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…and still one of the best: Hat tip to the Llama Butchers. ..bruce..
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2008 Election results revealed!
Here’s the news report: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early “We will be pretending to count votes and we will be running totals through out the night.” ..bruce w..
Magic and the Second World War
A fascinating article about how the British Army used a professional stage magician in their fight against Germany in North Africa: Maskelyn’s inventiveness was awe-inspiring. Another thing, you see – or rather the German’s didn’t see – was that out there in the hot, flat, dry there aren’t a lot of reference points. A tiny […]
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USA 193 Shoot Down Update [Updated]
[Update 0730 PST – Henderson] Some nice animation of the shot can be found here.. [Update 1945 PST – Henderson] Brief word from the news wires that USS Lake Erie took the shot as planned and reported a hit. Congratulations to the crew for executing their mission like professionals in spite of conditions that (from […]
Headed East
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 […]
Housing Price Trends – Phoenix Metro Area
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 […]
In Memory Of Tigger: 1990-2008
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 […]
Housing Price Trends – Sacramento County Detail
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 […]
