• Re: OT: to Hugh H

    From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Nov 25 14:52:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from the very start without even needing to do any math...because I understood
    the basic data apparently much better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be embarrassing.

    Take a look at the chart below. The fill is removed from the data dots
    to reduce clutter. It has all the simple (aka univariate) regression
    options I looked at 10 years ago when I first plotted the data. I did
    one regression at a time, takes about 5 seconds each in Excel. Getting
    all on one chart and formatted to be readable took about 5 minutes. My tutoring rate is $300 an hours.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_1gsMeZ1QyjO9Qa_CpN0ZtaIPN-WHPWk/view?usp=sharing

    Which one do you think fits best with the highest R^2? Just name the
    color. Surely you know your colors.

    Footnote:

    https://statisticseasily.com/glossario/what-is-univariate-regression-explained-in-detail/
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Nov 25 15:09:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from
    the very start without even needing to do any math...because I
    understood the basic data apparently much better than you did (and
    still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting time
    in total. What you would get for that is a summary overview of what
    you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the work
    to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic & disingenuous:
    the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never be satisfied.
    Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Nov 25 20:45:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from
    the very start without even needing to do any math...because I
    understood the basic data apparently much better than you did (and
    still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting time
    in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of what
    you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the work
    to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic & disingenuous:
    the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Nov 25 18:12:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from
    the very start without even needing to do any math...because I
    understood the basic data apparently much better than you did (and
    still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of
    what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the work
    to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never be
    satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Nov 26 11:09:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from >>>>> the very start without even needing to do any math...because I
    understood the basic data apparently much better than you did (and
    still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of
    what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never be
    satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for
    additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad customer
    who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Nov 26 11:53:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity from >>>>> the very start without even needing to do any math...because I
    understood the basic data apparently much better than you did (and
    still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling a
    simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of
    what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never be
    satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for
    additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension data
    plot with a statistical model?
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Nov 26 12:39:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity
    from the very start without even needing to do any math...because >>>>>> I understood the basic data apparently much better than you did
    (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling
    a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of >>>> what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never
    be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for
    additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad customer
    who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information. You have had weeks to
    think about this. You have stated several times that you can help
    improve the model. It should take no more than 10 minutes to type in
    your ideas and hit the send arrow. That's actually $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up front
    for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I would need
    to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could validate my
    pilot logbook. You are the same person who called a simple data plot a statistical model. No ethics and no expertise. But I am willing to give
    you a chance anyway.

    So what are the possibilities? Different model specification? It's going
    to be difficult to improve on 96+% R^2. I have tried several data transformations, including ln temp against ln kWh. Results were
    marginally worse in every case. The only thing that helped was using ln
    kWh that took out heteroscedasticity and dramatically reduced the
    standard error of several independent variable coefficients. That was
    all. Heteroscedasticity does not usually bias coefficient estimates, but
    may increase their standard errors.

    Different independent variables? I have tried wind and solar data, no
    effect. Others? Help would be appreciated.

    Keep in mind that just for fun I wanted to track changes in the home and
    see if they could help account for the long term reductions seen in my
    power use. Along with the average temperature record (below) the model
    tracks that reduction. You saw the graph. Mission accomplished. Any
    marginal improvement is not worth much to me. If you have something much better then we can talk.

    BTW, I did find one model that has a much higher R^2. The new thermostat
    has very detailed downloadable data from which I extracted monthly run
    time for the heat pump compressor and aux heat. I regressed that against
    the monthly utility bill kWh hours consumed. The R^2 was over 98%. The 2 independent variables were all that was needed. However this is not a
    viable regression model. Expert that you are (?) you will know the reason.

    Year Avg Temp
    2010 54.7
    2011 55.0
    2012 57.0
    2013 52.3
    2014 49.9
    2015 53.5
    2016 55.4
    2017 55.6
    2018 53.3
    2019 54.9
    2020 54.9
    2021 54.7
    2022 53.8
    2023 56.3
    2024 56.9




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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Nov 26 10:34:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity
    from the very start without even needing to do any math...because >>>>>> I understood the basic data apparently much better than you did
    (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling
    a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview of >>>> what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never
    be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call for
    additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If your
    advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability I can
    rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Nov 26 10:35:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any math...because >>>>>>> I understood the basic data apparently much better than you did >>>>>>> (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling >>>>>> a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview
    of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never
    be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call
    for additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If
    your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability
    I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad customer
    who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information.

    "No true Scotsman".

    You have had weeks to
    think about this. You have stated several times that you can help
    improve the model. It should take no more than 10 minutes to type in
    your ideas and hit the send arrow. That's actually $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up front
    for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I would need
    to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could validate my
    pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    You are the same person who called a simple data plot a
    statistical model.

    Quote please, Liarboy.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Nov 27 10:27:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any math...because >>>>>>> I understood the basic data apparently much better than you did >>>>>>> (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling >>>>>> a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview
    of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never
    be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call
    for additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If
    your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability
    I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension
    data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money. In the
    context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how wealthy
    he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Nov 27 10:27:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much
    better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to >>>>>>> be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting >>>>>> time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview >>>>>> of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the >>>>>> work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never >>>>>> be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not
    call for additional data that is not available or does not even
    exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's
    capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad customer
    who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time." >>>

    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information.

    "No true Scotsman".

    As I've said, Tommy's intent is to welsh.


    You have had weeks to think about this. You have stated several times
    that you can help improve the model. It should take no more than 10
    minutes to type in your ideas and hit the send arrow. That's actually
    $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up
    front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I
    would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could
    validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old
    friend of mine to review his flight logs. At the time, that friend was
    a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    ...and why UK you may ask? Because non-US airlines with trans-Atlantic flights to the US have to meet FAA regulations to land here, so there's
    been at times FAA staff located there (D'uh!).


    You are the same person who called a simple data plot a statistical
    model.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    Doesn't matter either: Tommy represented that plot as his work product.
    He later backtracked, claiming that there was more. There was, but
    that revision doesn't change his first claim from being a
    misrepresentation.


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Nov 27 10:32:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/26/2025 1:34 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any math...because >>>>>>> I understood the basic data apparently much better than you did >>>>>>> (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that calling >>>>>> a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to be
    embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting
    time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview
    of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the
    work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never
    be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material model
    improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not call
    for additional data that is not available or does not even exist. If
    your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's capability
    I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension
    data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    Hugh called a scatter plot of outside temperature (source: NOAA, daily adjusted for meter read dates, Indianapolis International Airport,
    2010-2025, see link below) and my total electric (heat pump HVAC) home's
    kWh billing/day (monthly IPL/AES bills, 2010-2025) a model.
    Specifically, he called it a univariate model with excessive variance
    and from other variables not controlled for therefore not meaningful. He
    also claimed that I did nothing else to try and explain the variance
    other than the univariate plot that is not even a model in any real sense.

    Quote Hugh:

    "With your present data, I wouldn't bother: it has too much noise from ~second order variables that you've failed to control for. One doesn't
    bother with the likes of a Student t until the data's clean enough to be useful. So the first real step would be to build a better model on the
    legacy data to replace your trash."

    Note he calls this plot a model.

    Hugh claims above and in the quote that follows I did not start a
    meaningful model right away. I did, in 2015.

    Quote Hugh:

    "Translation: a decade in which you were lazy and didn't bother to
    track down the sources of response variance\. Instead, you've massaged
    it to cover up that unresolved noise so that your trend fit looks better."


    A model has a null hypothesis that can tested via statistical analysis.
    If the null hypothesis is kWh is not a statistically significant
    function of outside temperature the graph alone says reject the null hypothesis. However, you still need to run a regression to test that.

    Why regression, not just ANOVA? Outside temperature should cause kWh to
    change over time, but kWh consumed by a home cannot change outside
    temperature at the airport. So there is a one-way causal relationship
    and regression is a valid tool.

    The 2015 scatter plot was only done to confirm a non-linear relationship
    of these two variables. Then I ran some trial regressions to confirm the appropriate functional form for a good fit between them, five to be
    exact. Power, exponential, linear (obviously not a good fit),
    logarithmic, and polynomial transforms of temperature were all tried.
    The only one that modeled the data was K = a + b(T) + c(T^2), a
    quadratic polynomial. That fit has an R^2 of 0.87 (87%) and all three coefficients are have t stats that are significant at the 99+% level.
    Pretty good for a simple univariate model. But we can do much better
    with additional variables.

    The day I saw this plot I also had in hand some other variables. In 2015
    those variables increased R^2 to about 95%. I have been improving the
    model since. Example: a major increase in independent variable t scores
    was seen after using ln (natural log) of kWh to reduce
    heteroscedasticity. This happens when independent variables cause
    percentage, not linear, changes in the dependent variable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoscedasticity_and_heteroscedasticity).
    There are other methods, but for my purposes the ln transform suffices.

    I have also found that when the ln transform was made temperature fit
    was slightly better when I substituted temperature^3 for just
    temperature in the polynomial.

    Why this result, a polynomial for temperature? The plot tells you that
    kWh/day increases on both sides of a thermally neutral average
    temperature of about 68 F. Either side of that and the heat pump runs to either move heat energy into (winter) or out of (summer) the home. At
    the minimum kWh/day you see use by everything else in the home - lights, clothes dryer, water heater, appliances, etc. These together use about
    30 kWh a day. Winter total use goes as high as 150-180 kWh/day in January-February. Summer use increases too, but the winter temperature
    delta is much higher than winter. A polynomial is the only form that
    models this kWh/day data shape. Saw that from day 1.

    Of course none of these power uses are broken out on our bills. We only
    get an estimate by doing a statistical analysis.

    I got my November AES bill today, and included that in the model. The
    result follows. My challenge to Hugh is to improve on these results. My
    offer for $120 for some ideas stands.

    November 2025 Regression Statistics for ln kWh/day

    Multiple R 0.9832
    R Square 0.9666
    Adjusted R Square 0.9638
    Standard Error 0.1048
    Observations 191

    Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Intercept 5.7513 0.0460 124.9547 0.0000
    Avg Temp^2/1000 -1.3258 0.0513 -25.8514 0.0000
    Avg Temp^3/1000 0.0130 0.0007 19.3185 0.0000
    Winter Days Away>9 -0.0088 0.0018 -4.9382 0.0000
    Compressor Failure Days 0.0214 0.0028 7.7401 0.0000
    New Windows 2020 -0.1103 0.0243 -4.5320 0.0000
    Porch Enclosed 2014 -0.1262 0.0238 -5.3112 0.0000
    New Water Heater 2017 -0.0652 0.0278 -2.3434 0.0202
    New Heat Pump 2024 -0.2033 0.0313 -6.4965 0.0000
    May -0.1674 0.0424 -3.9500 0.0001
    Jun -0.1616 0.0646 -2.5028 0.0132
    Jul -0.1265 0.0783 -1.6148 0.1081
    Aug -0.1707 0.0720 -2.3726 0.0187
    Sep -0.1653 0.0581 -2.8465 0.0049
    Oct -0.1464 0.0366 -3.9997 0.0001
    September Outliers -0.2115 0.0608 -3.4781 0.0006


    I was very interested in seeing if new heat pump is more efficient than
    the 15 year old unit it replaced. It is, and the result is highly
    significant with a t stat of 6.4965.

    Plot highlighting new heat pump months:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oKlT9dM3pztd2AcI0wYG6ATIXRysLtFf/view?usp=sharing

    Note that for any given temperature the green dots for the months with
    the new heat pump are all on the low side of the other data points. Many
    lie below any dots at that temperature. Thus the highly significant t Stat.

    We made other post-2010 improvements and repairs too. Roof replaced,
    exterior paint (twice), kitchen appliances replaced, master bath
    remodel, one exterior door replaced, water-damaged chimney casing
    repaired, ceiling fans added to all 4 bedrooms, all come to mind. No
    reason to suspect anything other than the appliances would make a
    difference. Appliances did, but not statistically significant. The
    exterior door is a garage entry, not a heated area.

    Finally, the November regression residual is -0.0122, only 0.3% of the
    actual value. The model continues to track the actual use for another
    month. Note that I moved the vertical axis from 0 to 2.5 to highlight
    the differences between actual and predicted.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b1wKGpxpPbuKgRmgUT1xG9UGGy8HVvUP/view?usp=sharing


    Source: Average Temperature: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=ind
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 08:44:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much
    better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to >>>>>>> be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting >>>>>> time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview >>>>>> of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the >>>>>> work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never >>>>>> be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not
    call for additional data that is not available or does not even
    exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's
    capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension
    data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In the context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how wealthy
    he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    It's not the money. But given your history you probably will not accept
    any kind of evidence at face value. Nonetheless, some screenshots
    condensed to a pdf page follow:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/view?usp=sharing

    Needless to say, $120, or even $12,000, will not make a serious dent in
    what you see, and that is only part of the total picture. There are
    other significant assets, and under $10k in total debt at the moment.

    Here is the "actual reality". I don't think you have anything that would materially impact the model and the goals I set out to accomplish with
    it. It accurately tracks my monthly electric use over 15 years, explains
    how that has dropped by almost 50%, and confirms that the
    energy-conserving side effects of several home improvements have been effective.

    Even if you do have anything in its current state I am quite happy with
    the results. With a positive cost, trivial as it is, and zero benefit to
    me, I withdraw the offer of a trivial $120.

    Now, if you want try and show that the model is trash, either improve it
    (a link to an Excel file with all the data I have has been provided) or
    admit that you are trying to swindle me with an empty offer.

    Or, you can also just shut the f$^% up.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 10:58:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much
    better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has to >>>>>>> be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of consulting >>>>>> time in total.  What you would get for that is a summary overview >>>>>> of what you've missed, as validated by your 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the >>>>>> work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to never >>>>>> be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I
    missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not
    call for additional data that is not available or does not even
    exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's
    capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a
    PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension
    data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In the context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how wealthy
    he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    Followup #2

    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important
    to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 09:22:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 07:58, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much
    better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a
    summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your
    'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the >>>>>>> work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to
    never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I >>>>>> missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not >>>>>> call for additional data that is not available or does not even
    exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's >>>>>> capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a >>>>>> PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension
    data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In the
    context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how
    wealthy he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    Followup #2

    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important
    to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOOLOLOOOLOL!
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 15:38:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/25 12:22, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 07:58, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much >>>>>>>>>> better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a
    summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your
    'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of >>>>>>>> the work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic >>>>>>>> & disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to >>>>>>>> never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I >>>>>>> missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and
    not call for additional data that is not available or does not
    even exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond >>>>>>> Excel's capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for >>>>>>> a PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2 dimension >>>>> data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In
    the context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how
    wealthy he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    Followup #2

    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important
    to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOOLOLOOOLOL!

    Tommy's still butthurt ranting?

    Seems that he's either not yet heard about Nick Maggiulli's "0.01% Rule"...

    ...or he has, and his prior wealth brags notwithstanding, $150 exceeds
    his 0.01%.


    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you may
    recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version) back
    during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock. Figured I'd try it
    out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 13:13:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 12:38, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 12:22, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 07:58, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the
    nonlinearity from the very start without even needing to do >>>>>>>>>>> any math...because I understood the basic data apparently >>>>>>>>>>> much better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that >>>>>>>>>> calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a >>>>>>>>> summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your >>>>>>>>> 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of >>>>>>>>> the work to be also done for that one hour, which is
    unrealistic & disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's >>>>>>>>> determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time. >>>>>>>>>

    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what >>>>>>>> I missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material >>>>>>>> model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and >>>>>>>> not call for additional data that is not available or does not >>>>>>>> even exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond >>>>>>>> Excel's capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for >>>>>>>> a PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2
    dimension data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In
    the context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how
    wealthy he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    Followup #2

    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very
    important to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOOLOLOOOLOL!

    Tommy's still butthurt ranting?

    Seems that he's either not yet heard about Nick Maggiulli's "0.01% Rule"...

    ...or he has, and his prior wealth brags notwithstanding, $150 exceeds
    his 0.01%.


    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version) back
    during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.  Figured I'd try it
    out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.
    Oooh. I don't need anything at the moment, but I do love Ubiquiti's
    stuff. I don't know if I mentioned this on here, but when I first
    encountered Ubiquiti's network equipment, I did some research on the company...

    ...and they were founded by an ex-Apple guy who initially created the
    company to capitalize on the commercial potential of long(er)-distance
    WiFi links that he'd realize Apple could offer (back when Apple was
    still offering AirPort devices).

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pera>

    The only knock I have on the company is about how they handle support.

    While their products often set up just as easily as the very terse setup information provided with them suggests, it would be better if there
    were proper manuals offered and easily found. They depend far to much on "community" to provide support and answer questions.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 16:40:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 12:22, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 07:58, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:34, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 08:53, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the
    nonlinearity from the very start without even needing to do >>>>>>>>>>> any math...because I understood the basic data apparently >>>>>>>>>>> much better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that >>>>>>>>>> calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a >>>>>>>>> summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your >>>>>>>>> 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of >>>>>>>>> the work to be also done for that one hour, which is
    unrealistic & disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's >>>>>>>>> determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time. >>>>>>>>>

    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what >>>>>>>> I missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material >>>>>>>> model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and >>>>>>>> not call for additional data that is not available or does not >>>>>>>> even exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond >>>>>>>> Excel's capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for >>>>>>>> a PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!

    Why would I pay up front to a person who has confused a 2
    dimension data plot with a statistical model?

    Where did he do that exactly?

    Sounds like another one of your lies.

    It is, which is necessary for him to try to save face.

    And Tommy has made it even more difficult for himself because he's
    unwilling to part with even a trivially small amount of money.  In
    the context of his frequent refrains which attempt to brag about how
    wealthy he is, it is of itself revealing to his actual reality.


    -hh

    Followup #2

    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very
    important to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOOLOLOOOLOL!

    Tommy's still butthurt ranting?

    Seems that he's either not yet heard about Nick Maggiulli's "0.01% Rule"...

    ...or he has, and his prior wealth brags notwithstanding, $150 exceeds
    his 0.01%.

    Never heard of that "rule" but $400 a day, $12,000 a month seems about
    right to me. Maybe a little low even. We averaged $15,000/month last
    year and added to the investments.

    Early next year were a doing a kitchen and family room cabinet re-do.
    That's going to increase spending a bit and eat into re-investment. OTOH
    this year we bought 2 new cars, a new heat pump last year, and only 1
    Europe trip planned next year. We also prepaid part of the kitchen
    project. Likely to do another U.S. trip too. Very comfortable plan. Lots
    of wiggle room. :)


    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version) back
    during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.  Figured I'd try it
    out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be on
    sale there.

    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday you might want to check out this article:

    https://www.sahmcapital.com/news/content/why-investors-are-ditching-high-or-low-cost-smart-beta-for-mid-range-active-etfs-like-jepi-jepq-2025-11-13

    Go talk to JP Morgan. JEPI and JEPQ are appreciating and earning up to
    about 9%/year yield in dividends at the same time. My 2025 dividend
    yield on cost basis will be 9.3% give or take .1%. Not endorsing for
    you, but they work for us.

    I'm getting 300+ mbps on my 5g Verizon router. $40 a month, no rent on
    the router. Plenty fast for uploading my 1080p 60fps YouTube videos and keeping everything on the home network happy at the same time.

    BTW, Amazon has a great deal on TurboTax today if you need that. I
    bought mine for the same price as 2021. Hot specials on some Apple gear too.

    Hope you had a great holiday...
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 14:49:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you may
    recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version) back
    during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.  Figured I'd try it
    out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be on
    sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 17:55:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much
    better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a
    summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your
    'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of the >>>>>>> work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic &
    disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to
    never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I >>>>>> missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and not >>>>>> call for additional data that is not available or does not even
    exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond Excel's >>>>>> capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for a >>>>>> PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad customer
    who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my
    time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information.

    "No true Scotsman".

    As I've said, Tommy's intent is to welsh.


    You have had weeks to think about this. You have stated several times
    that you can help improve the model. It should take no more than 10
    minutes to type in your ideas and hit the send arrow. That's actually
    $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up
    front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I
    would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could
    validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old
    friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that friend was
    a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could just
    pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later backtracked
    and said that had I actually planned to go you would tell me there was
    no such friend there at that time.

    Liar.


    ...and why UK you may ask?  Because non-US airlines with trans-Atlantic flights to the US have to meet FAA regulations to land here, so there's
    been at times FAA staff located there (D'uh!).


    You are the same person who called a simple data plot a statistical
    model.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    Doesn't matter either:  Tommy represented that plot as his work product.
     He later backtracked, claiming that there was more.  There was, but
    that revision doesn't change his first claim from being a
    misrepresentation.


    -hh

    No Hugh, that is not what happened. I showed you a simple plot to
    demonstrate the non-linear data. You interpreted that to be a final
    piece of work. Your bad. A few days later, seeing your error, I posted
    the actual model. You implied that I created that model to show you. A
    version was created in 2015. With a PhD minor in econometrics I am well
    aware that much more work was needed to if I wanted to actually model
    that graphed relationship. Come tho think of it, I have actually known
    that since I took an undergraduate statistics class to go with my math
    minor.


    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 18:08:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you
    may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version)
    back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.  Figured I'd
    try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be on
    sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is true.
    BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources, none were
    lower priced.

    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my twist on
    that.

    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor,
    golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a pittance
    you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour vivre, n'est-ce pas?
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 15:33:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the nonlinearity >>>>>>>>>> from the very start without even needing to do any
    math...because I understood the basic data apparently much >>>>>>>>>> better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that
    calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a
    summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your
    'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of >>>>>>>> the work to be also done for that one hour, which is unrealistic >>>>>>>> & disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's determined to >>>>>>>> never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time.


    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what I >>>>>>> missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material
    model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and
    not call for additional data that is not available or does not
    even exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond >>>>>>> Excel's capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for >>>>>>> a PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad
    customer who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not
    worth my time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information.

    "No true Scotsman".

    As I've said, Tommy's intent is to welsh.


    You have had weeks to think about this. You have stated several
    times that you can help improve the model. It should take no more
    than 10 minutes to type in your ideas and hit the send arrow. That's
    actually $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up
    front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I
    would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could
    validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old
    friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that friend
    was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could just
    pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later backtracked
    and said that had I actually planned to go you would tell me there was
    no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.


    Liar.

    Asshole.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 15:35:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7;
    you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be
    on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption
    as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is true. BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources, none were
    lower priced.

    But the only reason to say that is to imply that Hugh was lying somehow.


    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my twist on that.

    Exactly: your twist.


    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor, golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a pittance
    you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour vivre, n'est-ce pas?

    You keep posting my personal information on here, and I'm going to fly
    to Carmel and drop you.

    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Nov 28 15:41:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor, golfer and FF driver...

    For the record, "washed up" implies things that aren't there.

    I took up hockey at age 30.

    As for ski instructor, it was a fun way to get a free season pass, and
    I'd be doing it still, but the local mountains have made it contingent
    on being willing to work through the entire Christmas season...

    ...and I'm not willing to do that.

    Golfer: I was self-taught, single-digit handicap with a swing lauded by
    better golfers than myself.

    And FF driver: well I'm as fast as a guy who had decades of high-level professional racing experience...

    ...so I'm definitely not "washed up" there.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 08:37:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 6:35 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router
    7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be
    on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption
    as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is
    true. BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources,
    none were lower priced.

    But the only reason to say that is to imply that Hugh was lying somehow.


    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my twist
    on that.

    Exactly: your twist.


    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor,
    golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a pittance
    you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour vivre, n'est-ce
    pas?

    You keep posting my personal information on here, and I'm going to fly
    to Carmel and drop you.


    Now you are threatening physical harm? Are you aware that LinkedIn is on
    the WWW and accessible via search engines and to anyone on LinkedIn?
    This info may be personal but it is most certainly not private. Those
    who will read this post are far from likely to be prospective employers,
    but those who see your LinkedIn profile are.

    You might want to save yourself the cost of a plane ticket and bail
    money and put it toward the 2026 race season. I'll be saving this conversation, just in case.

    Anyway, I wanted to point out that any prospective employer/client who
    sees that page is likely to be put off. Why is a person who claims to be
    a full-time at a company since 2018 now asking for gig work, and
    available immediately on flexible terms? Look at that through a
    prospect's eyes. There are no answers that reflect positively on that combination. There are a lot of questions raised, none of them that you
    would want to have asked. You might want to mull that over.

    Your negative reaction indicates to me that you are somewhat blind to
    negative consequences of your own behavior.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 08:45:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 6:41 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor, golfer and FF driver...

    For the record, "washed up" implies things that aren't there.

    I took up hockey at age 30.

    As for ski instructor, it was a fun way to get a free season pass, and
    I'd be doing it still, but the local mountains have made it contingent
    on being willing to work through the entire Christmas season...

    ...and I'm not willing to do that.

    Golfer: I was self-taught, single-digit handicap with a swing lauded by better golfers than myself.

    And FF driver: well I'm as fast as a guy who had decades of high-level professional racing experience...

    ...so I'm definitely not "washed up" there.

    How many goals did you score in 2025? What was your 2025 season
    handicap? How many FF races have you entered in the last 3 years?

    Looking back, you did run a few fast laps, but won very few races until
    the top competitors who consistently beat you dropped out about 4 years ago.

    Go racing in 2026 and prove me wrong. Until then you are well washed up
    today.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 09:08:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-11-29 05:37, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:35 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router >>>>>> 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be >>>>> on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is
    true. BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources,
    none were lower priced.

    But the only reason to say that is to imply that Hugh was lying somehow.


    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my twist
    on that.

    Exactly: your twist.


    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski
    instructor, golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on
    LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a pittance
    you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour vivre, n'est-
    ce pas?

    You keep posting my personal information on here, and I'm going to fly
    to Carmel and drop you.


    Now you are threatening physical harm?

    Am I?

    Are you aware that LinkedIn is on
    the WWW and accessible via search engines and to anyone on LinkedIn?
    This info may be personal but it is most certainly not private. Those
    who will read this post are far from likely to be prospective employers,
    but those who see your LinkedIn profile are.

    Are you aware that Facebook is on the WWW?


    You might want to save yourself the cost of a plane ticket and bail
    money and put it toward the 2026 race season. I'll be saving this conversation, just in case.

    Anyway, I wanted to point out that any prospective employer/client who
    sees that page is likely to be put off. Why is a person who claims to be
    a full-time at a company since 2018 now asking for gig work, and
    available immediately on flexible terms? Look at that through a
    prospect's eyes. There are no answers that reflect positively on that combination. There are a lot of questions raised, none of them that you would want to have asked. You might want to mull that over.

    Your negative reaction indicates to me that you are somewhat blind to negative consequences of your own behavior.

    Your wife's name is on the WWW. Your address is on the WWW.


    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 14:34:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/29/2025 12:08 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-29 05:37, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:35 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on >>>>>>> right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router >>>>>>> 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior >>>>>>> version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock. >>>>>>> Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to
    be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole? >>>>>
    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research... >>>>>
    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha" >>>>> moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black >>>>>> Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is
    true. BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources,
    none were lower priced.

    But the only reason to say that is to imply that Hugh was lying somehow. >>>

    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my
    twist on that.

    Exactly: your twist.


    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski
    instructor, golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on
    LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a
    pittance you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour
    vivre, n'est- ce pas?

    You keep posting my personal information on here, and I'm going to
    fly to Carmel and drop you.


    Now you are threatening physical harm?

    Am I?

    Yep.


    Are you aware that LinkedIn is on the WWW and accessible via search
    engines and to anyone on LinkedIn? This info may be personal but it is
    most certainly not private. Those who will read this post are far from
    likely to be prospective employers, but those who see your LinkedIn
    profile are.

    Are you aware that Facebook is on the WWW?

    Yep, but I don't post much.


    You might want to save yourself the cost of a plane ticket and bail
    money and put it toward the 2026 race season. I'll be saving this
    conversation, just in case.

    Anyway, I wanted to point out that any prospective employer/client who
    sees that page is likely to be put off. Why is a person who claims to
    be a full-time at a company since 2018 now asking for gig work, and
    available immediately on flexible terms? Look at that through a
    prospect's eyes. There are no answers that reflect positively on that
    combination. There are a lot of questions raised, none of them that
    you would want to have asked. You might want to mull that over.

    Your negative reaction indicates to me that you are somewhat blind to
    negative consequences of your own behavior.

    Your wife's name is on the WWW. Your address is on the WWW.


    Yep, so is your Facebook profile, home address, employer with full
    contact info, and this lie in the last sentence:

    https://www.alignable.com/vancouver-bc/bakermedia

    "My business grew out of a long-time career working with computers;
    using them (desktop publishing and printing) and selling them. As time
    went on, I discovered I liked helping others make their systems work
    better for them more than anything else."

    "Recently, bakerMEDIA has added personnel to allow us to offer website creation and support."

    Interesting that I have also found on the WWW that in 2013 you ran in a
    BHCMR MRP Modern Ford event. You registered your sponsor as "My
    inheritance". So has that pot of money finally run out 12 years later?

    Oh my, the footprints we leave in this day and age!

    https://www.bchmr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/FFord-FVee-Race-1-Results.pdf


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  • From Brock McNuggets@brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 20:09:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Nov 29, 2025 at 12:34:37 PM MST, "Tom Elam" wrote <10gfhsd$3l6mh$1@dont-email.me>:

    On 11/29/2025 12:08 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-29 05:37, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:35 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 5:49 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on >>>>>>>> right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router >>>>>>>> 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior >>>>>>>> version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock. >>>>>>>> Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam. >>>>>>>>

    -hh


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to >>>>>>> be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole? >>>>>>
    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research... >>>>>>
    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha" >>>>>> moment, Asshole?


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black >>>>>>> Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Hope you had a great holiday...

    Hypocritical little Asshole.

    Which is exactly why "they don't seem to be on sale there" That is
    true. BUT, Amazon's listing also suggested numerous other sources,
    none were lower priced.

    But the only reason to say that is to imply that Hugh was lying somehow. >>>>

    Hugh said that he saw it on sale and and jumped on it. I put my
    twist on that.

    Exactly: your twist.


    You are the hypocrite. Just a washed up hockey player, ski
    instructor, golfer and FF driver who is now asking for gig work on
    LinkedIn.

    "Start date
    Immediately, I am actively applying

    Employment types
    Part-time · Contract"

    The profile also claims you have a full-time job.

    "Digital Financial
    Full-time
    Feb 2018 - Present"

    One of these is a lie. Or, Digital Financial is paying you a
    pittance you cannot live on. Vancouver est un endroit cher pour
    vivre, n'est- ce pas?

    You keep posting my personal information on here, and I'm going to
    fly to Carmel and drop you.


    Now you are threatening physical harm?

    Am I?

    Yep.


    Are you aware that LinkedIn is on the WWW and accessible via search
    engines and to anyone on LinkedIn? This info may be personal but it is
    most certainly not private. Those who will read this post are far from
    likely to be prospective employers, but those who see your LinkedIn
    profile are.

    Are you aware that Facebook is on the WWW?

    Yep, but I don't post much.


    You might want to save yourself the cost of a plane ticket and bail
    money and put it toward the 2026 race season. I'll be saving this
    conversation, just in case.

    Anyway, I wanted to point out that any prospective employer/client who
    sees that page is likely to be put off. Why is a person who claims to
    be a full-time at a company since 2018 now asking for gig work, and
    available immediately on flexible terms? Look at that through a
    prospect's eyes. There are no answers that reflect positively on that
    combination. There are a lot of questions raised, none of them that
    you would want to have asked. You might want to mull that over.

    Your negative reaction indicates to me that you are somewhat blind to
    negative consequences of your own behavior.

    Your wife's name is on the WWW. Your address is on the WWW.


    Yep, so is your Facebook profile, home address, employer with full
    contact info, and this lie in the last sentence:

    https://www.alignable.com/vancouver-bc/bakermedia

    "My business grew out of a long-time career working with computers;
    using them (desktop publishing and printing) and selling them. As time
    went on, I discovered I liked helping others make their systems work
    better for them more than anything else."

    "Recently, bakerMEDIA has added personnel to allow us to offer website creation and support."

    Interesting that I have also found on the WWW that in 2013 you ran in a
    BHCMR MRP Modern Ford event. You registered your sponsor as "My
    inheritance". So has that pot of money finally run out 12 years later?

    Oh my, the footprints we leave in this day and age!

    https://www.bchmr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/FFord-FVee-Race-1-Results.pdf

    Being there does not give an excuse for doxxing.
    --
    It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 16:20:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on right
    now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7; you
    may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior version)
    back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.  Figured I'd
    try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be on
    sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday sale advertisements were involved. The problem with his narrative attempt is
    that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were mentioned to me. These
    were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link which prompted a "do you
    need a new router?" question. Similarly, a Wyze BF email for a <$20
    security cam was: "need more cameras?" question. Even though
    everything's been okay, I took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption
    as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always
    tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why weren't
    the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is ~$400 less
    than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 16:41:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router 7;
    you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be
    on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday sale advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were mentioned to me.  These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link which prompted a "do you
    need a new router?" question.  Similarly, a Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?" question.  Even though
    everything's been okay, I took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption
    as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always
    tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why weren't
    the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is ~$400 less
    than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues. But I am sick and
    tired of you implying I do. Tit-for-tat that was.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Nov 29 16:47:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 6:41 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 15:08, Tom Elam wrote:
    Just a washed up hockey player, ski instructor, golfer and FF driver...

    For the record, "washed up" implies things that aren't there.

    I took up hockey at age 30.

    As for ski instructor, it was a fun way to get a free season pass, and
    I'd be doing it still, but the local mountains have made it contingent
    on being willing to work through the entire Christmas season...

    ...and I'm not willing to do that.

    Golfer: I was self-taught, single-digit handicap with a swing lauded by better golfers than myself.

    And FF driver: well I'm as fast as a guy who had decades of high-level professional racing experience...

    ...so I'm definitely not "washed up" there.

    BTW, with post of mine referencing your 2013 race sponsor "My
    inheritance" I think I have a pretty complete picture of what has led up
    to your current LinkedIn profile contradictions. So, I will smugly sit
    back with all those puzzle pieces fitting nicely together and not waste
    any time pursuing further. :)
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 08:42:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/28/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/26/2025 11:09 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 21:12, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-25 17:45, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 3:09 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/25/25 14:52, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/17/2025 1:44 PM, -hh wrote:
    Yeah, so?  Recall that I eyeballed it & noted the
    nonlinearity from the very start without even needing to do >>>>>>>>>>> any math...because I understood the basic data apparently >>>>>>>>>>> much better than you did (and still do).

    You have not responded for several days. I'm thinking that >>>>>>>>>> calling a simple scatter plot a statistical "work product" has >>>>>>>>>> to be embarrassing.

    Nope.

    You've claimed to have offered just one hour's worth of
    consulting time in total.  What you would get for that is a >>>>>>>>> summary overview of what you've missed, as validated by your >>>>>>>>> 'full' spreadsheet.

    Of course you'll not like that answer because you want all of >>>>>>>>> the work to be also done for that one hour, which is
    unrealistic & disingenuous: the sign of a bad customer who's >>>>>>>>> determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not worth my time. >>>>>>>>>

    [snipped, without reading]


    -hh

    OK, I'll take you up on the one hour. $150 for finding out what >>>>>>>> I missed. I'm always willing to learn.

    Of course, the advice must be useful as measured by a material >>>>>>>> model improvement, not duplicate what I have already done, and >>>>>>>> not call for additional data that is not available or does not >>>>>>>> even exist. If your advice calls for a statistical model beyond >>>>>>>> Excel's capability I can rent something else.

    All I need from you if the work is useful is sufficient info for >>>>>>>> a PayPal, Venmo or Zelle transfer.

    So you'll get to decide afterward if the "work is useful"...

    ...and then you'll pay?

    LOL!


    And already anticipated:

    "Of course you'll not like that answer... the sign of a bad
    customer who's determined to never be satisfied. Thus, you're not >>>>>> worth my time."


    Tommy has now confirmed that he 100% intends to welsh.



    -hh

    I will pay if you give me useful information.

    "No true Scotsman".

    As I've said, Tommy's intent is to welsh.


    You have had weeks to think about this. You have stated several
    times that you can help improve the model. It should take no more
    than 10 minutes to type in your ideas and hit the send arrow.
    That's actually $900 an hour.

    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up
    front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me I >>>>> would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who could
    validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old
    friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that friend
    was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could
    just pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later
    backtracked and said that had I actually planned to go you would tell
    me there was no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.


    Liar.

    Asshole.

    No need to quote anything. Hugh admits he baited me with that story
    about a FAA "friend" in England.

    Or is it a different issue???
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 10:20:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router
    7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be
    on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday sale
    advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative attempt
    is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were mentioned to me.
    These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link which prompted a "do
    you need a new router?" question.  Similarly, a Wyze BF email for a
    <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?" question.  Even though
    everything's been okay, I took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own assumption
    as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always
    tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why
    weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is
    ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40: "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58: "Followup #2 ... My take is
    that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to YOU.
    Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that you're invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had ~half
    as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of your
    age difference. You've been asked for what level of net worth would be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age. Did you ever
    answer to that? Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your systematic dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money.


    -hh
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 10:20:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/25 08:42, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    ...
    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up >>>>>> front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me >>>>>> I would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who
    could validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old
    friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that friend
    was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could
    just pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later
    backtracked and said that had I actually planned to go you would tell
    me there was no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.


    No need to quote anything. Hugh admits he baited me with that story
    about a FAA "friend" in England.

    Another false allegation from Tommy, as I had simply stated facts.

    To further debunk Tommy, here's a personal photo of mine taken during
    one of my visits to his UK countryside home...FYI, I've piped through
    TinEye to show that it is unique and not stolen off of the internet like MuahMan used to do:

    <https://tineye.com/search/b47681166c569d1f8e7b5b50735db072c6a43205?tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1>


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 12:05:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 08:42, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    ...
    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 up >>>>>>> front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who told me >>>>>>> I would need to travel to England to see a friend of yours who
    could validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an old >>>>> friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that friend >>>>> was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could
    just pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later
    backtracked and said that had I actually planned to go you would
    tell me there was no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.


    No need to quote anything. Hugh admits he baited me with that story
    about a FAA "friend" in England.

    Another false allegation from Tommy, as I had simply stated facts.

    To further debunk Tommy, here's a personal photo of mine taken during
    one of my visits to his UK countryside home...FYI, I've piped through
    TinEye to show that it is unique and not stolen off of the internet like MuahMan used to do:

    <https://tineye.com/search/b47681166c569d1f8e7b5b50735db072c6a43205? tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1>


    -hh

    That is not exactly what I meant by baiting. The "baiting" for me was
    that you inferred FAA routinely examines pilot logbooks to validate
    entries. Not true. If it was true, and it is not, there is a local FAA
    office. No need to go to England.

    https://www.flyingmag.com/does-the-faa-punish-pilots-for-logbook-mistakes/

    FAA does examine logbook entries carefully if you are adding to your qualifications. This all came up when I shared the first page or two
    from my 1967 entries for initial training.

    Those WERE examined by an FAA examiner on 1/27/68 when I took my private
    check ride. All was found in order according to the standards in effect
    at the time. My flight instructor also carefully checked those same
    entries before he signed me off for the check ride on 1/20/68.

    I passed the private pilot oral exam and the check ride. I flew home as
    a private pilot.

    Anyway, there is no existing evidence for those flights other than my
    logbook. FAA has no way to question the entries.

    The next, and last, time the FAA has examined my logbook was on 8/23/85
    when I took and passed an instrument check ride.

    There might be other evidence for those hours. My instructor who signed
    me off is still living and had entries in his logbook for his dual instruction. Does he still have that logbook? Not sure. The FAA check
    pilot passed away over 20 years ago.

    That IFR upgrade was about 4,000 flight hours ago. I have passed
    numerous currency check rides since then and at this time am FAA current
    for passenger-carrying day & night VFR & IFR operations.

    Note: If you read the Flying magazine article note that requirements I
    had to meet for my private and instrument have changed significantly
    since I took the FAA check rides.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 12:55:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on
    right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router >>>>>> 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior
    version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock.
    Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to be >>>>> on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha"
    moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black
    Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday sale
    advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative attempt
    is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were mentioned to me.
    These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link which prompted a
    "do you need a new router?" question.  Similarly, a Wyze BF email for
    a <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?" question.  Even though
    everything's been okay, I took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always
    tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why
    weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is
    ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to YOU.
    Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that you're invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had ~half
    as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of your
    age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net worth would be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age.  Did you ever
    answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your systematic dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money.


    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong. Alan's LinkedIn profile says he
    started high school in 1975. If 18 then, he was born in 1957, and now
    ~68. I was born in 1946, so he is 11 years younger, not over 20.

    <redacted LinkedIn link> :)

    Alan left college after 1 year in 1981. 2025-1981 = 44 years of work potential. I left school after 8 years of college in 1972. I worked
    until I retired from consulting. 2025-1972 = 53 years max. But my last
    year of meaningful consulting income was 2022, 3 years ago, so 50
    working years. That's only 6 years difference. Last time I checked half
    of 51 is 20.5, not 44.

    When I was Alan's current age I as already at low 7 digit net worth. I
    was actively consulting on 10 projects that year and plowed the max into
    a 401K. I was not advertising for more work on LinkedIn, or anywhere for
    that matter.

    I think at least a million in net worth is more than sufficient for a 68
    year old single person. That would be about $1.4 million Canadian. But,
    that is far over what most people in the U.S. have achieved. The U.S.
    average is $1.79 million, but the median is $409,000. These numbers
    based Federal Reserve surveys are thin on actual data, so check this source:

    https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/smart-money/average-net-worth-by-age

    I feel for Alan, but he made his own decisions. I wish him no harm. I
    hope he is happy with the way things have turned out, but sense he is a
    very angry person.

    You and I are on similar tracks toward the inevitable end of the line.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 15:47:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/25 12:05, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 08:42, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    ...
    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 >>>>>>>> up front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who
    told me I would need to travel to England to see a friend of
    yours who could validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an
    old friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that >>>>>> friend was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could
    just pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later
    backtracked and said that had I actually planned to go you would
    tell me there was no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.

    No need to quote anything. Hugh admits he baited me with that story
    about a FAA "friend" in England.

    Another false allegation from Tommy, as I had simply stated facts.

    To further debunk Tommy, here's a personal photo of mine taken during
    one of my visits to his UK countryside home...FYI, I've piped through
    TinEye to show that it is unique and not stolen off of the internet
    like MuahMan used to do:

    <https://tineye.com/search/b47681166c569d1f8e7b5b50735db072c6a43205?
    tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1>


    -hh

    That is not exactly what I meant by baiting.

    No, that's a backpedal from you saying "friend" in scare quotes:

    once again you failed to realize that I have no need to lie since the
    truth is more devastating to you.


    The "baiting" for me was
    that you inferred FAA routinely examines pilot logbooks to validate
    entries.

    Nope. It was for an unofficial, off-the-record review. As Alan said,
    "Quote it": go find & provide the original with a Google Groups URL
    link for us all to read, in full context.


    Not true. If it was true, and it is not, there is a local FAA
    office. No need to go to England.

    Nope, because I had offered to call in a personal favor; its not my
    fault or problem that they didn't happen to live in your backyard.

    And had it gone down, you too might have been shanghaied into learning
    how to do horsehair plastering for his office conversion (one of those
    small headaches of having a historic register home worth over £1M).

    -hh
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Nov 30 16:33:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/25 12:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on >>>>>>> right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream Router >>>>>>> 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, the prior >>>>>>> version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out of stock. >>>>>>> Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to
    be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole? >>>>>
    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research... >>>>>
    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a "gotcha" >>>>> moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black >>>>>> Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday sale
    advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative
    attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were
    mentioned to me. These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link
    which prompted a "do you need a new router?" question.  Similarly, a >>>> Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?"
    question.  Even though everything's been okay, I took a look for
    opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always
    tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why
    weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is
    ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My take
    is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to YOU.
    Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that you're
    invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've
    specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of your
    age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net worth would
    be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age.  Did you ever
    answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your systematic
    dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money.


    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong.

    Nope, just dated to when your trolling started which was years ago.

    Alan's ... [all snipped due to invalid termination date]

    Go back to the year when you first started your trolling and see how
    those numbers work out to then, not 2025.

    For as I said, you never answered the question back then.


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 1 09:22:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/2025 4:33 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 12:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on >>>>>>>> right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream
    Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, >>>>>>>> the prior version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out >>>>>>>> of stock. Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K UHD >>>>>>>> webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to >>>>>>> be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole? >>>>>>
    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research... >>>>>>
    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a
    "gotcha" moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for
    Black Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday
    sale advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative >>>>> attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were
    mentioned to me. These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link
    which prompted a "do you need a new router?" question.  Similarly, >>>>> a Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?"
    question.  Even though everything's been okay, I took a look for
    opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy always >>>>> tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is why
    weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their cost is >>>>> ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you
    seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My take
    is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to
    YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that you're
    invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've
    specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of your
    age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net worth would
    be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age.  Did you
    ever answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your systematic
    dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money.


    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong.

    Nope, just dated to when your trolling started which was years ago.

    Alan's ... [all snipped due to invalid termination date]

    Go back to the year when you first started your trolling and see how
    those numbers work out to then, not 2025.

    For as I said, you never answered the question back then.


    -hh

    Total BS excuse. Read your own post.

    No brag here, only facts.

    "You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation."

    Back then? That is all PRESENT tense, not PAST tense. But it does not
    matter. You are still VERY wrong.

    Alan has NEVER been 20 years younger, more like 10 or 11. The difference
    in workforce entry is only 9 years. In 1992 Alan had 11 years of work to
    my 20. That's when he last had half the time in the workforce.

    The really different numbers are 1 and 8. That is years in college, 1
    for Alan, 8 for me. My PhD human capital investment opened opportunities
    that would NEVER have happened otherwise. It was THE investment that
    mattered more than all else that followed. I also earned my pilot's
    license while in college, all on my own. That human capital investment
    has paid off as well, but is not in my financial net worth numbers.

    I did not start any saving program until 1981, 2 years after joining Eli Lilly. Our net worth in on 1/1/81 was only the ~$12k equity in the
    house. After that I was in the Lilly Savings Plan, think Roth, that
    later became a 401k, and was receiving annual LLY stock matches for my contributions. Later even more Lilly benefits came.

    I kept records on the actual year-end balances. Why? In 1981 I did a
    simple compounding projection on my home PC in the then-new Lotus 123
    and tracked the results to see if it worked. It did in a big picture
    way. I still have that spreadsheet, now in an Excel file created 2/3/1996.

    Alan entered the workforce in 1981, same year as my entry into the Lilly savings program. The 12/31/81 my balance was only $4,521.

    After a few more years I was promoted and started receiving stock
    options and outright stock grants that were on top of the Savings Plan.
    By 1992 the total savings were about $200,000. That had grown to over $2 million a decade later, then a divorce, collapse in Lilly stock (~$90 to
    ~$55) that reduced my remaining options gains and Lilly stock value.

    Not a wipe-out, but a major setback. The 1981 plan worked once, why not
    again? 23 years on I can say it did. And no help from Lilly salary,
    stock or options. But also thanks in large part to some excellent help
    from a financial advisor.

    Bottom line your analysis is incomplete and your math skills are very
    poor. Incomplete from lack of important details, math because you tried
    to spin a false narrative that I saw through.

    The real lesson for anyone reading this is up-front capital investment, whether human or financial, is required for a good chance at life
    success. I think that maybe another difference is that I have heard Alan
    came from a well-to-do Toronto family. My family never had any savings
    and only a high school education. A financially successful family can be
    a handicap.

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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 1 11:59:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/1/25 09:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 4:33 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 12:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going on >>>>>>>>> right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream
    Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, >>>>>>>>> the prior version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly out >>>>>>>>> of stock. Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro 4K >>>>>>>>> UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem to >>>>>>>> be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, Asshole? >>>>>>>
    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing research... >>>>>>>
    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a
    "gotcha" moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for
    Black Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday
    sale advertisements were involved.  The problem with his narrative >>>>>> attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they were
    mentioned to me. These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 TP-Link >>>>>> which prompted a "do you need a new router?" question.  Similarly, >>>>>> a Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need more cameras?" >>>>>> question.  Even though everything's been okay, I took a look for >>>>>> opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy
    always tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt is >>>>>> why weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since their
    cost is ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you
    seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My take >>>> is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to
    YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that
    you're invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've
    specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of
    your age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net worth
    would be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age.  Did
    you ever answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your systematic
    dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money.


    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong.

    Nope, just dated to when your trolling started which was years ago.

    Alan's ... [all snipped due to invalid termination date]

    Go back to the year when you first started your trolling and see how
    those numbers work out to then, not 2025.

    For as I said, you never answered the question back then.


    -hh

    Total BS excuse. Read your own post.

    No brag here, only facts.

    "You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation."

    Back then? That is all PRESENT tense, not PAST tense. But it does not matter. You are still VERY wrong.

    No, it was your clue to check your math.:

    "Alan's LinkedIn profile says he started high school in 1975. If 18
    then, he was born in 1957, ..."

    Oh, so how many people **START** high school at age 18, hmmmm?

    In the US, a freshman starting 9th grade is typically age 14 or 15, and gradates 4.5 years later, usually at age 18.

    As such, a 1975 start nominally means born in 1960-61, not your 1957.

    Plus this assumes similarity to US education, which isn't necessarily
    so: in Canada, most Provinces consider secondary education to start in
    8th (some, 7th) grade: so it nominally means born in 1961-63. Not 1957.


    Alan has NEVER been 20 years younger, more like 10 or 11.

    More like 1946 to 1962 = 16 years.


    The difference in workforce entry is only 9 years. In 1992 Alan had
    11 years of work to my 20.

    Only if you totally ignore your pre-PhD jobs...right?

    [quote]
    1960-64 - delivered newspapers, Junior High and High School

    1965-1966 - Part time grocery store clerk during undergrad school, left
    for better pay and better job

    1966-1969 - Part time technician, City Planning Department (and
    undergrad school) left to go to grad school. This was a GREAT job, loved
    the work and it paid 4x minimum wage.

    1969-1972 - Grad school on NSF Fellowship, UT Knoxville, MS/PhD Ag
    Economics.

    1972-1975 - Assistant Prof Economics, No. KY State U, left due to
    contract termination...
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/h48mmyD0_-I/m/2qp5Ptgap1gJ>

    So by your above 1992 benchmark date, you'd already had various jobs for
    a period of 32 years (vs allegedly 11): a 21 year delta & a ~3:1 ratio.

    Plus even if we take off your high school gig, its still 27 years for a
    16 year delta & 2.5:1 ratio.

    It doesn't drop to 2:1 until 1997...but just how far back does your CSMA
    bit on this topic go back? Got its start date figured out yet?

    Point here is that very few PhD's have zero work experience prior to
    getting their terminal degree, including you.

    By your methodology of "counting", I can figuratively drop quite a few
    years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by comparison
    makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting ;-)



    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 1 12:50:09 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/1/2025 11:59 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/1/25 09:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 4:33 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 12:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going >>>>>>>>>> on right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream >>>>>>>>>> Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, >>>>>>>>>> the prior version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly >>>>>>>>>> out of stock. Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro >>>>>>>>>> 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem >>>>>>>>> to be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale,
    Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing
    research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a
    "gotcha" moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for >>>>>>>>> Black Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday >>>>>>> sale advertisements were involved.  The problem with his
    narrative attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they >>>>>>> were mentioned to me. These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 >>>>>>> TP-Link which prompted a "do you need a new router?" question. >>>>>>> Similarly, a Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need
    more cameras?" question.  Even though everything's been okay, I >>>>>>> took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy
    always tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt >>>>>>> is why weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since
    their cost is ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you
    seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My
    take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important >>>>> to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that
    you're invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often
    in comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has
    had ~half as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've
    specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of
    your age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net worth >>>>> would be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your age.  Did >>>>> you ever answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your
    systematic dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money. >>>>>

    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong.

    Nope, just dated to when your trolling started which was years ago.

    Alan's ... [all snipped due to invalid termination date]

    Go back to the year when you first started your trolling and see how
    those numbers work out to then, not 2025.

    For as I said, you never answered the question back then.


    -hh

    Total BS excuse. Read your own post.

    No brag here, only facts.

    "You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation."

    Back then? That is all PRESENT tense, not PAST tense. But it does not
    matter. You are still VERY wrong.

    No, it was your clue to check your math.:

    "Alan's LinkedIn profile says he started high school in 1975. If 18
    then, he was born in 1957, ..."

    Oh, so how many people **START** high school at age 18, hmmmm?

    In the US, a freshman starting 9th grade is typically age 14 or 15, and gradates 4.5 years later, usually at age 18.

    As such, a 1975 start nominally means born in 1960-61, not your 1957.

    Plus this assumes similarity to US education, which isn't necessarily
    so:  in Canada, most Provinces consider secondary education to start in
    8th (some, 7th) grade: so it nominally means born in 1961-63.  Not 1957.


    Alan has NEVER been 20 years younger, more like 10 or 11.

    More like 1946 to 1962 = 16 years.


    The difference in workforce entry is only 9 years. In 1992 Alan had 11
    years of work to my 20.

    Only if you totally ignore your pre-PhD jobs...right?

    [quote]
    1960-64 - delivered newspapers, Junior High and High School

    1965-1966 - Part time grocery store clerk during undergrad school, left
    for better pay and better job

    1966-1969 - Part time technician, City Planning Department (and
    undergrad school) left to go to grad school. This was a GREAT job, loved
    the work and it paid 4x minimum wage.

    1969-1972 - Grad school on NSF Fellowship, UT Knoxville, MS/PhD Ag Economics.

    1972-1975 - Assistant Prof Economics, No. KY State U, left due to
    contract termination...
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/h48mmyD0_-I/ m/2qp5Ptgap1gJ>

    So by your above 1992 benchmark date, you'd already had various jobs for
    a period of 32 years (vs allegedly 11): a 21 year delta & a ~3:1 ratio.

    Plus even if we take off your high school gig, its still 27 years for a
    16 year delta & 2.5:1 ratio.

    It doesn't drop to 2:1 until 1997...but just how far back does your CSMA
    bit on this topic go back?  Got its start date figured out yet?

    Point here is that very few PhD's have zero work experience prior to
    getting their terminal degree, including you.

    By your methodology of "counting", I can figuratively drop quite a few
    years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by comparison
    makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting  ;-)



    -hh

    My work experience prior to 1972 contributed zero to my savings, AND we
    do not have Alan's pre-college work record. Thus no way to compare based
    on this flaw in your timeline. We can compare post-college. My math is consistent with available data and correct.

    I don't don't have a clue when it all started. According to the Google
    Groups archive My first post was in 1997 and over 6000 posts through
    2/22/24. You know, so tell me.

    I do not doubt for one second that like millions of other people you may
    have done better than me over a similar timeline. Heck, there are 30ish
    year old tech billionaires out there. But that is not the comparison in question.

    I have posted recent images of SOME of my account balances. All we have
    is your word for yours. Not a bit of documentation. Given your history
    of deflection and deception your brag is worthless until proven.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 1 16:31:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/1/25 12:50, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/1/2025 11:59 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/1/25 09:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 4:33 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 12:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/29/25 16:41, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 4:20 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/28/25 17:49, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 13:40, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 3:38 PM, -hh wrote:

    BTW, Ubiquti is having a pretty good Black Friday sale going >>>>>>>>>>> on right now if you need anything; I'm picking up their Dream >>>>>>>>>>> Router 7; you may recall that I had been looking at it (well, >>>>>>>>>>> the prior version) back during CoVid, but it was constantly >>>>>>>>>>> out of stock. Figured I'd try it out, along with their G5 Pro >>>>>>>>>>> 4K UHD webcam.


    Hmmm, I looked up those 2 items on Amazon and they don't seem >>>>>>>>>> to be on sale there.

    Because if it's not on sale at Amazon, it can't be on sale, >>>>>>>>> Asshole?

    For a guy who claims (implicitly) to be capable of doing
    research...

    ...you seem to be utterly clueless.

    <https://store.ui.com/us/en/tags/black-friday?c=US>

    Took me 30 seconds to find.

    Or is it that you're more interested in trying to create a
    "gotcha" moment, Asshole?

    Ding, ding, ding!


    But since you seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for >>>>>>>>>> Black Friday...

    Something you just made up, you mean, Asshole.

    Yeah, we've seen this pattern before.

    Pretty much, despite Tommy guessing correctly that Black Friday >>>>>>>> sale advertisements were involved.  The problem with his
    narrative attempt is that I wasn't the one reading the ads: they >>>>>>>> were mentioned to me. These were a Wirecutter article for a $80 >>>>>>>> TP-Link which prompted a "do you need a new router?" question. >>>>>>>> Similarly, a Wyze BF email for a <$20 security cam was: "need >>>>>>>> more cameras?" question.  Even though everything's been okay, I >>>>>>>> took a look for opportunity's sake.


    You assume something (incorrectly) and then treat your own
    assumption as "proof" that it's correct.

    Well noted, for if there were money concerns like what Tommy
    always tries to allude, the problem with that narrative attempt >>>>>>>> is why weren't the above TP-Link & Wyze gear selected, since
    their cost is ~$400 less than the UI stuff?

    BTW, card inbound ..


    -hh

    Hugh, I'm pretty sure you do not have money issues.

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you >>>>>> seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My
    take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very
    important to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are >>>>>> you?"


    But I am sick and tired of you implying I do.

    If you're so sick & tired of discussing wealth, why is it that
    you're invariably who brings it up?

    You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often >>>>>> in comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has
    had ~half as many years of wealth accumulation.

    Tit-for-tat that was.

    Except that your 'revenge' is invalid.

    When you've pulled these dick-measuring brag attempts before, I've >>>>>> specifically noted that your comparisons were invalid because of
    your age difference.  You've been asked for what level of net
    worth would be appropriate for someone who's a fraction of your
    age.  Did you ever answer to that?  Nope.

    So until you do, you're at risk of being reminded of your
    systematic dishonesty whenever you start to try to brag about money. >>>>>>

    -hh

    LOL. Wow, your numbers are SO wrong.

    Nope, just dated to when your trolling started which was years ago.

    Alan's ... [all snipped due to invalid termination date]

    Go back to the year when you first started your trolling and see how
    those numbers work out to then, not 2025.

    For as I said, you never answered the question back then.


    -hh

    Total BS excuse. Read your own post.

    No brag here, only facts.

    "You're always desperately trying to make you look good, and often in
    comparison to Alan, who's ~2 decades younger than you and has had
    ~half as many years of wealth accumulation."

    Back then? That is all PRESENT tense, not PAST tense. But it does not
    matter. You are still VERY wrong.

    No, it was your clue to check your math.:

    "Alan's LinkedIn profile says he started high school in 1975. If 18
    then, he was born in 1957, ..."

    Oh, so how many people **START** high school at age 18, hmmmm?

    In the US, a freshman starting 9th grade is typically age 14 or 15,
    and gradates 4.5 years later, usually at age 18.

    As such, a 1975 start nominally means born in 1960-61, not your 1957.

    Plus this assumes similarity to US education, which isn't necessarily
    so:  in Canada, most Provinces consider secondary education to start
    in 8th (some, 7th) grade: so it nominally means born in 1961-63.  Not
    1957.


    Alan has NEVER been 20 years younger, more like 10 or 11.

    More like 1946 to 1962 = 16 years.


    The difference in workforce entry is only 9 years. In 1992 Alan had
    11 years of work to my 20.

    Only if you totally ignore your pre-PhD jobs...right?

    [quote]
    1960-64 - delivered newspapers, Junior High and High School

    1965-1966 - Part time grocery store clerk during undergrad school,
    left for better pay and better job

    1966-1969 - Part time technician, City Planning Department (and
    undergrad school) left to go to grad school. This was a GREAT job,
    loved the work and it paid 4x minimum wage.

    1969-1972 - Grad school on NSF Fellowship, UT Knoxville, MS/PhD Ag
    Economics.

    1972-1975 - Assistant Prof Economics, No. KY State U, left due to
    contract termination...
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/h48mmyD0_-I/
    m/2qp5Ptgap1gJ>

    So by your above 1992 benchmark date, you'd already had various jobs
    for a period of 32 years (vs allegedly 11): a 21 year delta & a ~3:1
    ratio.

    Plus even if we take off your high school gig, its still 27 years for
    a 16 year delta & 2.5:1 ratio.

    It doesn't drop to 2:1 until 1997...but just how far back does your
    CSMA bit on this topic go back?  Got its start date figured out yet?

    Point here is that very few PhD's have zero work experience prior to
    getting their terminal degree, including you.

    By your methodology of "counting", I can figuratively drop quite a few
    years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by comparison
    makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting  ;-)



    -hh

    My work experience prior to 1972 contributed zero to my savings, ...

    But it did contribute to you not increasing your debts, so you're trying
    to employ a pedantic dodge.

    ... AND we do not have Alan's pre-college work record. Thus no way to
    compare based on this flaw in your timeline. We can compare post-college.

    Or compare post-high school. Since your competitor didn't complete
    college, wouldn't that be a more fair comparison?

    My math is consistent with available data and correct.

    Except for how Alan entered high school as an 18 year old freshman? /s


    I don't don't have a clue when it all started. According to the Google Groups archive My first post was in 1997 and over 6000 posts through 2/22/24. You know, so tell me.

    I do not doubt for one second that like millions of other people you may have done better than me over a similar timeline. Heck, there are 30ish
    year old tech billionaires out there. But that is not the comparison in question.

    I have posted recent images of SOME of my account balances.

    Which also showed your total liquid net worth as $2,511,932.38 .. oops!

    All we have is your word for yours. Not a bit of documentation.

    Because your own 'screencap' couldn't be faked? Try again.

    Given your history of deflection and deception your brag is
    worthless until proven.

    Nah, you just didn't understand the point in that statement:

    "By your methodology of 'counting', I can figuratively drop quite a few
    years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by comparison
    makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting".

    The first part is a cut in the years of accumulation prior to the
    terminal degree, just as you did. You probably don't know how many (or
    few) years that is.

    The second part is an implied net worth comparable to your's (eg. your
    above value), but its not stated if it is under, equal, or over.

    The third part was something you've been reminded of it again in this
    thread: age-based differences in accumulation opportunities. That age difference is a handicap of many, many fewer years of accumulation as
    you've had at your age of 79, so even getting close to catching up is
    well "ahead of Tommy's schedule". That's where you very well may
    realized that your brag attempts have been found to be ... wanting.

    FYI, if more than merely catching up, that makes it even worse for you.

    So am I really bragging? Or just pointing out that maybe your total accumulation that you try to be so proud of is perhaps actually due to
    other factors, such as working a decade longer than the average American
    man, into your mid-70s.

    Nevertheless, I'll afford you a little peek at a lower limit, but only
    because I've already shared it with RSG's "the other Tom" six years ago:

    <https://huntzinger.com/photo/2019b/sliced.jpeg>


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 1 18:27:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/30/2025 3:47 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 12:05, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 10:20 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/30/25 08:42, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/28/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-28 14:55, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 10:27 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 11/26/25 13:35, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-26 09:39, Tom Elam wrote:
    ...
    I do not think you have anything useful. I think you want $150 >>>>>>>>> up front for nothing. After all, you are the same person who >>>>>>>>> told me I would need to travel to England to see a friend of >>>>>>>>> yours who could validate my pilot logbook.

    Quote please, Liarboy.

    He's whining again about an offer I made to see about asking an >>>>>>> old friend of mine to review his flight logs.  At the time, that >>>>>>> friend was a senior FAA official working & living in UK...

    It was more than that. You suggested that since I was rich I could >>>>>> just pop over with my logbook to show your "friend". You later
    backtracked and said that had I actually planned to go you would
    tell me there was no such friend there at that time.

    QUOTE IT, Asshole.

    No need to quote anything. Hugh admits he baited me with that story
    about a FAA "friend" in England.

    Another false allegation from Tommy, as I had simply stated facts.

    To further debunk Tommy, here's a personal photo of mine taken during
    one of my visits to his UK countryside home...FYI, I've piped through
    TinEye to show that it is unique and not stolen off of the internet
    like MuahMan used to do:

    <https://tineye.com/search/b47681166c569d1f8e7b5b50735db072c6a43205?
    tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1>


    -hh

    That is not exactly what I meant by baiting.

    No, that's a backpedal from you saying "friend" in scare quotes:

    once again you failed to realize that I have no need to lie since the
    truth is more devastating to you.


    The "baiting" for me was that you inferred FAA routinely examines
    pilot logbooks to validate entries.

    Nope.  It was for an unofficial, off-the-record review.  As Alan said, "Quote it":  go find & provide the original with a Google Groups URL
    link for us all to read, in full context.


    Not true. If it was true, and it is not, there is a local FAA office.
    No need to go to England.

    Nope, because I had offered to call in a personal favor; its not my
    fault or problem that they didn't happen to live in your backyard.

    And had it gone down, you too might have been shanghaied into learning
    how to do horsehair plastering for his office conversion (one of those
    small headaches of having a historic register home worth over £1M).

    -hh

    Wrong again, not "friend", disputing my entries.

    It would be impossible for anyone to argue with those 1967-68 entries.
    They are all within the capabilities of the C150 and the pilot.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 2 09:22:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/1/2025 4:31 PM, -hh wrote:
    Except for how Alan entered high school as an 18 year old freshman?  /s


    I don't don't have a clue when it all started. According to the Google
    Groups archive My first post was in 1997 and over 6000 posts through
    2/22/24. You know, so tell me.

    I do not doubt for one second that like millions of other people you
    may have done better than me over a similar timeline. Heck, there are
    30ish year old tech billionaires out there. But that is not the
    comparison in question.

    I have posted recent images of SOME of my account balances.

    Which also showed your total liquid net worth as $2,511,932.38 .. oops!

    That was some of the accounts, not all.


    All we have is your word for yours. Not a bit of documentation.

    Because your own 'screencap' couldn't be faked?  Try again.

    Really? Faked? That would be a lot of trouble. What do you want, my
    logon credentials?

    Prove they were faked. You cannot of course. But, you can say they are.
    That is what you do, ask for ever more evidence until the other party
    gives up.

    Given your history of deflection and deception your brag is worthless
    until proven.

    Nah, you just didn't understand the point in that statement:

    "By your methodology of 'counting', I can figuratively drop quite a few years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by comparison
    makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting".

    Like I said, I'm not comparing to you. You are far from alone in beating
    my financial performance. I was conservative, and we still have plenty
    to be comfortable from here to the end.


    The first part is a cut in the years of accumulation prior to the
    terminal degree, just as you did.  You probably don't know how many (or few) years that is.


    I do not for you, but for Alan I made a 5 year error yesterday or day
    before. Alan is actually about 63, not 68. Discovered that yesterday
    when I double-checked the arithmetic. The age difference is 16 years,
    not 11.

    In 1989 I was 18 years into full-time work, Alan was 9 years.

    So at 63 Alan claims a full time job at Digital Financial but looking
    for gig work too - Per LinkedIn. Bad optic.

    The second part is an implied net worth comparable to your's (eg. your
    above value), but its not stated if it is under, equal, or over.

    The number above is not the whole picture, by quite a bit.

    The third part was something you've been reminded of it again in this thread:  age-based differences in accumulation opportunities.  That age difference is a handicap of many, many fewer years of accumulation as
    you've had at your age of 79, so even getting close to catching up is
    well "ahead of Tommy's schedule".  That's where you very well may
    realized that your brag attempts have been found to be ... wanting.

    FYI, if more than merely catching up, that makes it even worse for you.

    My working post graduation working years were 1972-2002/3. But-for the
    divorce I could have retired in 2003 and had even better results. It
    took me a 10+ years to make that up and start to grow again vs prior
    high water mark. You can't put a $value on some things.

    So am I really bragging? Or just pointing out that maybe your total accumulation that you try to be so proud of is perhaps actually due to
    other factors, such as working a decade longer than the average American man, into your mid-70s.

    Again, the divorce. Don't go there if you can help it, or can't deal
    with the consequences. It was far from full-time most years. Paid a bit
    better than a full-time WalMart greeter job too. :)

    Actually not funny. One of my Lilly co-workers frittered away millions
    on bad investments did the greeter thing for a few years.

    Nevertheless, I'll afford you a little peek at a lower limit, but only because I've already shared it with RSG's "the other Tom" six years ago:
    That image says nothing. No row labels and many ######'d data cells.
    This image is junk, and maybe you faked it anyway.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 2 16:00:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 11/13/2025 9:19 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-11-13, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
    On 11/12/25 17:30, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-11-12 06:19, Tom Elam wrote:
    You have, in great detail, criticized my statistical modeling skills.
    Yet, you have offered no advice on how to improve the model I built
    for my home's 16 year history of electric use.

    It's time to put up or shut up. How would you construct such a model
    given that the only use data are monthly?

    I want a detailed specification of variables and functional form.
    Better yet, build your model for your house and publish it below.


    You're quite the whiny little asshole, aren't you?

    He absolutely is...

    ...for he's trying to hope that readers have forgotten that I did offer
    my consulting services, but he would have to pay (IRL $$) for them.



    -hh

    Consulting services?
    LAME.
    Even for you.
    A 3 line reply rather than your usual "War And Peace" rambling, boring post says it all hh.


    He claims to have thought this through and has great ideas for $150 an
    hour. It would take him all of 10 minutes to put his ideas in an reply.

    10 = .1667 of an hour. $150*.1667 = $900 an hour. Not even worth $150 to
    me. That is some serious BS.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 2 17:17:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/2/25 09:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/1/2025 4:31 PM, -hh wrote:
    Except for how Alan entered high school as an 18 year old freshman?  /s


    I don't don't have a clue when it all started. According to the
    Google Groups archive My first post was in 1997 and over 6000 posts
    through 2/22/24. You know, so tell me.

    I do not doubt for one second that like millions of other people you
    may have done better than me over a similar timeline. Heck, there are
    30ish year old tech billionaires out there. But that is not the
    comparison in question.

    I have posted recent images of SOME of my account balances.

    Which also showed your total liquid net worth as $2,511,932.38 .. oops!

    That was some of the accounts, not all.

    Oh, I know that you didn't reveal each individual account, because those listed fail to add up to the top line number. Specifically, there's
    ~$1.7M not shown; IIRC, that's roughly in line with your IRAs balances.
    You just didn't do a good enough job redacting your information as you apparently thought you did.


    All we have is your word for yours. Not a bit of documentation.

    Because your own 'screencap' couldn't be faked?  Try again.

    Really? Faked? That would be a lot of trouble. What do you want, my
    logon credentials?

    Prove they were faked. You cannot of course. But, you can say they are.
    That is what you do, ask for ever more evidence until the other party
    gives up.

    Not the point. The point was that your screenshot is "your word", not actually documentation. Since you've already accused me of not
    documenting and then did the same thing yourself, whatever degree of
    "proof" you want to try to demand from others, you must first live up to yourself, lest you be a hypocrite.

    Given your history of deflection and deception your brag is worthless
    until proven.

    Nah, you just didn't understand the point in that statement:

    "By your methodology of 'counting', I can figuratively drop quite a
    few years of earnings done prior to my highest degree, which by
    comparison makes your wealth brag attempts even more wanting".

    Like I said, I'm not comparing to you....

    Yet you have tried in the past. Now, you've retreated to only being
    willing to compare yourself as a joint income family to single (single
    income) individuals: golly, that's really honest & fair! /s


    The first part is a cut in the years of accumulation prior to the
    terminal degree, just as you did.  You probably don't know how many
    (or few) years that is.


    I do not for you, but for Alan I made a 5 year error yesterday or day before. Alan is actually about 63, not 68. Discovered that yesterday
    when I double-checked the arithmetic.

    Or...

    You actually realized your error from my post (12/1/2025 11:59) which
    you directly replied to, but avoided acknowledging your error.

    Plus you were reminded of this again (12/1/25 16:31) which you're
    replying to now and still is quoted (very first line).

    So which explanation sounds more credible: two explicit prompts in
    posts which you directly replied to without acknowledging, for which you
    know you'll invariably be hammered by me on, or this "...no, I found it completely on my own!" spin?


    The age difference is 16 years, not 11.

    Only if one also silently acknowledges that how it was pointed out to
    you that Canadian schools don't start in 9th grade like the USA...

    ...or are you going to "independently discover" & mention that tomorrow?


    In 1989 I was 18 years into full-time work, Alan was 9 years.

    [quote]
    1966-1969 - Part time technician, City Planning Department (and
    undergrad school) left to go to grad school. This was a GREAT job, loved
    the work and it paid 4x minimum wage.
    [/quote]

    Because the qualifier here is "full time", so as to exclude your years
    of work which Tom knows that he had while going to school which he knows
    that Alan couldn't have had, to cherrypick the time window in his favor.

    > So at 63 Alan claims a full time job at Digital Financial but looking
    for gig work too - Per LinkedIn. Bad optic.

    Why? Because one can't ever have jobs outside of working a 9-to-5?
    For I've been guilty of violating your "rule" on this too.


    The second part is an implied net worth comparable to your's (eg. your
    above value), but its not stated if it is under, equal, or over.

    The number above is not the whole picture, by quite a bit.

    Already accounted for by noting that the list was of just liquid assets,
    not total Net worth (to include house, cars, insurance, pensions, etc).

    The third part was something you've been reminded of it again in this
    thread:  age-based differences in accumulation opportunities.  That
    age difference is a handicap of many, many fewer years of accumulation
    as you've had at your age of 79, so even getting close to catching up
    is well "ahead of Tommy's schedule".  That's where you very well may
    realized that your brag attempts have been found to be ... wanting.

    FYI, if more than merely catching up, that makes it even worse for you.

    My working post graduation working years were 1972-2002/3.

    And there was income revenue generated prior to that which you're
    avoiding, even if we ignore the stuff prior to graduating high school.


    Nevertheless, I'll afford you a little peek at a lower limit, but only
    because I've already shared it with RSG's "the other Tom" six years ago:

    That image says nothing. No row labels and many ######'d data cells.

    It merely is what it is, generated six years ago.

    This image is junk, and maybe you faked it anyway.

    Except that you've already been reminded that I don't need to lie
    because the truth is invariably more devastating to you.

    Because what Tommy's trying to do is that despite how he's repeatedly mentioned his use of MS-Excel that he's somehow never learned that when
    a value is too large for a column's width, Excel uses ####'s to indicate
    a display overflow. Here, it means that that value is more than five
    digits, so its a lower limit paramaterization.


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 3 08:49:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/2/2025 5:17 PM, -hh wrote:
    Except that you've already been reminded that I don't need to lie
    because the truth is invariably more devastating to you.

    Because what Tommy's trying to do is that despite how he's repeatedly mentioned his use of MS-Excel that he's somehow never learned that when
    a value is too large for a column's width, Excel uses ####'s to indicate
    a display overflow.  Here, it means that that value is more than five digits, so its a lower limit paramaterization.

    I'll skip the BS about claiming I might not have posted real jpg's from brokerage account.

    Yes, I know all about how Excel columns work. The point is that I chose
    to show actual balances in actual accounts. You continue to make claims without any numerical evidence.

    So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point. I did.

    I do not recall ever saying I have done better than you financially. I
    have said that millions of people in my situation have done better than
    me. That could include you. And much better than either of us too.

    I'm going to look at a different goalpost. I have mentioned it before,
    the population of U.S. of about 130 million U.S. households.

    So how do we compare? As best I can determine my income and net worth
    are solidly in the 90th percentile. Some sources would put me barely
    into the 95th. If 95th about 6-7 million are in that group. If 90th 13 million. There are a lot of people in those households.

    But I am going to cherry-pick pick someone to compare you to.

    He was born in mid 1960's. Came from a broken family. Attended an Ivy
    League school. Graduated in the top of his class with a major in a very challenging field. So, younger than me, but a contemporary of you an Alan.

    Started his own company after a successful career in New York. He is in
    the financial 99.9th financial percentile today. You are failure
    compared to this guy. Do you feel like a failure now?

    Who cares. I don't. And I don't care if you have done better than me
    too. By my personal standards I have done just fine.




    Oh, it's Jeff Bebos.


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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 3 14:33:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Another response.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYse0Ix-sk

    I watch a few of this guy's videos. I think he frames the retiree
    categories well and points out that almost everybody behaves as if they
    are in more than one. Financially level 5 for me, a long ways from level
    6. Except for my new car addiction I spend and behave more like category 3.

    I have friends in level 5 and 6 that do follow his spending pattern
    except don't know anyone with a personal chef. Several have elevators, multiple high end homes and many use concierge docs. One has a
    beachfront home in Naples and an estate in Carmel. He travels back and
    forth via NetJets due to a disabling stroke that makes walking
    difficult. His wife (the trust fund kid) loves cooking. Great couple too.


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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 3 20:05:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/3/25 08:49, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/2/2025 5:17 PM, -hh wrote:
    Except that you've already been reminded that I don't need to lie
    because the truth is invariably more devastating to you.

    Because what Tommy's trying to do is that despite how he's repeatedly
    mentioned his use of MS-Excel that he's somehow never learned that
    when a value is too large for a column's width, Excel uses ####'s to
    indicate a display overflow.  Here, it means that that value is more
    than five digits, so its a lower limit paramaterization.

    I'll skip the BS about claiming I might not have posted real jpg's from brokerage account.

    Because you know "do as I say, not as I do" is a losing battle for you.


    Yes, I know all about how Excel columns work. The point is that I chose
    to show actual balances in actual accounts. You continue to make claims without any numerical evidence.

    No, just because you posted (accidentally?) unredacted balances does not create an obligation for others to make unredacted disclosures too.

    I've chosen to not reveal anything new, just what I've revealed prior.

    My evidence, even with some partially redacted via the #####'s, is just
    as credible as yours. It just better OPSEC to not give as much insight.


    So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point.

    Sorry, don't have it anymore because it was a snapshot in time of a
    living document. There's also zero value-added for me to try to
    reconstruct the values just to suit your insecurity-driven whims.

    I did.

    Nah, because your numbers show $1,704,517.51 to be missing.


    I do not recall ever saying I have done better than you financially.

    Better have your memory checked by your Doctor:

    June 9, 2017 at 10:39:41 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    So what you need to do is find a great paying job in a low cost
    housing area. I did.
    [quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/HENOVSrk5b8/m/djmDtMR-AAAJ>

    July 11, 2017 at 7:14:58 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    If I had to live in your tiny house and in small town NJ I'd be
    more likely to look for cheap international tickets and travel too!

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/0RW3QIyWW30/m/-oHRMbTKCQAJ>

    Plus many threads where you've tried to brag about your vacations...
    ...until you were compelled to reveal how many were subsidized, etc.


    So how do we compare?

    Simple: one chooses to not to. As has been noted before, mere wealth
    doesn't make one into a good person.


    Who cares. I don't.

    Except for how your many, many, many posts on yourself & money compared
    to others overtly prove otherwise. Likewise, there's also been:

    Jun 17, 2015, 11:18:41 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    Please take a 30 minute dive with 15 minutes of air.
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/K-gH7CgpLpM/m/iGTN8ta3w3EJ>



    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Dec 5 10:14:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/3/2025 8:05 PM, -hh wrote:
    Nah, because your numbers show $1,704,517.51 to be missing.

    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours. That makes me bad
    and you virtuous? Not.


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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Dec 5 13:36:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/5/25 10:14, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/3/2025 8:05 PM, -hh wrote:
    Nah, because your numbers show $1,704,517.51 to be missing.

    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    That makes me bad and you virtuous? Not.

    I didn't post a pic that says "all accounts". You did.

    Thus:

    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."

    ...applies to you.

    Again, you're stuck with your "do as I say, not as I do" losing battle.

    I've merely note that the sum of the individual accounts which you list
    values add up to be $1.7M short of the $2.5M "all accounts" total you
    also provided.


    Likewise, we also see in your reply herein that you chose to delete the following, obviously to try to avoid having to acknowledge it:

    [restored]

    I do not recall ever saying I have done better than you financially.

    Better have your memory checked by your Doctor:

    June 9, 2017 at 10:39:41 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    So what you need to do is find a great paying job in a low cost
    housing area. I did.
    [quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/HENOVSrk5b8/m/djmDtMR-AAAJ>

    July 11, 2017 at 7:14:58 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    If I had to live in your tiny house and in small town NJ I'd be
    more likely to look for cheap international tickets and travel too!

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/0RW3QIyWW30/m/-oHRMbTKCQAJ>

    Plus many threads where you've tried to brag about your vacations...
    ...until you were compelled to reveal how many were subsidized, etc.


    So how do we compare?

    Simple: one chooses to not to. As has been noted before, mere wealth
    doesn't make one into a good person.


    Who cares. I don't.

    Except for how your many, many, many posts on yourself & money compared
    to others overtly prove otherwise. Likewise, there's also been:

    Jun 17, 2015, 11:18:41 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    Please take a 30 minute dive with 15 minutes of air.
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/K-gH7CgpLpM/m/iGTN8ta3w3EJ>

    [/restored]

    So are you still going to try a "I don't remember saying that" claim?


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Dec 6 09:47:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion. That was all accounts at that
    one company. There are 4 of them. We have investments with other
    companies (and cash not shown) too. Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/view?usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Dec 6 21:11:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that
    one company. There are 4 of them. We have investments with other
    companies (and cash not shown) too. Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed, because
    your image shows five accounts, not four. There's the four obvious
    ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and $0.4K, plus
    there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because the
    above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line claims
    four accounts for $2.5M: $1,704,519 is not accounted for/undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh? /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions:

    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines look
    like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage
    double-counting. For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of $7,048.54
    + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is also $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well: where is the former's $39.1K HYSA
    in the latter? Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week?


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Dec 7 12:06:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. We
    have investments with other companies (and cash not shown) too.
    Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed, because
    your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the four obvious
    ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and $0.4K, plus
    there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because the
    above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line claims
    four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted for/undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/
    view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions:

    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines look
    like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage double- counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of $7,048.54 + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is also $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K HYSA
    in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week?


    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score! You will never see all details,
    but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/view?usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a credit
    union snapshot with 4 accounts. There are other brokerage and cash
    accounts. Stop trying to put is all together when you do not, and never
    will see, the total picture.

    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not any
    banking numbers. What you are saying is a major change in amounts is
    actually VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names
    hidden from you. There subtotals in the Excel image. Of course you are confused. The intent was not to inform.

    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you baiting
    with claims that I am bragging about my financial status. Honest person
    that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated more
    in less time that we have.

    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this here. You
    need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sun Dec 7 17:11:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/7/25 12:06, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. We
    have investments with other companies (and cash not shown) too.
    Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed, because
    your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the four obvious
    ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and $0.4K, plus
    there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because the
    above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line claims
    four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted for/undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/
    view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as
    your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions:

    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines look
    like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage double-
    counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of $7,048.54 +
    $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is also $54,223.21
    ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K
    HYSA in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week?


    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score!

    Tommy confesses that deception was actually his goal.

    You will never see all details, > but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/view? usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a credit
    union snapshot with 4 accounts.

    Incorrect, for you provided only one image.

    That you Photoshopped multiple images together doesn't change that the
    first says that its total is $2.511M

    Nor that we can sum the four CU accounts to get $55.8K, so even if your
    latest attempted explanation is accepted that these are in addition to
    the prior, its a "so what?" because adding the CU's $55.8K is just a
    minor +2% change.


    There are other brokerage and cash accounts.

    To which we're expected to believe that while Tommy's trying to make a
    maximal brag about himself that he chose to not include? Does not fly.


    Stop trying to put is all
    together when you do not, and never will see, the total picture.

    Yet that didn't stop you from trying to demand the total picture of others...hypocrite much?


    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not any
    banking numbers.

    Since you've already provided what you claimed were four credit union
    banking accounts, what sense does it make to do that?

    What you are saying is a major change in amounts is actually VERY
    VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names
    hidden from you. There subtotals in the Excel image. Of course you
    are confused. The intent was not to inform.

    Of course the intent was not to inform: it is to try to deceive.
    Notice how Tommy avoided acknowledging that at least two of his numbers
    were subtotals?


    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you baiting
    with claims that I am bragging about my financial status. Honest person
    that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    Just merely two deceptive documents (so far) & lying through omission:

    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."
    - Tom Elam, on 12/5/25 10:10


    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated
    more in less time that we have.

    Gosh, what a quick 180 turn, from just over a week ago, when Tommy was claiming the opposite (still!):

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40: "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same arrogant piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58: "Followup #2 ... My
    take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to
    YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this here. You need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

    Translation:
    Tommy knows that he's been caught (again) with his deception attempt, so instead of being honest & accountable, he's going to run away (again),
    in a futile effort to try to save face (again). Who's the fool again?

    TL;DR on all of this: assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s. Of course,
    the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has made some
    pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart & dumb alike.


    -hh

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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 8 15:12:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/7/2025 5:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/7/25 12:06, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. We
    have investments with other companies (and cash not shown) too.
    Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed, because
    your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the four obvious
    ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and $0.4K, plus
    there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because the
    above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line
    claims four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted for/
    undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/
    view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as
    your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions:

    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with 7
    digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines
    look like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage
    double- counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of
    $7,048.54 + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is also
    $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K
    HYSA in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week?


    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score!

    Tommy confesses that deception was actually his goal.

    You will never see all details, > but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/
    view? usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a credit
    union snapshot with 4 accounts.

    Incorrect, for you provided only one image.

    That you Photoshopped multiple images together doesn't change that the
    first says that its total is $2.511M

    Nor that we can sum the four CU accounts to get $55.8K, so even if your latest attempted explanation is accepted that these are in addition to
    the prior, its a "so what?" because adding the CU's $55.8K is just a
    minor +2% change.


    There are other brokerage and cash accounts.

    To which we're expected to believe that while Tommy's trying to make a maximal brag about himself that he chose to not include?  Does not fly.


    Stop trying to put is all together when you do not, and never will
    see, the total picture.

    Yet that didn't stop you from trying to demand the total picture of others...hypocrite much?


    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken
    has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not any
    banking numbers.

    Since you've already provided what you claimed were four credit union banking accounts, what sense does it make to do that?

    What you are saying is a major change in amounts is actually VERY
    VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names hidden
    from you. There subtotals in the Excel image.  Of course you are
    confused. The intent was not to inform.

    Of course the intent was not to inform:  it is to try to deceive. Notice how Tommy avoided acknowledging that at least two of his numbers were subtotals?


    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you baiting
    with claims that I am bragging about my financial status. Honest
    person that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    Just merely two deceptive documents (so far) & lying through omission:

    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."
     - Tom Elam, on 12/5/25 10:10


    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated
    more in less time that we have.

    Gosh, what a quick 180 turn, from just over a week ago, when Tommy was claiming the opposite (still!):

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same arrogant piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ... My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important to
    YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this here.
    You need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

    Translation:
    Tommy knows that he's been caught (again) with his deception attempt, so instead of being honest & accountable, he's going to run away (again),
    in a futile effort to try to save face (again).  Who's the fool again?

    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of course,
    the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has made some
    pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart & dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    So here is the reality.

    For years I have baited you with partial and confusing information that
    you continue to misinterpret in lengthy great detail as not being true.
    Every piece of data provided has been true as of the date and time
    posted. You have never seen the whole picture and never will. You have
    spent hours trying to figure it out, and never will. All your time on "analysis" has been pointless. LOL

    The only "brag" is not the dollars, it's that I have enticed you to
    spending all this time trying to get me to expose the entire package. No
    one other than my estate attorney, broker and wife have ever seen that
    total picture. You certainly never will. LOL

    I absolutely do not care what anyone in the tiny CSMA community thinks
    about me. That includes you. Or Liarboy Alan. In Quicken on the screen
    to my left is the total picture on the laptop screen. Just a screenshot, upload to Google Drive and posted here via a shared link away. All
    updated as of a few minutes ago. I know, so close and yet so far away.
    Not going to happen. LOL

    And, a big thank you to my broker and the equities markets!

    ROTFLMAF!!!!!
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 8 13:07:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-12-08 12:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of course,
    the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has made some
    pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart & dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    You should quit while you're behind, Asshole.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 8 16:37:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/8/25 15:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 5:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/7/25 12:06, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M.

    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. We
    have investments with other companies (and cash not shown) too.
    Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed,
    because your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the four
    obvious ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and
    $0.4K, plus there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because the
    above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line
    claims four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted for/
    undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/
    view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as
    your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions:

    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with
    7 digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines
    look like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage
    double- counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of
    $7,048.54 + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is also
    $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K
    HYSA in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week?


    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score!

    Tommy confesses that deception was actually his goal.

    You will never see all details, > but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/
    view? usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a
    credit union snapshot with 4 accounts.

    Incorrect, for you provided only one image.

    That you Photoshopped multiple images together doesn't change that the
    first says that its total is $2.511M

    Nor that we can sum the four CU accounts to get $55.8K, so even if
    your latest attempted explanation is accepted that these are in
    addition to the prior, its a "so what?" because adding the CU's $55.8K
    is just a minor +2% change.


    There are other brokerage and cash accounts.

    To which we're expected to believe that while Tommy's trying to make a
    maximal brag about himself that he chose to not include?  Does not fly.


    Stop trying to put is all together when you do not, and never will
    see, the total picture.

    Yet that didn't stop you from trying to demand the total picture of
    others...hypocrite much?


    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken
    has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not
    any banking numbers.

    Since you've already provided what you claimed were four credit union
    banking accounts, what sense does it make to do that?

    What you are saying is a major change in amounts is actually VERY
    VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names hidden
    from you. There subtotals in the Excel image.  Of course you are
    confused. The intent was not to inform.

    Of course the intent was not to inform:  it is to try to deceive.
    Notice how Tommy avoided acknowledging that at least two of his
    numbers were subtotals?


    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you baiting
    with claims that I am bragging about my financial status. Honest
    person that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    Just merely two deceptive documents (so far) & lying through omission:

    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."
      - Tom Elam, on 12/5/25 10:10


    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated
    more in less time that we have.

    Gosh, what a quick 180 turn, from just over a week ago, when Tommy was
    claiming the opposite (still!):

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you seem
    to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same arrogant piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ...
    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very important
    to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?"


    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this here.
    You need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

    Translation:
    Tommy knows that he's been caught (again) with his deception attempt,
    so instead of being honest & accountable, he's going to run away
    (again), in a futile effort to try to save face (again).  Who's the
    fool again?

    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of course,
    the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has made some
    pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart & dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    Which you still deliberately misrepresented.

    So here is the reality.

    For years I have baited you with partial and confusing information that
    you continue to misinterpret in lengthy great detail as not being true.

    Oh, we all know that you've posted many times your attempts to draw
    envious attention to yourself.

    Which has been pointed out by others, not just me:

    [quote]

    On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 8:20:53 AM UTC-7, Thomas E. wrote:
    ...
    Indeed...which is that it is always about bringing attention
    back to Tommy, lest anyone else ever get any credit where credit is
    due. ;-)

    Jealous?

    c'mon now tom. you're bragging about making close to 6 figures. based
    on hh's comments on travel and his pictures, and what he's posted on
    cars, once can reasonable guess that he likely is making a decent
    chunk more than you.

    [/quote]

    - ed, on Aug 23, 2016, 12:19:30 PM <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/9zaLEn2qC4Q/m/5iJH9xywDQAJ>

    Another example was your travel brag attempts, where you were trying to insinuate that your travel = your wealth, but was cut off at the knees.


    Every piece of data provided has been true as of the date and time
    posted.

    But also selectively cherry-picked to put you in best possible light.


    You have never seen the whole picture and never will. You have
    spent hours trying to figure it out, and never will. All your time on "analysis" has been pointless. LOL

    Nah, your cries for attention have shown how desperate you are. And
    even with your selectively chosen claims, you've built limits around
    what the 'whole' truth may be, which I've noted as paramaterizations.
    They hardly take much time at all, and is good practice for when my day
    job has called upon dissecting other less slimy contractors/consultants.


    The only "brag" is not the dollars, it's that I have enticed you to
    spending all this time trying to get me to expose the entire package.
    No one other than my estate attorney, broker and wife have ever seen
    that total picture. You certainly never will. LOL

    Nope, & irrelevant: I've merely noted you trying to demand the 'entire package' of others while you don't do the same yourself = hypocrite.

    I absolutely do not care what anyone in the tiny CSMA community thinks
    about me.

    But if that was actually true, then why are you posting ... yet again?


    That includes you. Or Liarboy Alan. In Quicken on the screen to my
    left is the total picture on the laptop screen. Just a screenshot,
    upload to Google Drive and posted here via a shared link away.

    Because you've repeatedly devalued your own reputation, your brag
    attempts are weaker & weaker, and less & less credible.

    This past week's example was your Excel ####'s where you repeatedly
    avoided admitting that some of your listed values were subtotals. So
    even if you were to post something more, what makes it any more credible
    than your prior deception attempts? Nothing.

    And, a big thank you to my broker and the equities markets!

    ROTFLMAF!!!!!

    That's profoundly missing the point I made, still quoted above:

    "Of course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike."


    -hh
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Mon Dec 8 16:54:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/8/25 16:07, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-12-08 12:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    You should quit while you're behind, Asshole.

    Tommy's a big meat bag of walking self-contradictions.

    At one point, he tries to brag about how he could go buy a Cessna, and
    then in Oct 2023 he whines about an "expensive" dentist bill, and that a "...major short-term stress [was] pre-pay for Canada and France trips."

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/IFme3FArIu0/m/9d7YTuxUAwAJ>

    Just something else that he'll conveniently claim to "not remember". /s


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 9 06:44:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/8/2025 4:07 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-12-08 12:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    You should quit while you're behind, Asshole.

    I have proof that you have been behind on something. Want that revealed?

    CSMA will never see the whole picture. Get over it.
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 9 06:48:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/8/2025 4:37 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/8/25 15:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 5:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/7/25 12:06, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M. >>>>>>
    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. We >>>>>> have investments with other companies (and cash not shown) too.
    Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed,
    because your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the four >>>>> obvious ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K and
    $0.4K, plus there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because
    the above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts" line >>>>> claims four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted for/
    undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/ >>>>>> view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted as >>>>> your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions: >>>>>
    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are, with >>>>> 7 digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines
    look like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage
    double- counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of
    $7,048.54 + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is
    also $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K >>>>> HYSA in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week? >>>>>

    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score!

    Tommy confesses that deception was actually his goal.

    You will never see all details, > but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/
    view? usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a
    credit union snapshot with 4 accounts.

    Incorrect, for you provided only one image.

    That you Photoshopped multiple images together doesn't change that
    the first says that its total is $2.511M

    Nor that we can sum the four CU accounts to get $55.8K, so even if
    your latest attempted explanation is accepted that these are in
    addition to the prior, its a "so what?" because adding the CU's
    $55.8K is just a minor +2% change.


    There are other brokerage and cash accounts.

    To which we're expected to believe that while Tommy's trying to make
    a maximal brag about himself that he chose to not include?  Does not
    fly.


    Stop trying to put is all together when you do not, and never will
    see, the total picture.

    Yet that didn't stop you from trying to demand the total picture of
    others...hypocrite much?


    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken
    has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not
    any banking numbers.

    Since you've already provided what you claimed were four credit union
    banking accounts, what sense does it make to do that?

    What you are saying is a major change in amounts is actually VERY
    VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names hidden
    from you. There subtotals in the Excel image.  Of course you are
    confused. The intent was not to inform.

    Of course the intent was not to inform:  it is to try to deceive.
    Notice how Tommy avoided acknowledging that at least two of his
    numbers were subtotals?


    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you baiting
    with claims that I am bragging about my financial status. Honest
    person that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    Just merely two deceptive documents (so far) & lying through omission:

    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."
      - Tom Elam, on 12/5/25 10:10


    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated
    more in less time that we have.

    Gosh, what a quick 180 turn, from just over a week ago, when Tommy
    was claiming the opposite (still!):

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you
    seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same arrogant piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup #2 ...
    My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very
    important to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are you?" >>>

    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this here.
    You need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

    Translation:
    Tommy knows that he's been caught (again) with his deception attempt,
    so instead of being honest & accountable, he's going to run away
    (again), in a futile effort to try to save face (again).  Who's the
    fool again?

    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated a
    bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    Which you still deliberately misrepresented.

    So here is the reality.

    For years I have baited you with partial and confusing information
    that you continue to misinterpret in lengthy great detail as not being
    true.

    Oh, we all know that you've posted many times your  attempts to draw envious attention to yourself.

    Which has been pointed out by others, not just me:

    [quote]

    On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 8:20:53 AM UTC-7, Thomas E. wrote:
    ...
    Indeed...which is that it is always about bringing attention
    back to Tommy, lest anyone else ever get any credit where credit is
    due. ;-)

    Jealous?

    c'mon now tom. you're bragging about making close to 6 figures. based
    on hh's comments on travel and his pictures, and what he's posted on
    cars, once can reasonable guess that he likely is making a decent
    chunk more than you.

    [/quote]

    - ed, on Aug 23, 2016, 12:19:30 PM <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/9zaLEn2qC4Q/ m/5iJH9xywDQAJ>

    Another example was your travel brag attempts, where you were trying to insinuate that your travel = your wealth, but was cut off at the knees.


    Every piece of data provided has been true as of the date and time
    posted.

    But also selectively cherry-picked to put you in best possible light.


    You have never seen the whole picture and never will. You have spent
    hours trying to figure it out, and never will. All your time on
    "analysis" has been pointless. LOL

    Nah, your cries for attention have shown how desperate you are.  And
    even with your selectively chosen claims, you've built limits around
    what the 'whole' truth may be, which I've noted as paramaterizations.
    They hardly take much time at all, and is good practice for when my day
    job has called upon dissecting other less slimy contractors/consultants.


    The only "brag" is not the dollars, it's that I have enticed you to
    spending all this time trying to get me to expose the entire package.
    No one other than my estate attorney, broker and wife have ever seen
    that total picture. You certainly never will. LOL

    Nope, & irrelevant:  I've merely noted you trying to demand the 'entire package' of others while you don't do the same yourself = hypocrite.

    I absolutely do not care what anyone in the tiny CSMA community thinks
    about me.

    But if that was actually true, then why are you posting ... yet again?


    That includes you. Or Liarboy Alan. In Quicken on the screen to my
    left is the total picture on the laptop screen. Just a screenshot,
    upload to Google Drive and posted here via a shared link away.

    Because you've repeatedly devalued your own reputation, your brag
    attempts are weaker & weaker, and less & less credible.

    This past week's example was your Excel ####'s where you repeatedly
    avoided admitting that some of your listed values were subtotals.  So
    even if you were to post something more, what makes it any more credible than your prior deception attempts?  Nothing.

    And, a big thank you to my broker and the equities markets!

    ROTFLMAF!!!!!

    That's profoundly missing the point I made, still quoted above:

    "Of course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike."


    -hh

    I don't owe you anything. I never deceived anybody. Everything I posted
    on this topic is true, but incomplete. Even if I did show it all you
    would claim it is falsified. Can't win, can I?
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 9 09:33:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/9/25 06:44, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 4:07 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-12-08 12:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated
    a bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    You should quit while you're behind, Asshole.

    I have proof that you have been behind on something. Want that revealed?


    No other way to put it:

    Tom Elam tries to make a blackmail threat.

    FWIW, I can recall years ago in a different newsgroup where a poster
    similarly started to irrationally lash out, including falsely accusing
    another poster of raping their own daughter.

    That was when those newsgroup decided to contact that poster's wife.
    Wife revoked his internet access for the rest of his life.


    -hh
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Dec 9 09:41:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/9/25 06:48, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 4:37 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/8/25 15:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/7/2025 5:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/7/25 12:06, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/6/2025 9:11 PM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/6/25 09:47, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/5/2025 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
    LOL, it was just a partial picture. Just like yours.


    Except that it clearly says "all accounts" with a total of $2.51M. >>>>>>>
    Here again you jump to a bogus conclusion.

    Nope, for I'm not who posted a pic which said "All accounts".

    That was all accounts at that one company. There are 4 of them. >>>>>>> We have investments with other companies (and cash not shown)
    too. Imagine that! Apparently you cannot.

    That claim doesn't square with what your own image displayed,
    because your image shows five accounts, not four.  There's the
    four obvious ones, with claimed balances of $5.5K, $10.8K, $39K
    and $0.4K, plus there's also "Individual Brokerage-2955" wtih
    $751.6K.

    Plus as I've said before, there's ~$1.7M unaccounted for because
    the above five accounts sum to $807.4K, but the "All Accounts"
    line claims four accounts for $2.5M:  $1,704,519 is not accounted >>>>>> for/ undocumented.

    Hmmm...maybe there was a Photoshop job done here, eh?  /s


    To make you happy here are all of our investment accounts:

    https://drive.google.com/file/
    d/1UevoIJ1SUe26Zq0XadMqEpgldjtJEq3B/ view? usp=sharing

    As of today, formatted just for you.

    Funny how none of the balances are even close to what you posted
    as your balances on just seven days ago.

    Funny how you're guilty of YA "do as I say, not as I do"...
    ...because you showed five digits, contrary to your own instructions: >>>>>>
    "So show us your numbers, with some details on where they are,
    with 7 digits on the left of the decimal point. I did."

    Plus the second brag attempt is fishy smelling too, as some lines >>>>>> look like subtotals, possibly as a deception to try to encourage
    double- counting.  For example, $14,186.87 is the exact sum of
    $7,048.54 + $7,138.33 values listed immediately below it, as is
    also $54,223.21 ($26,945.97 + $27,227.24).

    Plus despite being allegedly of the same accounts, the two brags
    attempts don't appear to align well:  where is the former's $39.1K >>>>>> HYSA in the latter?  Did it drop by ~$12K in value in just one week? >>>>>>

    -hh

    LOL! You are totally confused. Score!

    Tommy confesses that deception was actually his goal.

    You will never see all details, > but look at this again:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/145PxsEKUioG_HkUEKF8mzkUZQx_wsZqB/
    view? usp=sharing

    The first image is a brokerage with 4 accounts. The second is a
    credit union snapshot with 4 accounts.

    Incorrect, for you provided only one image.

    That you Photoshopped multiple images together doesn't change that
    the first says that its total is $2.511M

    Nor that we can sum the four CU accounts to get $55.8K, so even if
    your latest attempted explanation is accepted that these are in
    addition to the prior, its a "so what?" because adding the CU's
    $55.8K is just a minor +2% change.


    There are other brokerage and cash accounts.

    To which we're expected to believe that while Tommy's trying to make
    a maximal brag about himself that he chose to not include?  Does not >>>> fly.


    Stop trying to put is all together when you do not, and never will
    see, the total picture.

    Yet that didn't stop you from trying to demand the total picture of
    others...hypocrite much?


    Yes, the carefully redacted Excel version I downloaded from Quicken >>>>> has different numbers. That is because it is investments only, not
    any banking numbers.

    Since you've already provided what you claimed were four credit
    union banking accounts, what sense does it make to do that?

    What you are saying is a major change in amounts is actually VERY
    VERY different accounts, investments not cash, with the names
    hidden from you. There subtotals in the Excel image.  Of course you >>>>> are confused. The intent was not to inform.

    Of course the intent was not to inform:  it is to try to deceive.
    Notice how Tommy avoided acknowledging that at least two of his
    numbers were subtotals?


    The only way this ever go started in the first place was you
    baiting with claims that I am bragging about my financial status.
    Honest person that I am I tried to show I'm not lying.

    Just merely two deceptive documents (so far) & lying through omission: >>>>
    "Throwing out misleading and irreverent numbers to impress others.
    Bad, very bad."
      - Tom Elam, on 12/5/25 10:10


    I could care less that you are among the many who have accumulated
    more in less time that we have.

    Gosh, what a quick 180 turn, from just over a week ago, when Tommy
    was claiming the opposite (still!):

    Right side of Tommy's piehole, on 11/28/25 16:40:  "But since you
    seem to need $120 SO badly you had to wait for Black Friday..."

    Likewise, same arrogant piehole, on 11/28/25 10:58:  "Followup
    #2 ... My take is that in actual reality that $120 seems to be very
    important to YOU. Needing that for groceries or utility bills, are
    you?"


    Your amateurish attempts to reconcile incomplete and seemingly
    inconsistent data, all of which are accurate by themselves, are
    hilarious, never ending, and fruitless. I'm going to stop this
    here. You need to give it up too. You are being made a fool.

    Translation:
    Tommy knows that he's been caught (again) with his deception
    attempt, so instead of being honest & accountable, he's going to run
    away (again), in a futile effort to try to save face (again).  Who's >>>> the fool again?

    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided
    about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated
    a bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has
    made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart &
    dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    Which you still deliberately misrepresented.

    So here is the reality.

    For years I have baited you with partial and confusing information
    that you continue to misinterpret in lengthy great detail as not
    being true.

    Oh, we all know that you've posted many times your  attempts to draw
    envious attention to yourself.

    Which has been pointed out by others, not just me:

    [quote]

    On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 8:20:53 AM UTC-7, Thomas E. wrote:
    ...
    Indeed...which is that it is always about bringing attention
    back to Tommy, lest anyone else ever get any credit where credit
    is  >> due. ;-)
    ;
    Jealous?

    c'mon now tom. you're bragging about making close to 6 figures. based
    on hh's comments on travel and his pictures, and what he's posted on
    cars, once can reasonable guess that he likely is making a decent
    chunk more than you.

    [/quote]

    - ed, on Aug 23, 2016, 12:19:30 PM
    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/9zaLEn2qC4Q/
    m/5iJH9xywDQAJ>

    Another example was your travel brag attempts, where you were trying
    to insinuate that your travel = your wealth, but was cut off at the
    knees.


    Every piece of data provided has been true as of the date and time
    posted.

    But also selectively cherry-picked to put you in best possible light.


    You have never seen the whole picture and never will. You have spent
    hours trying to figure it out, and never will. All your time on
    "analysis" has been pointless. LOL

    Nah, your cries for attention have shown how desperate you are.  And
    even with your selectively chosen claims, you've built limits around
    what the 'whole' truth may be, which I've noted as paramaterizations.
    They hardly take much time at all, and is good practice for when my
    day job has called upon dissecting other less slimy contractors/
    consultants.


    The only "brag" is not the dollars, it's that I have enticed you to
    spending all this time trying to get me to expose the entire package.
    No one other than my estate attorney, broker and wife have ever seen
    that total picture. You certainly never will. LOL

    Nope, & irrelevant:  I've merely noted you trying to demand the
    'entire package' of others while you don't do the same yourself =
    hypocrite.

    I absolutely do not care what anyone in the tiny CSMA community
    thinks about me.

    But if that was actually true, then why are you posting ... yet again?


    That includes you. Or Liarboy Alan. In Quicken on the screen to my
    left is the total picture on the laptop screen. Just a screenshot,
    upload to Google Drive and posted here via a shared link away.

    Because you've repeatedly devalued your own reputation, your brag
    attempts are weaker & weaker, and less & less credible.

    This past week's example was your Excel ####'s where you repeatedly
    avoided admitting that some of your listed values were subtotals.  So
    even if you were to post something more, what makes it any more
    credible than your prior deception attempts?  Nothing.

    And, a big thank you to my broker and the equities markets!

    ROTFLMAF!!!!!

    That's profoundly missing the point I made, still quoted above:

    "Of course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+
    has made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart
    & dumb alike."


    -hh

    I don't owe you anything.

    Yet you demand it of others. Hypocrite.

    I never deceived anybody. Everything I posted
    on this topic is true, but incomplete.


    You've already admitted in this thread that you've deliberately "baited"
    with your selective cherry-picking. That's deliberate deception.


    Even if I did show it all you
    would claim it is falsified. Can't win, can I?

    One succeeds by knowing better: not bragging about their income, net
    worth, car they drive, trophy house(s), etc.


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 10 08:26:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/9/2025 9:41 AM, -hh wrote:
    I never deceived anybody. Everything I posted on this topic is true,
    but incomplete.


    You've already admitted in this thread that you've deliberately "baited" with your selective cherry-picking.  That's deliberate deception.


    LOL, it was all true. This started out with your criticism of my
    regression model.


    Even if I did show it all you would claim it is falsified. Can't win,
    can I?

    So next you deflect with the answer below. The person who would never
    admit that scuba and snorkel both have to involve diving would never
    admit that anything I showed in this context is accurate.


    One succeeds by knowing better:  not bragging about their income, net worth, car they drive, trophy house(s), etc.

    My income and net worth details are not known to anyone outside my wife,
    a lawyer and a broker/investment advisor. You are the only person on
    this planet who has ever even inquired. You are the one who, when
    informed I bought a Subaru said it could have been a Porsche. You are
    the one who labeled my house as a tract home, now it's a trophy home.
    Tract home is correct. Nothing special in a part of Carmel full of $1+
    million mansions. Compared to Alan's 500 sq ft Vancouver condo you might
    be right, but in this area! Hypocrite!
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 10 08:31:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/9/2025 9:33 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/9/25 06:44, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/8/2025 4:07 PM, Alan wrote:
    On 2025-12-08 12:12, Tom Elam wrote:
    TL;DR on all of this:  assuming minimal forgeries, Tommy's provided >>>>> about the best evidence seen to date that he's probably accumulated >>>>> a bit over $2.5M after having worked into his mid/upper-70s.  Of
    course, the Stock Market's long Bull run over the past ~decade+ has >>>>> made some pretty big gains on paper for a lot of folks, both smart
    & dumb alike.


    -hh

    No again Hugh, That was 2 JPG screenshots on a Word page.

    You should quit while you're behind, Asshole.

    I have proof that you have been behind on something. Want that revealed?


    No other way to put it:

    Tom Elam tries to make a blackmail threat.

    FWIW, I can recall years ago in a different newsgroup where a poster similarly started to irrationally lash out, including falsely accusing another poster of raping their own daughter.

    That was when those newsgroup decided to contact that poster's wife.
    Wife revoked his internet access for the rest of his life.


    -hh

    I just asked Alan if he would like to have some documents revealed. If
    he approves I'll post them, all of them, obtained in the public domain.
    Unless he approves they will stay private.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 10 15:24:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/10/25 08:26, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/9/2025 9:41 AM, -hh wrote:
    I never deceived anybody. Everything I posted on this topic is true,
    but incomplete.


    You've already admitted in this thread that you've deliberately
    "baited" with your selective cherry-picking.  That's deliberate
    deception.


    LOL, it was all true.

    That it is true is what "selective cherry-picking" means.

    This started out with your criticism of my regression model.

    Nah, your manipulation of data behavior started years & years ago.

    For your latest on your electrical consumption vs one appliance in your
    house, as I said a month ago which you've never disputed was:

    "It is clear that you've merely dabbled with the data that was the
    easiest for you to collect and are making excuses for everything else."

    and:

    "...your 'results' speaking was evident in the first graph you provide:
    it had quite a bit of scatter from factors you weren't bothering to
    control for. Since you've not improved the dataset, all you've done is
    to massage the existing datapoints into masking all of that variance."

    That was your free roadmap for improving your work; if you need more hand-holding, that's where I drew the line - - and because you're a
    welshing risk, it is just like Trump: "payable in advance".


    Even if I did show it all you would claim it is falsified. Can't win,
    can I?

    So next you deflect with the answer below. The person who would never
    admit that scuba and snorkel both have to involve diving would never
    admit that anything I showed in this context is accurate.


    No, you were shown to be wrong, which is why you lashed out with your
    "...30 minute dive with 15 minutes of air." death wish insult attempt.


    One succeeds by knowing better:  not bragging about their income, net
    worth, car they drive, trophy house(s), etc.

    My income and net worth details are not known to anyone outside my wife,
    a lawyer and a broker/investment advisor. You are the only person on
    this planet who has ever even inquired.


    Inquired? Nope.
    Called you out on the holes in your lame brag attempts? Yup!


    You are the one who, when informed I bought a Subaru said it
    could have been a Porsche.

    For YOLO applies, and based on what you've said/done, you've barely
    increased your travel budget. Plus you're ignoring how you tried to
    brag about being wealthy enough to write a check to buy a Cessna.
    Tiny Tim hopes that you learn something during the holidays, Scrooge /s

    You are
    the one who labeled my house as a tract home, now it's a trophy home.
    Tract home is correct. Nothing special in a part of Carmel full of $1+ million mansions. Compared to Alan's 500 sq ft Vancouver condo you might
    be right, but in this area!

    If it really is so humble, then you wouldn't be trying to compare
    yourself to an urban condo...right? /s

    Hypocrite!

    False, because once again you're only trying to elevate yourself by
    pushing others down, and it hasn't been only Alan you've tried this on:

    July 11, 2017 at 7:14:58 PM UTC-4, Thomas E. wrote:
    [quote]
    If I had to live in your tiny house and in small town NJ I'd be
    more likely to look for cheap international tickets and travel too!
    [/quote]

    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/0RW3QIyWW30/m/-oHRMbTKCQAJ>


    Your constant need to somehow prove yourself - is all of your own doing.



    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Dec 10 17:22:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/10/2025 3:24 PM, -hh wrote:
    "...your 'results' speaking was evident in the first graph you provide:
    it had quite a bit of scatter from factors you weren't bothering to
    control for.  Since you've not improved the dataset, all you've done is
    to massage the existing datapoints into masking all of that variance."

    Yes, but that scatter was only 1 variable, OAT, that affects kWh used. A
    major part of that apparent scatter was that there were other
    independent variables in hand at the time but not controlled in the
    scatter plot. When the additional independent variables are introduced
    the kWh variance was significantly reduced. The main ones are changes we
    made in the house that reduced energy lost rate and thus energy required
    to maintain temperature. Those changes are documented by date and expense.

    No data were "massaged" other than a ln transform of the dependent
    variable. And that only increased t scores for the independent variables.

    I'm doubting if you every built a regression model.

    Next

    Inquired? Nope.
    Called you out on the holes in your lame brag attempts? Yup!

    Which is the same as asking for more to fill in the "holes".

    Next

    You are the one who labeled my house as a tract home, now it's a
    trophy home. Tract home is correct. Nothing special in a part of Carmel
    full of $1+ million mansions. Compared to Alan's 500 sq ft Vancouver
    condo you might be right, but in this area!

    If it really is so humble, then you wouldn't be trying to compare
    yourself to an urban condo...right? /s

    Wrong. In the Vancouver market my home is a "trophy" worth well over $1 million. Not here, where housing is much more affordable. On my income
    my house in Vancouver would be a stretch. Here I can easily affordable it.

    You can't keep your apples and oranges straight.

    Next - travel

    We traveled a record number of days this year, almost 3 months. Not
    because of you, because of some great opportunities. Already planned 2
    weeks in France next year, 2 weeks at Beaver creek and some time in
    Florida. More to come.

    Travel has to compete for time doing other things, after all.
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Thu Dec 11 08:03:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/10/25 17:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/10/2025 3:24 PM, -hh wrote:
    "...your 'results' speaking was evident in the first graph you
    provide: it had quite a bit of scatter from factors you weren't
    bothering to control for.  Since you've not improved the dataset, all
    you've done is to massage the existing datapoints into masking all of
    that variance."

    Yes, but that scatter was only 1 variable, OAT, that affects kWh used.

    Which you represented as your work product, not your starting point.

    Cherry-picking again, with what you choose to lie through omissions.


    A major part of that apparent scatter was that there were other
    independent variables in hand at the time but not controlled in the
    scatter plot. When the additional independent variables are introduced
    the kWh variance was significantly reduced.

    Not documented then, and adding in additional variables can help to
    tighten up a correlation, but it depends on how the weighing factors are tweaked...but that doesn't mean that there's solid scientific principles
    which justify the weighting factor values: over time, one learns who's
    the better cheat by if the factors are based on optimizing the
    correlation versus having solid scientific principles for their value.


    The main ones are changes we
    made in the house that reduced energy lost rate and thus energy required
    to maintain temperature. Those changes are documented by date and expense.

    Just because you used some obvious potential variables isn't proof that
    you couldn't have missed others which were less obvious/easy.

    The statistics joke is that you're searching for your lost quarter under
    the streetlight, not where the quarter was actually dropped.


    No data were "massaged" other than ...

    "Other than" is the confession.


    I'm doubting if you every built a regression model.

    Whereas I'm seeing better why you had to work into your upper 70s.


    Inquired?  Nope.
    Called you out on the holes in your lame brag attempts?  Yup!

    Which is the same as asking for more to fill in the "holes".

    Nope: you chose to try to fill in your discrepancies. No one came to
    your house and put a gun to your head to force you to post.

    You are the one who labeled my house as a tract home, now it's a
    trophy home. Tract home is correct. Nothing special in a part of Carmel
    full of $1+ million mansions. Compared to Alan's 500 sq ft Vancouver
    condo you might be right, but in this area!

    If it really is so humble, then you wouldn't be trying to compare
    yourself to an urban condo...right?  /s

    Wrong. In the Vancouver market my home is a "trophy" worth well over $1 million. Not here, where housing is much more affordable.

    Oh, so what you actually meant to say was that your "$1M" claim actually
    was how much it could be worth in Vancouver if it got teleported there.


    We traveled a record number of days this year, almost 3 months. Not
    because of you, because of some great opportunities.

    Oh so then you're admitting that your prior insult attempt of:

    "If I had to live in your tiny house and in small town NJ I'd be
    more likely to look for cheap international tickets and travel too!"

    ...when you're doing it, changes to looking for "great opportunities" /s

    Ironic that the statement came right after you admitted that your
    current housing is 'more affordable'.

    Of course, considering Tommy's history & style of cherry-picking and stretching of things like what's "almost", a brag attempt of "almost 3
    months" could be as modest as just (2 months + 1 day) = 61 days.


    Already planned 2 weeks in France next year, 2 weeks at Beaver creek
    and some time in Florida. More to come.

    So 2026's looking to be another cheap year, at least so far.


    Travel has to compete for time doing other things, after all.

    Unfortunately the case. Disruptions from unexpected health issues are
    an increasingly common factor as one gets older, for example. And some
    folk will be tempted to count days in the hospital as "vacation away" /s


    -hh
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Sat Dec 13 09:13:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 12/11/2025 8:03 AM, -hh wrote:
    On 12/10/25 17:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 12/10/2025 3:24 PM, -hh wrote:
    "...your 'results' speaking was evident in the first graph you
    provide: it had quite a bit of scatter from factors you weren't
    bothering to control for.  Since you've not improved the dataset, all
    you've done is to massage the existing datapoints into masking all of
    that variance."

    Yes, but that scatter was only 1 variable, OAT, that affects kWh used.

    Which you represented as your work product, not your starting point.

    Not true, you made an assumption.


    Cherry-picking again, with what you choose to lie through omissions.


    A major part of that apparent scatter was that there were other
    independent variables in hand at the time but not controlled in the
    scatter plot. When the additional independent variables are introduced
    the kWh variance was significantly reduced.

    Not documented then, and adding in additional variables can help to
    tighten up a correlation, but it depends on how the weighing factors are tweaked...but that doesn't mean that there's solid scientific principles which justify the weighting factor values:  over time, one learns who's
    the better cheat by if the factors are based on optimizing the
    correlation versus having solid scientific principles for their value.


    The main ones are changes we made in the house that reduced energy
    lost rate and thus energy required to maintain temperature. Those
    changes are documented by date and expense.

    Just because you used some obvious potential variables isn't proof that
    you couldn't have missed others which were less obvious/easy.

    I tried other variables, home changes made and environmental.


    The statistics joke is that you're searching for your lost quarter under
    the streetlight, not where the quarter was actually dropped.

    So where did the quarter drop?


    I'm doubting if you every built a regression model.

    Whereas I'm seeing better why you had to work into your upper 70s.

    LOL, the main reason was a divorce at age 56.


    Wrong. In the Vancouver market my home is a "trophy" worth well over
    $1 million. Not here, where housing is much more affordable.

    Oh, so what you actually meant to say was that your "$1M" claim actually
    was how much it could be worth in Vancouver if it got teleported there.

    What $1 million claim for my home? I live in an area populated by entire subdivisions and individual $1+ million homes.



    Of course, considering Tommy's history & style of cherry-picking and stretching of things like what's "almost", a brag attempt of "almost 3 months" could be as modest as just (2 months + 1 day) = 61 days.

    61 does not round to 90. Just checking, I forgot to include a 6 day trip
    to friends Michigan woods cabin in the diary. Actually 93 days.



    Already planned 2 weeks in France next year, 2 weeks at Beaver creek
    and some time in Florida. More to come.

    So 2026's looking to be another cheap year, at least so far.


    Not a cheap year, we are doing a major kitchen/family room renovation
    next month. Florida dates are locked down. Once the reno is paid for we
    will have a better fix on other plans.


    Travel has to compete for time doing other things, after all.

    Unfortunately the case.  Disruptions from unexpected health issues are
    an increasingly common factor as one gets older, for example.  And some folk will be tempted to count days in the hospital as "vacation away" /s

    This statement is 100% correct.


    -hh

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