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Future Tracking of Humans It’s nearing the end of 2020 and the availability of tracking technology is through the ceiling. Makes you wonder how anyone pulled any shenanigans or crime on Star Trek and other futuristic sci-fi dramas; Deep Space 9, Star Wars, etc., where everyone and everything is tracked down to the last molecule. After all,...

Has anyone else noticed how obnoxious searching for stuff on the Internet has become. Try searching for lawn mowing insert city here – and you get 15 pages of search hijacks – think Angie’s list, Home Advisor only 500 fold. We’ve been searching for services for this new place and holy crap it is nearly impossible to...

Big Boom Theory People in our neighborhood complain that they hear super loud booms now and then. There’s no real pattern obvious to a casual observer and no explanations offered from trusty bureaucrats paid to montitor such events. A plethora of things can cause super loud booms. A truck load shift. Collisions between fast moving objects, Automobile...

Shop With External Hazards to Your Investment in Mind We have, in past lives, purchased houses located in flood, tornado and severe storm zones. We have also, in the past lost homes to floods caused by severe storms. It is one thing to discover a dream home and quite another to discover said dream home is liable...

When playing the game of Scrabble it is so easy to get so bogged down with the mechanics of mixing the order of seven alphabetical letters to fish out a word. Letters become characters with point value as we stretch the limits of the Scrabble book to discover the meaning of “Za, quixotic and Qi. We stare...