Last night was “National Night Out” here in Texas. Elaine & I went up to the Elmwood Volunteer Fire Department’s headquarters to check out what was going on. The sheriff came by (briefly – he had other stops to make) as well as one of the local constables. More cookies and snacks that I’d seen in a good long while.
Besides chatting about the various goings-on in the Department, there was the usual conversation about life in the outback; most of the fall flowers are getting ready to call it quits for the year and the inevitable discussion of the weather. When the ‘night out’ started, the temps were in the upper 70′s with very high humidity, and over the course of an hour, the temp must have dropped 10-12 degrees so it was quite pleasant.
All of this has a point (you were wondering, I suppose?): If you live in the Houston, Dallas, or Austin areas, be sure and put the next Elmwood VFD event on your calendar:
Saturday November 14th about lunchtime ( 11AM till about 2 PM). The Department holds a fund raising raffle and this year’s prize is a big screen TV – tickets are $3 each or two for $5.
Late Daily Reports
Just as a point of information, several people have told me they don’t like getting UrbanSurvival daily updates the next day. Seems that some ISP’s are caching UrbanSurvival updates for 24-hours (or longer). I assume you, Monday through Friday (and most Saturday’s seems like) I update the page before 8 AM – so if you are not getting today’s report TODAY then either call your ISP and complain or dump your browser cache and hit refresh.
The most common source of the problem seems to be AOL users. My suggestion? Use a current version of FireFox (or MISE) and get onto the net without using software from other folks. No telling what they delay – and you don’t want to miss things, right?
For your ToDo list: If you don’t get today’s report TODAY call up your ISP and scream at them and let me know what they give you for an excuse… (There is none, but ISP’s say the damnedest things when you tell them “No port blocking! No caching of content! – I pay for online access not for storage of old news!”
Beyond Indexing:
This one goes in the weird co-inky-dink file:
“I have two notable indexing or memory abilities. I also have the ultimate lottery-esque case of predictive numerology.
1) I am not a person who anyone would refer to as organized. I also hate to throw things away since the parts can be used for parts on a future project.
MY ABILITY- if someone asks me for an item, even if I have not seen it for 10 years or more; I can go right to it. Even if it is buried under multiple layers of other items or boxes. 97%+ accuracy unless someone moved it. Half the time I can find it in the dark.
2) I can remember the exact weather during any event in my life since about age four. It does not need to be a notable event. The requester simply needs to identify something about the event or how I was involved. (did you know it was mostly sunny with a slight on-shore flow in Oxnard, Ca at about 11am on Flag Day 1968. I recall needing a sweater that morning.
3) This is the craziest case of fate I have ever heard of. It concerns my Social Security Number which I received at the age of nine. I recall my application was rejected three times because of documentation questions. (Back then children did not routinely get Social Security Numbers. I needed one so my mother could put my name on a portion of her stocks using the “Uniform Gifts to minors Act”. ) My life must clearly be a case of predetermination. The Social Security Number that was eventually assigned to me consists of children’s birth dates in the exact order in which they occurred.
Hmmm…that’s nothing. Why I added up all the numbers in my social security number like they do in numerology and you know what? It gave me my IQ (2)!
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The UrbanSurvival Mall:
Peoplenomics This Week:
A Bad MoM, Real About Real Estate, and Depression Era Myths
Three parts to this week’s report: Part 3 will deal with the very worrisome report from HPH modelspace which was posted on the UrbanSurvival site on Saturday. Part 2 reviews some of the macro “myths” were that came out of the first Depression and how the systematic dismembering of those hard-learnt lessons set the stage for the great pain yet to come here in the second Depression; which brings us to Part 1 – a much larger/further housing price collapse, and massive (and rising) unemployment. It’s unfortunately simple when you look at implied housing prices resulting from even modest declines in aggregate loan-to-value (LTV) rates…
MyGroPonics
My commodity broker JB Slear and I have written a simple book to get you started on high density hydroponics. It’s an example of how someone with a little creativity, access to a few ‘dollar stores’ and willing to try out some new farming techniques can grow an amazing amount of produce sin a very small space – like even an apartment balcony (if it gets some sunlight). Sound interesting? It’s just $10 bucks here…
Maxa-Cookie Manager
No, when you tell your browser to ‘empty your cookies’ of web sites you’ve visited, it probably won’t get them all. Why? Because there is a whole class of ‘browser-independent’ cookies that will gobble up space on your hard drive, but more important is they will sneak out information about you without you being aware of it. Ever week I get emails like this one:
“Thanks again for the Maxa Tools recommendation, I never knew how much additional garbage gets attached every time I browse. “
Test drive it free by downloading it. To upgrade to full functionality will be $35 bucks. Is your privacy worth it?
Once you try it out, click the upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35 unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive ‘non-browser specific’ cookies. Bonus: You computer may run faster. I’ve taken 1,000 37,970 41,837 cookies off my machine now. It’s just amazing. (I might ask their CTO to add one more digit to the “Total deleted till now” window…)
Attn: Mac Drivers: MCM does support the Safari Browser, but that does not mean it is compatible with Mac OS. Maxa-Tools only support the Windows world….so far. Given Jens and the other engineers time…
Feeling Thorny?
Want to be a thorn in the side of the Old World Order? Simply click here and send a link to this site to everyone on your distro list…Nothing more dangerous than sharp, clear-thinking upstarts who ask a lot of questions, eh? Unless you believe WTC-7 fell over on its own, of course….
“Live on $10,000″ Updated
I’ve told you in the past to order my ebook “How to Live on $10,000 a year or less…” with the rationale that “We’re all going to live it shortly, anyway.“ Don’t know as you have looked lately, but the unemployment rate is up more than 3% since I wrote the first edition of that book and underpasses have never been more homely. Worth ordering? Just visit www.liveontenthousand.com or, click this little whizzie…
It’s an automatic download. It’s written in an information dense style: The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the cheap, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you have a little hustle left… Click here for the index and details.
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