Stream of conciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into it’s own separate post…

• Huntly Bypass was apparently opened on early March 2020. Only discovered it last night 17May2020 when coming home where I found that the Expressway continued on after Taupiri. The Weekend just past has been the first weekend on Covid-19 alert level 2 (Previously, interregional travel was not permitted)

Older Stream of Conciousness thoughts can be found here.

Stream of conciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into it’s own separate post…

• (14May2020 2:00 p.m. NZST) Bull trap warning still in force (at the moment). Have Liquidated some more positions last week purely as a risk reduction measure with the acknowledgement that I will quite possibly miss out on capital appreciation. Still feeling the pulse and making sense of it all. Not yet convinced the underlying economic issues have been sufficiently stabilized to consider substantive new investments for the long term. Though as always, anything can change on a dime.

• There are the occasional times I do desire to do things alone in my own space, at my own pace and in my own time.

• Discovered that the Brave browser for iOS on my iPad was detecting 4 “Fingerprinting methods” for this website. Went to download the Brave browser for PC Desktop to investigate further and see what scripts were causing the warning.  The PC desktop version came up with nothing – ‘0’ Fingerprinting methods (very helpful /s). Further scurrying around, found my barebones Test WordPress installation also came up with the same result. Laid down a fresh WordPress installation and it came up with the same result again. Will have to investigate later. Seems the iOS version of Brave is picking up some “responsive layout” theme scripting as having these Fingerprinting methods.

Older Stream of Conciousness thoughts can be found here.

Stream of conciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into it’s own separate post…

• As a paying customer of Spotify, it appears this doesn’t stop them from handing quite a bit of my personal data off to Facebook. Have to admit. I get a tad annoyed when I pay for things yet still have personal information data-minded the sh*t out of and then given away to a privacy invading Advertising and Analytics company like Facebook.

• (Fri 8th May, 10:14 pm NZST) Uneasy that I’ve independently arrived at a forecast that aligns with many financial commentators. Traditionally in the past, it often indicates my crystal ball is wrong. Thats being the case, we may very well see the S&P500 Sky rocket tomorrow morning contrary to common wisdom at the release of a horrible employment situation / jobs report tomorrow, in which case it will be confirmation that the financial markets have completely decoupled from fundamentals, distorted by excess liquidity and quantitative easing.

Older Stream of Conciousness thoughts can be found here.

Stream of conciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into it’s own separate post…

• It is worth highlighting that “Coronaviruses” are a type (or class if you will) of Virus. These include Common human coronaviruses which may only produce a mild, cold like, symptoms. I do wonder how reliable the test kits have been… How many false positives and false negatives there have been and has there been any such follow-up testing or otherwise investigation to ensure we aren’t picking up ordinary common coronaviruses as CoViD-19 and vice versa.

• One positive thing about the lock down is that upon walking once were busy streets, you’re no longer suffocating in petrol and diesel fumes any more. This was especially so with busier roads such as Remuera Road, Lunn Avenue and St Johns Road for example.

• Discovered some new tracks around the neighbourhood that I haven’t even realized that were there. Will probably go back and explore that track network later on.

• Trialling YouTube red for a while. Probably the best time to do it.

Other CoVid-19 thoughts have been rolled up into their own post.

 

 

Stream of conciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may get spawned out into its own separate post or removed entirely…

• Phone Cameras are improving quite substantially. I am often asked by others what Camera I have used to take the photos I have posted to NUI.NZ and express surprised that the majority of them have been taken on a phone.

• One area that phone cameras have not caught up yet is with Telephoto. A lot of hybrid zoom technology still produces very rough images. Recommended you still carry a dedicated travel zoom for these situations.

• 1/2.3 inch sensors in dedicated cameras are like the 1366×768 screen resolutions in laptops. Plentiful in the market but for me are a bit of a turn off.

• A (possible) start of a sideways secular market was detected around the middle of 2019 and was judged to have started around the beginning of 2018

• The markets are now approximately 20-25% off of their peak. Probably expect further falls in the coming week (Written 10th March 2020 NZDT)

• An issue of trying to mix cyclists and cars on Auckland’s road network is that the presence of cyclists tend to disrupt traffic flow due to the roads not being made to accommodate cycling activities. On a more extreme case. Cyclists tend to use the pedestrian/cyclist crossing on Highbrook Drive. While they are absolutely within their right to do so, it does cause vehicles to have to brake (brake wear and tear) and additional fuel use (due to needing to accelerate back up to speed)