Archive for July 26th, 2013

All these years, you’ve been tying your shoes wrong!

July 26, 2013

Last weekend, I was minding my own business – just tying my shoes – when one of my daughters-in-law exclaimed “You’re tying your shoes wrong!”

Say, what?

I figure that I’ve tied my shoes 10s of thousands of times … the way that the original Grandma Homa taught me.

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Wrong way?

My daughter-in-law explained the difference between hard knots and soft knots … showed me the “right” way to tie my shoes.

Since I was, shall we say, skeptical, she linked me to a classic TED talk on the subject.

Here’s how to tie your shoes the right way …

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Economy: Housing on a run, but way below historical average.

July 26, 2013

Interesting analysis from the Wall Street Daily …

Residential Fixed Investment — aka. “housing” — has been trending upward in 2012 …

…  albeit from a low post-crisis level

… and is still far below the historical average.

 Conclusion: Trend is right …  with plenty of upside.

 

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