No, this isn’t an “I told you so!” column.  It’s a reminder that reading and watching the news – plus keeping our ears to the ground – is done to keep us one step ahead of disaster. July 16th, in my report Prepping for Lockdown 2.0 – Markets in Denial? I told you we had … Read More

Two more chapters of my book “Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” today. In this one, we talk about postponing death. Lots of strategies to be kicked around… Sorry if the page is a bit slow to load. Not a server issue. Just a lot of words and charts. 14 graphics, and about 9,700 … Read More

Enjoy the going-nowhere market.  Because while the early trading hype was a gain of 160 on  the Dow at the open and another 15 on the S&P, we were in about this position in the Monday preopen. Then the market fell on its ass. Down 97 on the Dow and 8-something on the S&P. Although … Read More

We do, I assure you, live in a confused and ‘foxed-uniformed vertically‘  world.  Hyper-complexity promised to solve all our problems.  But, sitting in the Outback of East Texas, “confusionality” is abundantly clear. For example, when you decide to build more damns for hydro power and exporting of water to SoCal, what happens?  Fish runs shrink … Read More

We depart from our usual hand tools and hands-on power tool enjoyment this weekend to begin work on a seminal project:  The ultimate ham radio wire antenna system. Long-term readers of this site will remember that we’ve already done one spin on an improved HF antenna.  Called Super Antenna iV it offered better performance than … Read More

Took only 4 1/2 hours.  Peoplenomics is on a new server, but till the DNS changes settle down, maybe 48 hours, there could be some net-induced janky. Moved all the subscriber data, was a SQL-slinger, the data move was flawless with another hat tip to my pal Gaye  for having a faster (and less prone … Read More

Reader Note:  We will be moving to a new server farm today.  So from noon (CDT) today until I’m done (take it any way you will) the Peoplenomics website may have a few unreachable moments… We’re not leaving.  Just rearranging the digital furniture. Report now? A twisted tale of future studies, dream worlds, and computers … Read More

Reader Advisory First:  Peoplenomics.com will be doing a site move from noon Saturday to [whenever we get things perfect].  So please expect some delays as the change of DNS takes time to meander around the web.  Thanks! Facts Matter, Actually It has been pretty clear to us that a boatload of “commercials” may be selling … Read More

Our Discussion of Mental Plug-Ins is more useful, but since the quake is more likely to come up in watercooler talk, here’s the quake map from the 8.2 off Alaska overnight.  Screen snag shows this is far away from Anchorage and over a ridge of mountains from Bristol Bay. Made headlines around the world, such … Read More

Another chapter in the next book “Packing to Die:  The Suitcase between your Ears…” Today, we will look for those easy to use tools that can not only keep you “thinking young” but – special bonus here – if you ever have to do time in solitary confinement – you can actually look forward to … Read More

I mentioned in this morning’s column that housing starts were collapsing in a federal report out Monday. However, there’s no real clarity on where that’s coming from:  Could have been the spike in lumber prices (since passed) or it could be the change in demand from declining birth rates, or maybe something as simple as … Read More

We considered the headline “Hong Kong Woes Slow as Schmoe’s Doze…” but figured it would be too much for this hour.  Instead:  Hang Seng Sunk is closer to it. If you flip over to the ^HSI chart on Yahoo (here) and click onto the 1-month view, you’ll see why we’re a little nervous:  The 29,261 … Read More

Whew!  Week is off to a weird start – since most of this morning is Adventures in Wo0-Woo. 90-minutes to the opening, the Dow was down over 100 but that’s totally understandable.  No one really knows what the f**k is going on, anymore.  Americans’ optimism about country’s direction over next year drops nearly 20 points … Read More