tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post7814474276970371997..comments2024-02-25T08:16:25.546-08:00Comments on Exurban Nation: Whistling Past the RegisterRob Dawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-49642905665876865352013-12-14T20:25:51.040-08:002013-12-14T20:25:51.040-08:00I am just starting to read the 2013/2014 Global Fr...I am just starting to read the 2013/2014 Global Fraud Report from Kroll. It's only about corporate fraud though.<br /><br />Does anyone publish a similar report on Government Fraud? I still have not managed to replace the health insurance that I was promised that I could keep.<br /><br />Obama is going to have a hard time getting a better rap from historians than Nixxon did...sm_landlordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05240427561510825980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-65882384936470714952013-12-14T20:11:22.601-08:002013-12-14T20:11:22.601-08:00Ahhh the Expo Line. Finished on time, under budge...Ahhh the Expo Line. Finished on time, under budget and experiencing higher than projected ridership. After adjusting down each m3easure at least four time apiece. <br /><br />http://www.friends4expo.org/<br /><br />This is going to surpass Houston as a wham bam tram. Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-73466024482634155362013-12-14T19:50:43.896-08:002013-12-14T19:50:43.896-08:00Choo-choo-to-the-sea update:
The intersection of ...Choo-choo-to-the-sea update:<br /><br />The intersection of Eleventh and Colorado in SM was closed for construction today, and to my horror, it looks like they are laying rail AT GRADE right down the middle of Colorado Avenue. <br /><br />As if SM did not have enough traffic trouble, it appears that Colorado Avenue will now bisect the city further into North and South, with rolling stock ready to randomly t-bone automobiles and cream pedestrians who dare to cross the boundary.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the city has narrowed the North/South through streets to add bicycle lanes at the expense of traffic lanes, which are now too narrow for the truck traffic. <br /><br />This is not going to end well. So glad I do not live here any more.sm_landlordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05240427561510825980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-50439198502261965832013-12-14T19:31:49.568-08:002013-12-14T19:31:49.568-08:00I'm afraid that I won't be contributing mu...I'm afraid that I won't be contributing much to the promotional retail economy for the rest of the year, but I am definitely dumping funds into the economy. Just installed 7 new servers at the data center, and spending about $30K on labor and materials for an apartment remodel. We had Plumbegeddon in SM last week, as a crew of incompetent plumbers totally bungled a copper repipe job. One of the plumbers went to jail after he nailed a bicyclist and then crashed into a parked car with his truck while running out to buy parts (and, uh, "load up" apparently).<br /><br />The rest of the year looks like more remodeling fun and a bunch of security patches, as one of our Wordpress servers was hacked and get this: the hack-bot installed a daemon to compute Bitcoin hashes! Ludicrous, of course, since you would have to hack several hundred servers to get the hashing throughput of a single ASIC-based mining box... but whatever.<br /><br />Fun'N'Games.sm_landlordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05240427561510825980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-39491602999255939782013-12-14T18:26:45.565-08:002013-12-14T18:26:45.565-08:00Most excellent. Always good stuff to talk about. ...Most excellent. Always good stuff to talk about. See a few posts back the shift in reporting bias for initial claims? Doesn't take a math genius but it helps. <br /><br />The blog is doing good and getting better every week. It's all about content and presentation. Something you know a bit about. Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-47985374128199465632013-12-14T17:19:56.234-08:002013-12-14T17:19:56.234-08:00hey RD - thanks for asking after me some posts bac...hey RD - thanks for asking after me some posts back. I've been back for a couple of weeks. I read your blog regularly and wish it well. I'm can't yet find a succinct way of describing the visit to India. Every visit changes me a little. So I have to figure that change in me out a bit more first before I comment on what I saw, heard etc... Separately, as regards HCN - its just history now. but the way people got their knickers in a twist when their Democrat-wing shibboleths were challenged from a Third World perspective was very educational. I recall that Mary asked me a couple of times - why do I bother to comment ? A great question and for that audience its true - Its just not worth the bother. I look forward to commenting on-topic in your blog every so often. skhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05744393408613566528noreply@blogger.com