• Re: OT: to Hugh H

    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

    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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!!!!!
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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?
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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!
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • 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

    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2