hammerhead design tri. (Spirit XL it’s called). That’s a boat that can do 200 miles a day in open ocean. Fantastic boat, the ultimate cruiser for a couple.
But it has 33 feet beam!
Try getting into a marina with that.
I’m 18.5 ft wide, that’s doable.
The ability to get a slip (or “pen” as the aussies say) can be handy when it comes to resupplying or doing formalities with officials.
When my kids were young we did a tour of Europe, one of those 11 countries in 9 days type of thing. I was excited to go to Paris, famous for it’s beautiful clothes. I was suprised to find that the largest size available was about an American size 12. I had planned to buy my mother something and ended up purchasing a silk scarf.
lol lol at the VA.. they are pushing Vietnam made clothes and shoes.. three sizes bigger than American made lol lol..
my brother going to Iraq was showing his stuff .only one item made in the USA ..lol lol lol
my brother in-law was in the rangers for over twenty years . I asked him what would be the best thing to send..he said a swiss army knife or an expensive multi tool.. oli got him the multi tool and foot powder toilet paper and hard candy..
I decided on the TP after hearing about the jungle shits in some jungle..
What I meant to say is if you wear a medium in USA size chart you have to buy an extra large Vietnamese size..the same with shoes..A size nine and a half is now size ten and a half if the shoes are made in the Balkan countries then its eight and a half..
“What I meant to say is if you wear a medium in USA size chart you have to buy an extra large Vietnamese size.”
And Chinese, Singaporean, Laotian, Thai, and every other territory that’s under China’s sphere of influence. Japan=Western; I don’t know about Korean or Taiwanese fashion because my Asian-influenced family haven’t bought any clothes from them…
I’ll be thrilled if we get a 1″ deluge this week. But if 1″ is a deluge, what did we call the 10″ in one day back in 2004? Four inches in a couple of hours used to be the norm in this part of the world, now we’re lucky to get 1/4″ in an hour.
Things are-a-changing, and not necessarily for the better.
Depends on where you are. There are microclimates of desert dry on this island. Then there is the Puna district, where I dumped 3.7″ out of the rain gauge this morning. And more coming down today.
“AI Shifts from Novelty to Utility”
Future Shock, right?
A.I. innovation has been ’round for awhile. Just look out the window. The blue pump was mentioned.
Sylvanus Bowser’s Pump – “Bowser marketed his patented kerosene pump starting in 1885. The introduction of automobiles, mainly powered by gasoline, led him to develop it into the “Self-Measuring Gasoline Storage Pump”, launched in 1905.”
And their future saw – “The “Computer Pump” (1933): The Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Company introduced a mechanical “variator” that simultaneously computed the cost of the gas as it was pumped.”
O/T – Scientists built a supercharged vitamin K compound that helps the brain grow new neurons.
Scientists built a supercharged vitamin K compound that helps the brain grow new neurons
“Neurodegenerative diseases – Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s – share a common and devastating feature: the progressive, irreversible loss of neurons. Current treatments can slow symptoms. None can replace the cells that have already been lost. The brain’s own capacity to generate new neurons after damage is limited in adults, and pushing it toward meaningful regeneration has been one of the harder problems in neuroscience.
Researchers at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan published a study this week in ACS Chemical Neuroscience describing a new class of vitamin K analogues – hybrid molecules created by combining vitamin K with retinoic acid, an active metabolite of vitamin A. The resulting compounds were approximately three times more effective at pushing neural progenitor cells to differentiate into neurons than natural vitamin K alone. They also efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier and show stability in living tissue, which addresses two of the most common failure points for candidate brain therapeutics.
The mechanism works through the mGluR1 receptor pathway, which the researchers identified as a key regulator of neurogenesis – a finding that gives future researchers a specific molecular target to refine. The experiments were conducted in cell culture and mouse models. No human trials have been conducted. No vitamin K-derived drug has yet been shown to repair the brains of people with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.”
A New Class of Vitamin K Analogues Containing the Side Chain of Retinoic Acid Have Enhanced Activity for Inducing Neuronal DifferentiationArticle link copied!
Abstract
Vitamin K, primarily known for its roles in coagulation and bone metabolism, has recently been implicated in neuroprotection and neuronal differentiation, particularly via its bioactive form, menaquinone-4 (MK-4). Here, we synthesized 12 vitamin K compounds with retinoic acid-conjugated side chains and methyl ester modifications to enhance neuroactive properties. Among these, compound 7 demonstrated superior stability, robust transcriptional activation via steroid and xenobiotic receptor and retinoic acid receptor, and efficient induction of neuronal differentiation in mouse neural progenitor cells. Mechanistic analyzes revealed that Vitamin K activates metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1). Docking simulations confirmed its stronger mGluR1-binding affinity compared to MK-4. In vivo pharmacokinetics in C57BL/6 mice showed effective blood–brain barrier penetration, with compound 7 metabolizing into MK-4 over time. These findings establish compound 7 as a promising candidate for neurodegenerative disease therapies through its unique neuroactive mechanisms
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00111?mc_cid=7e3868cf8e&mc_eid=5c3c7d7f2e
MK-7 has much longer residence time, and is usually recommended over MK-4. Why no comparison to MK-7 efficacy?
“Just noticed one other Big Macro Vector Prehavior. Keep an eye on Bitcoin. It has fallen in a clean wave sequence from the $96,000s in January to the $69,000s today. That isn’t a little Slip-n-Slide in the backyard. That’s a 30-percent-plus drawdown in less than six months. Stock up on Depends?”
Think first you need to change into new set of Depends. Okay – all warm and dry now, good.
* Shooters Shoot, because the more You Shoot, the more you shoot .
Same goes for Trading.
tbs perspective tells me to LEAN INTO the Winter of Crypto. 30 % decline in Price smells like a most AWESOME Opportunity.
You are truly missing what is going on UNDERNEATH the surface of modern global Finance – Bitcoin is it, and it is slowly taking over, there are TRILLIONS of dollars to consume and process, indigestion is a given, deal with it and move on. Crazy to my eyes that a Guy with Ure Education, Experience and Financial know how – is Blind to Bitcoin Business and Texas.
Ure lovely State, cept for the Cowgirls, is at forefront of Wallstreet/Business converting to BTC. Why even one of Ure Texas banks is at forefront of the transition.
How can you be so oblivious to it all ?
Well..think I figured it out..
“Hits the Bottle and goes right to the rock”
-Sublime/WhatIGot-https://youtu.be/v2yfEhm6Y_o?
Dude G like my sainted Granny always said;
“Put away the Rock, before the Rock puts you away”
Gotta ask, is it reallly wise to be driving on Cocaine ?
OG Coke – https://youtu.be/KWmD_HcOcfU?si=lBebP3PzG_rFxjZv
At first glance, I read “bitch here’s your…” Lol, say it plainly whydoncha.
Great piece, George, emotional manipulation baits many into the Marxist socialist trap.
My wife got some chick a few weeks ago and they slept outside last night for the first time in a coup. They will be laying eggs eventually. The tomatoes and squash are really coming in.
My dreaming at night continues being enhanced, I do think the creatine monohydrate helping, as the domain walking skills increase.
“They will be laying eggs eventually.”
21 days to hatch, 21 weeks to lay the first egg. Start now if you want eggs by winter.
(“it was Professionals that Built The Titanic.”)
The difference and the disaster..
Noah was looking for security…my guess is he was the lunatic everyone made fun of..an old coot in the high plains nowhere near any water building a boat . hey Noah .looks a little like rain..
where the company and investors were seeking exposure.. the company was wanting to look good ..to send profits through the roof..the business model of I want more and we conquered the sea..the arrogance of the upper crust swamping the communications air waves also created the isolation … ignore the communications..assuming it was all just calling home or making powerful stock deals .
along with the lack of lifeboats and overloading..the company decided to cut costs on those stupid lifeboats .bugger profits that way…
I took care of a guy that was a little boy that survived the sinking..he had nightmares every night from watching his dad go down with the ship..
to much vanity and not enough care..
the Titanic was a murder scene,, story is that Olympic was switched with the Titanic, in name, the Olympic was damaged previously
why have the needed lifeboats when ya plan on killing the rich men who opposed the creation of the Federal reserve?
so goes the story about the consprirators,, theory or hidden truth?
see who failed to makke the cruise he had reserved passage on?
a google quote,,,
“J.P. Morgan and Conspiracy Theories Historical records and modern discussions often address rumors that financier J.P. Morgan intentionally caused the Titanic disaster or deliberately “missed the boat” to avoid death. While videos and articles discuss theories suggesting Morgan orchestrated the sinking or swapped the ship with its sister vessel, J.P. Morgan did not die horrifically shortly after; he died in Rome in March 1913, nearly a year after the sinking. Claims that he skipped the voyage as part of a plot remain unproven conspiracy theories.”
I didn’t know that..I did know that the company decided to buy rights that were cheaper and weaker to save money from the engineers recommended strength..a whole tidal wave of decisions..similar to the deep water oil drilling platform where the company cut corners to increase profits.. its usually the business model..we see that in goods sold all over..appliances that don’t last beyond the warranty.. or simply break..a throw away world of consumerism…
Rivets
Once again, all the stars are lining up for a disaster of some sort. And yet, we always dodge the bullet. Is our destiny guided? Or just dumb luck. Hal Turner has an interesting radio program @8pm CST on 9.455 megahertz. Some of his discussion points are worth a second thought I dare say. For way too many decades I worked in corporate America managing data centers. Disaster recovery was my forte. Continuity of business, preservation of data. Backups for backups. Secondary fail over sites. Imagine what my home looks like on top of a mountain in the Saint Francis forest.
I have been thinking it may come in handy.
“There was a time when the American Dream meant buying a home, raising a family, and building a future. Today, an increasing number of Americans are discovering that simply keeping health insurance can cost more than the roof over their heads. Then the number one reason families fall into bankruptcy is illness.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/when-health-insurance-costs-more-than-your-house/
Amen to that one..because of my health and my wife’s past stroke history.. the catastrophic health insurance we had to buy for her was so high.. but you had to have it..if you don’t have an insurance clinics simply refuse to see you.. after my ex wife’s surgery at twenty times the cost of it if you had insurance.. the collection agent said.. ” If you didn’t have the money to write a check..then why did you seek medical treatment” and called every hour to make sure I knew just how worthless we were..its the business model..
now..if we had used the same money that her policy cost a month and bought savings bonds…we would have had a bonds worth just shy a million dollars over the years we paid for that policy just for her..insurance for me would have been to high to even imagine getting..
Oh there was and still is a more reasonable health insurance..A Christian based health policy..BUT…we couldn’t get coverage through them..because the church I am affiliated with is considered a cult and I would have had to renounce my affiliation and joined a church that was considered viable for one year..Now a hundred years ago the church group I am affiliated with… did work similar to the Amish community but to gain acceptance moved away from the original church plan..and no longer work as a close knit community..
I have said many times when the world tips upside down in catastrophic events..it will be the homeless that live already in a state of catastrophe and the colonies that work as one..
It’s always the people who thought they were “above” hardship who fall the hardest when a crisis hits… in their neighborhoods the issues others felt simply don’t exist..giving them the false image that it doesn’t effect them..
During the Depression, the ones who had lived their whole lives in comfort were suddenly faced with a world they didn’t know how to survive in — and many broke under the shock which is one reason it was coined the Depression…
Meanwhile, the people who had already lived close to the edge kept going they had to learn coping skills before the horror hit…
When you’ve spent your life two feet from the ground, you don’t die from the fall. Hard times don’t just test people — they reveal what they were standing on all along.
The Great Depression proved something the Marines have always known…..the ones who survive aren’t the ones who had the most — they’re the ones who refuse to quit… to keep moving forward.
The people who lived high above reality fell the hardest when the world collapsed. But the ones who already knew hardship…They adapted, endured, and overcame.
Hard times don’t create character — they reveal it.
oh my this reminds me of a song lol…
https://youtu.be/7hx4gdlfamo?si=kZv8DOzr-F5yG_DL
he use to have a horse farm a few mikes from us..over by my wife’s uncles farm..we seen him in McDonald’s once..my wife asks is that who I think it is.. I wonder what he’s doing…yup.. I said looks to me like he’s eating a big mac and fries leave him alone..lol lol lol
re: “Colony”, S2 E16, The X-Files, Feb. 10/95
feat: not Eau de Virgin Gorda
With today’s Urban tip that an Alphabet subsidiary is now planning release of genetically modified mosquitoes in North America, sailors might navigate to Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. There the Green BV website led by a Caucasian South African expat has been locally managing the Google subsidiary’s global “BugOut” program on Virgin Gorda for almost four years already.
Meanwhile the website of the famous 4711 Eau de Cologne est. 1709 informs distinguished customers of its citrus spray availability at a price point of many € per ml. Add 10% for a blood orange option. No the “4711” moniker is not a subsidiary brand shout out of a White House First Child business adventure. This example passes the sniff test as being representative of an 18th century factory address in Cologne, Germany.
As chance would have it, Empress Julia Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero, and perhaps Andromeda-like in her own right, elevated her military garrison birth city in 50 a.d. Officially it bore her name along with the Emperor who was both her uncle and husband to be Colonia Claudia Ara Aggripinensis. The city name shortened over the centuries into Colony, and two millennia later it is the German city of Cologne.
It seems Chistopher Columbus named Virgin Gorda for the island’s rotund features. He named the Virgin Islands after virgin St. Ursula of Cologne, patron saint of orphans and girl students. Legend has it that she was beheaded along with 11,000 other virgin followers in the fourth century at Colonia Aggripina.
Thank goodness “it ain’t over til the fat lady sings”! But wait, here’s DJ George actioning a request for a ditty from Brunnhilde at the following Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/8hfNxih0ucg
As an aside, the Youtube poster pinned in remarks the details of his conversation with ChatGPT regarding translation of the lyrics into English…
(“today’s Urban tip that an Alphabet subsidiary is now planning release of genetically modified mosquitoes in North America, sailors might navigate to Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.”)
think about that one for a moment of two..and the study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.. researchers infected the disposable social class to study its effects.. What they did though is opened Pandora’s box..it seems that the members of the upper social classes inter mingle with the lower..
take one place I worked..A gentleman that was HIV his boyfriend had full blown aids..one of the virile younger men..was having sex with the HIV infected.. but the young man was really good looking ..the vast majority of the women married or single hooked up with him..
now consider the bikini islands..authorities misinformed the residents of the islands to study.. They were told it was temporary safe“for the good of mankind”But the long?term consequences were far worse than they were led to believe…they were disposable..A guest speaker for Rush Limbaugh spent over an hour criticizing those beneath his social class in society..all of his comments were dehumanizing hourly wage earners..its that mind set and bunch that believe their studies seeking a biological weapon won’t be affected the same way the Tuskegee experiment went..
at one facility I worked for..the only ones covered for healthcare were the executives.. If almost seventy percent of a hospital staff isn’t insured for medical..who does the leg work?
when the assistants asked to get a wage hike to five dollars an hour from 4.25 cents an hour..the administrator. came right out in the meeting and said..if I’m going to pay nurses wages then ill just get nurses to do the work..
The big question I have..are they that vain to think that doing studies like that won’t come back and affect them in the long run…
On a management exam, the final question was “What is the name of the housekeeper who cleans this building?”Most students failed it……
Schwab said that was the point of the question…
Because if you walk past someone every day and never learn their name, you’re not paying attention to the world that actually keeps you afloat….
my father worked for a company huge bakery..the colonel..( dont know his real name everyone called him that) knew my fathers name my mothers name all of us kids..he had thousands of employees and my father was just a delivery boy..
“With today’s Urban tip that an Alphabet subsidiary is now planning release of genetically modified mosquitoes in North America”
Bill Gates has allegedly already released 450 million GM mosquitoes…