Where's Parker?
To put things in context, here's the search results of Parker's Posts on the main page only of The Parker Pages for August last year:
Re: insurance for dd (views: 121)
Parker -- Monday, 29 August 2005, at 9:13 a.m.
Re: insurance for dd (views: 645)
Parker -- Sunday, 28 August 2005, at 7:59 p.m.
Re: insurance for dd (views: 202)
Parker -- Sunday, 28 August 2005, at 2:51 p.m.
Re: apples and oranges (views: 135)
Parker -- Sunday, 28 August 2005, at 12:20 p.m.
Re: Over/Under (views: 229)
Parker -- Tuesday, 23 August 2005, at 9:41 p.m.
Re: Surrender (views: 118)
Parker -- Monday, 22 August 2005, at 6:17 p.m.
Re: Sim (views: 222)
Parker -- Monday, 22 August 2005, at 5:55 p.m.
Re: tangential cheating question (views: 100)
Parker -- Monday, 22 August 2005, at 5:51 p.m.
Re: Never happen. (views: 117)
Parker -- Monday, 22 August 2005, at 5:43 p.m.
Surrender (views: 178)
Parker -- Sunday, 21 August 2005, at 3:28 p.m.
Oops. (views: 176)
Parker -- Sunday, 21 August 2005, at 12:50 p.m.
Rules, comments (views: 230)
Parker -- Sunday, 21 August 2005, at 9:58 a.m.
Return policies (views: 119)
Parker -- Saturday, 20 August 2005, at 10:55 a.m.
Good analogy (views: 111)
Parker -- Saturday, 20 August 2005, at 10:44 a.m.
Losses (views: 246)
Parker -- Monday, 15 August 2005, at 7:24 p.m.
Re: thinking about UBZII (views: 157)
Parker -- Saturday, 13 August 2005, at 1:23 p.m.
Re: Car Rental Discount (views: 134)
Parker -- Friday, 12 August 2005, at 4:40 p.m.
Interesting and thought-provoking (views: 160)
Parker -- Thursday, 11 August 2005, at 10:46 a.m.
Not new at all (views: 239)
Parker -- Tuesday, 9 August 2005, at 8:00 p.m.
Here's his posts on the main page only from September of last year:
Internet scams (views: 167)
Parker -- Thursday, 29 September 2005, at 10:06 a.m.
A little different (views: 79)
Parker -- Monday, 26 September 2005, at 9:05 a.m.
Re: UBZ2 indices (views: 66)
Parker -- Friday, 23 September 2005, at 9:01 p.m.
Major (views: 127)
Parker -- Wednesday, 21 September 2005, at 3:02 p.m.
Re: PBA (views: 107)
Parker -- Wednesday, 21 September 2005, at 2:52 p.m.
Re: Wow! (views: 644)
Parker -- Wednesday, 21 September 2005, at 9:16 a.m.
Doesn't matter (views: 139)
Parker -- Wednesday, 21 September 2005, at 9:05 a.m.
Re: Disagreement is OK (views: 165)
Parker -- Wednesday, 21 September 2005, at 8:44 a.m.
Re: generic investment question (views: 192)
Parker -- Tuesday, 20 September 2005, at 6:20 p.m.
Also disagree (views: 211)
Parker -- Tuesday, 20 September 2005, at 5:53 p.m.
Re: A little bit more .. (views: 101)
Parker -- Tuesday, 20 September 2005, at 5:36 p.m.
Re: Splitting and doubling (views: 159)
Parker -- Tuesday, 20 September 2005, at 8:34 a.m.
UBZ2 indices (views: 105)
Parker -- Saturday, 17 September 2005, at 10:57 a.m.
CVData (views: 209)
Parker -- Saturday, 17 September 2005, at 9:45 a.m.
Re: No need for Excel (views: 108)
Parker -- Wednesday, 14 September 2005, at 6:00 p.m.
Re: Gone for two weeks (views: 174)
Parker -- Tuesday, 13 September 2005, at 7:29 p.m.
Yes, all the time. :-) (views: 260)
Parker -- Tuesday, 13 September 2005, at 9:04 a.m.
Not surprising (views: 467)
Parker -- Monday, 12 September 2005, at 9:54 p.m.
Short answer: Yes (views: 186)
Parker -- Sunday, 11 September 2005, at 12:10 p.m.
Re: Okay, but can you... (views: 164)
Parker -- Friday, 9 September 2005, at 9:42 a.m.
Scary: You're reading my mind! (views: 631)
Parker -- Friday, 9 September 2005, at 9:33 a.m.
Thanks, good idea (views: 138)
Parker -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 9:56 p.m.
Two separate technologies (views: 184)
Parker -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 9:53 p.m.
Um . . . (views: 195)
Parker -- Tuesday, 6 September 2005, at 5:23 p.m.
Re: advantage gain? (views: 166)
Parker -- Monday, 5 September 2005, at 4:03 p.m.
These quantities of posts are not abnormal for Parker. He had more posts on the other Parker Pages. He has on occasion, posted more than 50 posts in a month on more than one page.
Last April, Parker's posting started declining. Parker only made 20 posts over all of the Parker Pages that month, which was a new record low for him. Remember, many of Parker�s posts are only no text subject titles, and usually very short when they do contain text.
He made only 13 posts in May.
He made only 8 posts in June.
He made only 2 posts in July.
He has made 0 posts in August.
Is Parker okay? I don't know. I sincerely hope so. He is a good guy. Has anything been said about his absence on the restricted pages?
Did he quit? I know that when I did, Viktor ignored my demands to remove my handle from his home page. I had to publicly demand him to remove my handle.
Bettie has obviously been trying to keep her fingers in all of the dikes. She is by far now the most prolific poster on the Parker Pages.
What about trackjack? Is Parker still the "editor"? If not, what's going to happen? Is Sam Kumar going to miraculously re-almost-appear?
Parker has not made a single post in 6 weeks and as noted above, his posting has been scarce for months.
What is going on?
It's a fair question.