I am headed for a week of barnstorming customers on the east coast of the US. I will try to keep an eye on the USA 193 situation, and post updates as I can. I am hoping against hope I am home in time to get a look at the shoot down. My posting bandwidth [...]
[02/19/08 - 0944 PST -- Henderson here - Looks like they are going to take the shot early Thursday AM GMT, I am on the road at the moment but if I have time I will post a follow up with the new target solution in graphic glory, as well as a run down on [...]
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Today we use data from Hardtack to take a closer look at the market in Phoenix. The Phoenix metro area saw explosive growth during the housing bubble, including developments and communities built where they honestly did not make any sense. In addition many of the properties were snapped up by California “Equity Locusts” looking to [...]
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Yesterday was a tough day in my world. It was the day that we ended the suffering of a dear friend and companion who had been fighting a long and losing battle. Through his 17 years he had been a steadfast companion, but in the past few months he had slowly been succumbing to chronic [...]
Once again it is time to turn loose a new set of statistics on a segment of our nation’s housing market courtesy of Hardtack. Hardtack now has been collecting data for about a year, and some trends are clearly identifiable in the data. Last time we were looking at details of the declines (and some [...]
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On the 13th of February in 1692, is a dark date for Scotland and for my ancestors. On that day British forces massacred families of the MacDonald and Henderson clans under authority of the King. This was in part to “make an example” of them for not being quick to pledge their loyalty to William [...]
Since one of the two authors of this piece in the Christian Science Monitor is a partner at David Boies‘ law firm (as in David Boies, Gore’s lead counsel in Gore v. Bush), I assume this article is serious and not a parody: The 22nd Amendment is often described as prohibiting an already twice-elected president, [...]
My sister send me an e-mail asking what I thought about the status of the US presidential elections right now. My reply was a bit lengthier than even I expected, but since my cohort Henderson has already posted his thoughts, here are mine. My original first choice was Giuliani, which I talked about at length [...]
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I am on the road for the beginning of this week, but I wanted to post some overview graphs of what is happening in the Sacramento housing market. As you can see there is quite a drop in the asking price per square foot listed in the MLS. You can click the chart above for [...]
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(graphic from Wikipedia showing normal sunspot activity) Our wonderful local star, the sun, is a active middle age star. Stars are unimaginably huge, and live billions of years. They are in essence gigantic nuclear furnaces, in essence a continuous hydrogen explosion kept in check by the massive size of the star. Sunspots are areas on [...]