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Why NJ / northeast real estate housing values will crash in coming years. 15

Jan

20

2016

While this post may seem out-of-touch with today’s real estate market in NJ, it’s my contention that multiple economic headwinds from 2016 and beyond will lead to structural changes in the economies of the northeast which will in turn cause pretty severe price declines and adjustments for NJ (and many northeast regions) real estate property ...

Book thoughts: Our Final Invention – the coming AI-pocalypse 2

Dec

8

2014

I recently just finished reading (listening to…) Our Final Invention – Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat . I was intrigued by this book when I saw it come across my Flipbook newsfeed. The book deals with a topic of particular interest to me being in the IT realm. The premise is that ...

Ten conspiracy predictions that may well be true… 2

Oct

22

2014

I’m typically not a conspiracy theory person, I’m pretty confident most things have a reasonable and justifiable explanation, but I too like to indulge my questioning side, and for fun (no I’m not losing it) ask what if?.. Now this posting isn’t unique, and if you think conspiracy theories are always bunk look here 10 ...

Why are we alone? the Fermi Paradox

May

25

2014

I came across an interesting read the other morning on my Flipboard news stream.. From Gizmodo The Fermi Paradox: Where the Hell Are the Other Earths? . Basically the Fermi Paradox in a nutshell says, in such a vast universe such as ours with so many potential stars and planets why haven’t we seen evidence of ...

How can planes “vanish” in 2014? 1

Mar

8

2014

UPDATE (10/10/2014): PBS Series NOVA did an interesting episode on this topic.. take a look here. Nova: Why Planes Vanish (Video) UPDATE (12/29/2014): Sadly another aircraft has been AirAsia Flight QZ8501, has gone missing, while this incident seems a bit less mysterious than MH370 , it again underscores the need for real-time GPS (Satellite live telemetry systems. ...

Planet Money podcasts rock! my favorite episodes!

Oct

10

2013

Why Planet Money Rocks! Planet Money (NPR) podcasts are awesome! the podcast on anything related to finance, economy, money with plenty of social commentary mixed in, are thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking ,downright frustrating and most of all enlightening. In my daily diet of podcasts, Planet Money are almost always universally excellent, the wide variety of ...

Do only sick older people watch the evening news? 6

Sep

20

2013

My daily routine after I get home from the gym or work, is to have a late dinner and then check out the evening news that I DVR’d . I don’t watch it live because I’m not home around 6:30p, so I just record it and watch it later, plus I can fast forward through ...