by Bellingham Bill on 19 Jul 2015 Posted 9 years ago
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Another rent vs buy -- on the iPod
by Bellingham Bill on 3 Jul 2015 2 comments, latest 9 years ago
Been playing with Apple Music, kinda fun to have so much music on tap. I had it playing on the house speakers and actually started dancing to Earth Wind ...
by Bellingham Bill on 3 Jul 2015 2 comments, latest 9 years ago
Been playing with Apple Music, kinda fun to have so much music on tap. I had it playing on the house speakers and actually started dancing to Earth Wind ...
Hackintosh Build Went Great
by Bellingham Bill on 22 Jun 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
So I waited for WWDC to see if Apple was going to release anything interesting, but . . . nope! So I kicked off the order I had in ...
by Bellingham Bill on 22 Jun 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
So I waited for WWDC to see if Apple was going to release anything interesting, but . . . nope! So I kicked off the order I had in ...
I Love OS X and Hate Macs
by Bellingham Bill on 27 May 2015 17 comments, latest 9 years ago
Been running Windows 10 for a month, not as bad as 7 or 8 but OS X is still streets ahead -- not as ahead as System 7 was ...
by Bellingham Bill on 27 May 2015 17 comments, latest 9 years ago
Been running Windows 10 for a month, not as bad as 7 or 8 but OS X is still streets ahead -- not as ahead as System 7 was ...
by Bellingham Bill on 17 May 2015 4 comments, latest 9 years ago
This is probably obvious to people who've actually read a micro econ book, but getting my usual kebab lunch yesterday and seeing the price had been raised 10% the ...
by Bellingham Bill on 30 Apr 2015 13 comments, latest 9 years ago
The important take-away from this is the different distribution in Japan -- lower top 10%, higher bottom 10% -- compared to the US. This results in people protecting convenience ...
by Bellingham Bill on 28 Mar 2015 1 comment, latest 9 years ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ my general opinion of things. Missing from the article is the understanding that the 1990 and 2007 recessions came from consumer credit overextension (plus the oilpatch crash didn't ...
by Bellingham Bill on 13 Mar 2015 4 comments, latest 9 years ago
. . . or at least the chassis of one. At the In N Out yesterday I happened to see a Peterbilt 220 that struck me as a good ...
How The Rich Get Richer
by Bellingham Bill on 12 Mar 2015 22 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ap So some mom & pop retail outlet busting their asses to break even pays 15%, and the richest private sector entity on the planet pays 2%. Whatta great ...
by Bellingham Bill on 12 Mar 2015 22 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ap So some mom & pop retail outlet busting their asses to break even pays 15%, and the richest private sector entity on the planet pays 2%. Whatta great ...
by Bellingham Bill on 25 Feb 2015 4 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://research.stlouisfed.org #bubbles
You may know Proposition 13, have you heard of 14?
by Bellingham Bill on 22 Feb 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californ Reagan, what a character! This was before my time, but I saw it mentioned in Nixonland, in passing. Great book, tomorrow I'm getting Invisible Bridge from the library, ...
by Bellingham Bill on 22 Feb 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californ Reagan, what a character! This was before my time, but I saw it mentioned in Nixonland, in passing. Great book, tomorrow I'm getting Invisible Bridge from the library, ...
Call it Crazy deleted this comment of yours
by Bellingham Bill on 14 Feb 2015 9 comments, latest 9 years ago
Bigsby says Reports like this just don't matter to you I take it. Why? and that is the interesting question. I can understand people on Kochs' payroll lying about ...
by Bellingham Bill on 14 Feb 2015 9 comments, latest 9 years ago
Bigsby says Reports like this just don't matter to you I take it. Why? and that is the interesting question. I can understand people on Kochs' payroll lying about ...
by Bellingham Bill on 3 Feb 2015 Posted 9 years ago
http://research.stlouisfed.org plateau or peak?? #housing
by Bellingham Bill on 2 Feb 2015 1 comment, latest 9 years ago
I wanted to see what the German 1941-42 invasion of E Europe (baltic states, Stalin's slice of Poland, and the USSR looked like: Kinda interesting. Leningrad is the topmost ...
by Bellingham Bill on 29 Jan 2015 15 comments, latest 9 years ago
Real Home Price Index for Fresno #bubbles
by Bellingham Bill on 29 Jan 2015 Posted 9 years ago
http://research.stlouisfed.org Coming Soon To An Economy Near You!
by Bellingham Bill on 26 Jan 2015 12 comments, latest 9 years ago
Looking over the new population projection data: http://www.census.gov/populati I was shocked at what I saw: Population of age 65+ is going to double over the next 50 years. Age ...
Baskin Robbins Inflation Adjustment Sale
by Bellingham Bill on 26 Jan 2015 Posted 9 years ago
On the 31st you can get a scoop for $1.31. BR is one of my main inflation calibrators, since them raising prices from 25c to 28c in 1975 was ...
by Bellingham Bill on 26 Jan 2015 Posted 9 years ago
On the 31st you can get a scoop for $1.31. BR is one of my main inflation calibrators, since them raising prices from 25c to 28c in 1975 was ...
by Bellingham Bill on 11 Jan 2015 2 comments, latest 9 years ago
So I was wondering who the hell C.A. Yancey was . . . http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.o He then came to Toll House and bought a claim of about 900 acres and ...
by Bellingham Bill on 11 Jan 2015 1 comment, latest 9 years ago
aka a second train line to compete with SPRR: San Francisco Call, July 1893: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cd It has been estimated that the value of the products shipped out of this ...
by Bellingham Bill on 11 Jan 2015 Posted 9 years ago
Each square on the map is one square mile, and E.B Perry owned a lot of Fresno County (the light reddish claims). "After service in the Civil War [on ...
by Bellingham Bill on 11 Jan 2015 Posted 9 years ago
Doing research for something I came across this pic: That's the US Cavalry defending a meat train leaving the Chicago Stockyards from railroad strikers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P for more
Summary of Latest Federal Tax Data is out
by Bellingham Bill on 1 Jan 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://taxfoundation.org/artic Highlights: Top 1%'s, with over 20% of the national income, tax rate declined from 23.5% in 2011 to 22.8% in 2012. Top 5% share went from 33.9% in ...
by Bellingham Bill on 1 Jan 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://taxfoundation.org/artic Highlights: Top 1%'s, with over 20% of the national income, tax rate declined from 23.5% in 2011 to 22.8% in 2012. Top 5% share went from 33.9% in ...
by Bellingham Bill on 30 Dec 2014 2 comments, latest 9 years ago
Turn out the lights . . . Precious, too
by Bellingham Bill on 20 Dec 2014 Posted 9 years ago
Interesting contrast I thought; Japan is doing its Icarus impression, the US has hit stasis again (until the next leg up at least), and Norway is saying Nei to ...
by Bellingham Bill on 15 Nov 2014 1 comment, latest 9 years ago
by Bellingham Bill on 6 Nov 2014 8 comments, latest 9 years ago
"In October, mid-size businesses added 122,000 jobs, small businesses, 102,000 and large companies, 5,000, ADP said." +5,000 job gain for large companies (over 500 employees). WTF? shows the age ...
RedFin makes it to Fresno (yeay!)
by Bellingham Bill on 19 Oct 2014 Posted 10 years ago
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Fres corner lot on a busy street but the house is certainly nice They also have listings for up in the mountains, where I'm more interested in living.
by Bellingham Bill on 19 Oct 2014 Posted 10 years ago
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Fres corner lot on a busy street but the house is certainly nice They also have listings for up in the mountains, where I'm more interested in living.
by Bellingham Bill on 20 Sep 2014 16 comments, latest 10 years ago
Here's my build with current prices: Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz $589.99 EVGA 04G-P4-2982-KR GeForce GTX 980 4GB $569.99 ASRock X99 Extreme3 $209.79 Crucial 16GB (4 x 4GB) ...
Interesting early American Capitalist
by Bellingham Bill on 14 Sep 2014 3 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N At the time, both Great Britain and the United States had fur trading companies, settlers and others in the Pacific Northwest. After they settled the northern boundary in ...
by Bellingham Bill on 14 Sep 2014 3 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N At the time, both Great Britain and the United States had fur trading companies, settlers and others in the Pacific Northwest. After they settled the northern boundary in ...
by Bellingham Bill on 29 Aug 2014 4 comments, latest 10 years ago
Still on a Conroe Win7 box with a 5770 so it's about time to upgrade . . . PCs have evolved a bit since 2008, the most significant advance ...
by Bellingham Bill on 27 Aug 2014 3 comments, latest 10 years ago
Nobody gets this. Well, Krugman did at least. "So Rick Perry doesn’t know the secrets of job creation, or even of regional growth. It would be great to see ...
by Bellingham Bill on 26 Aug 2014 Posted 10 years ago
http://research.stlouisfed.org blue is manufacturing, information, construction, and retail jobs. red is 25% of the working-age population
by Bellingham Bill on 21 Aug 2014 Posted 10 years ago
http://research.stlouisfed.org I don't know what this really means but I thought it was an interesting comparison. Back in the 70s the yen was at ~300, so this is money ...
by Bellingham Bill on 14 Aug 2014 4 comments, latest 10 years ago
I made this for a reddit thread yesterday, thought it was interesting . . . http://research.stlouisfed.org Blue is full-time jobs, red is the long-term trend (78% of age 25-64) ...
by Bellingham Bill on 15 Aug 2014 1 comment, latest 10 years ago
it's about 20 miles and 60 years but it's where St Louis decided to house their minority population in the 1950s, in substandard apartment blocks. http://goo.gl/C0r7Yp is the QuikTrip ...
by Bellingham Bill on 7 Aug 2014 6 comments, latest 10 years ago
So, seeing this last night: after reading this: http://motherboard.vice.com/re got me to do this math from http://science.howstuffworks.c "If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world ...
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