by Leif Jensen | Oct 1, 2025 | Rant |
Excluding counting on the fingers, counting boards are the earliest known counting device, and a precursor of the abacus. Dust boards were used as counting tools: Dust boards, which were essentially tablets covered with a thin layer of dust or sand, served a similar...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 22, 2025 | Rant |
While in college a thousand years ago, I had a professor, who stated that if you could successfully get product distribution setup in Chicago, you could get your product distributed nationwide. I am uncertain if he was correct all those years ago, yet I was willing to...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 17, 2025 | Rant |
According to verbal reports given to me by my children Private Equity is removing single family homes, condo and apartment building from the purchase market to create a new class of forever renters. Apparently, they follow the teaching of Lex Luthor’s father in...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 8, 2025 | Rant |
As a student of history I think of what it must have been like to see the effects of the Industrial Revolution, the onset of the railroads, cars, airplanes. I have seen the information revolution up front, from calculators, to PC, to laptops, to cell phones, to smart...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 3, 2025 | Rant |
Car insurance premiums have been notably increasing. This trend is supported by data: Lexis-Nexis Risk Solutions’ annual report found average insurance costs rose 10% in 2024, following a 15% surge in 2023. Bankrate reports that full-coverage policies now...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 1, 2025 | Rant |
Have you been hearing all of the yelling is about money? According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it may be because the total cost to own and operate an automobile averaged a frightening $12,296 in 2024, roughly 30% higher than a decade ago. Driving has almost...
