I've occassionally thought who will be the first to go? Casey or Nigel? Although Casey doesn't really seem to have those IT skills he boasted once paid him a cool $30k (or was that $50k) long ago, I really think Nigel will be the first one to mysteriously disappear.
Casey is a small-time scammer who got spanked at the higher-stakes table. Back to Amway and bird-dogging future failures. He can probably eek out another half year living on a few hundred bucks a month the ads will bring him. His big win in life was selling a condo his parents helped him buy (right?). Whoa, a mogul in the making. Everything from that point on has been failure. So he'll draft up his pamphlet and maybe scrape in a another few hundred.
Now Nigel, who's always been a more interesting character to me, is in for a more rapid descent here. Timed entry into the housing bubble pretty well, probably made some nice money in a short amount of time. But Nigel wants more. Aspiring web journalist, wanna be entrepreneur, failed partner of Casey. Nigel does seem to think he's superior in most ways to most people. Regardless of how many people point out the flaws in his economic arguments, etc. etc. Nigel is unaffected. He's taking link-whoring and free blog-site entrepreneurship to the extreme.
The mortgage, and all of housing, business is undergoing changes that will be around for years. When the .com bubble burst, sure there were some people telling you to buy, buy, buy the NASDAQ at 3500, 3000, 2500... same with Nigel, keep pitching for that falling knife.
There are serious affordability issues in the housing market and the jobs that were created (like in the .com bubble) are going away. Soon that pressure and reality will catch up with Nigel and when it does, I predict he will finally push that delete key.
So what's the predictions? I'm asking my loyal viewer (that's right Akubi, i mean you). I think Nigel delete's himself sometime around August. Though what Mr. LeGate reveals has to be causing Nigel the tremors, so it coud happen much quicker, but i'll stick with August. Casey will keep trying for sweet media for much longer.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Death Pool
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These days following EN comments has become as challenging as Housing Panic so I rely upon people like you, Aspeth, Stephanie and Flailing Forward to make some sense out of it for me. Plus, I like being Murst!
Yeah, its tough... Mr. LeGate has made it interesting and it's very funny to see Nigel lock down DHC...
if you want the Casey Countdown, just grab it from the source code or um, point me towards your email and i can send it.
Prior to the influx of humorous Nigel satire, I thought he was just plain boring. He wouldn’t be anywhere without Casey. Now there does seem to be a significant amount of scheming going on.
Regarding the Nigel Deletion of Self query: Are we referring to associating his real name to yet another BS blog or just giving it up all together?
Oh, as far as email is concerned it is AkubiDoo_at_yahoo.com
As far as source code is concerned, I'm a lazy idiot and have never been very involved client-side scripting.
I'd say 9/07.
Niggle has painted himself into a corner. First he champions Casemeister, then when the bloom comes off the rose of their lovefest, he morphs into a semi_hatr(TM).
Now the poor confounded bastard has removed all comments from his DHC site. Some old chestnut about 'heat' and 'kitchen' springs to mind. I suspect he's now realizing that not all publicity is good (despite other careworn bon mots to the contrary).
I'd suspect a family member, colleague or close friend has got wind of his antics and taken him aside and questioned his sanity.
I think Nigey Poops will take a sabbatical from the Blogosphere sometime in the next 4-6 weeks.
Cheers, Mail Guru
I agree, Nigel picked the wrong horse in this race.
It's funny when you see how much effort Nigel put into building his much coveted "online reputation" over the past year. So many inane comments in so many places.
Once the aspiring web journalist paid the $200 or so to put out that press release the die was cast.
The mortgage guy and the mortgage fraudster, the new odd couple.
What qualifies as blog death? Complete deletion, or lack of posting? If it's the latter, DHC and RCS both died this week.
That graphic is gross. Accurate, but gross.
For Nigel, it's a 50/50 call. DHC is not going to be around much longer, maybe a month tops, but I think the SLC RE blog will stick around.
IAFF? 80% or better that it stays around indefinitiely. I think Casey will do his damnedest trying to keep it alive. I'd say, 'work hard' but he's allergic to that phrase :)
IAFF - or rather, the things he thinks IAFF gives/can give him - is the one thing Casey seems to really have strong feelings for. It would take jail time and/or a court order to keep him off it for too long.
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