There’s been some controversy lately over the plans of a Massachusetts elementary school to ban tag. Elle Dee, over at this is by us, has started a thread named “Games We Played that were Much Worse than Tag“. Here was my own contribution:
Back in 1958-60, our family lived in the West Kalayaan US Naval housing [...]
As per request, some additional information on the housing market in the US. Rather than pull someone else’s good work today, we are going to delve into the output of an interesting and unique piece of software that called “Hardtack”. Hardtack is a system that “strip mines” a variety of MLS databases (real [...]
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The Busher Reactor Under Construction in Iran – 2004, Digitial Globe Quickbird 2
As some of you may have guessed, I try to stay current on world events dealing with ongoing and potential military conflicts, especially where they involve ongoing or potential proliferation of WMDs. Cruising by one of the Arms Control Blogs, I see [...]
I’ve reached that point in the election season where I largely keep the TV off, except to watch shows that I’ve already recorded on my DVR and thus can hit the ‘CM SKIP’ button to help skip over the endless political attack ads. This ad, however, is an absolute hoot, as if a few of [...]
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From the ever-worthwhile McSweeney’s, here’s an excerpt of the findings from the Committee on Promotion and Tenure:
Demonstrates suitable experience and expertise in chosen field:
The committee concurred that Dr. Jones does seem to possess a nearly superhuman breadth of linguistic knowledge and an uncanny familiarity with the history and material culture of the occult. However, [...]
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As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ve had some persistent problems logging into WordPress (the blogging software used here) from any computer other than one of my desktop computers in my home office. Apparently, this is a well-known problem. I worked my way through a few of the suggestions on that page w/out much success, but then [...]
…I’ve been having network problems downstairs (fixed now), and WordPress has some quirky bug that often prevents me from logging into the blog from my laptop (shortly put, it won’t let me get past the log-in screen when I try to do anything such as write a post, moderate comments, etc.). So, I’m back. ..bruce..
Ran across The Comics Curmudgeon site thanks to a link from Memepool. Josh Fruhlinger, who runs the site, does out loud (well, on the web) what many of us have been doing subvocally for years: mocks the lame comics that persist on newspaper comics pages everywhere. He pays particular attention to Mary Worth, Judge Parker, [...]
UPDATE (10/15/06): Henderson has posted some of his data and observations above.
“Evil” Bruce Henderson, my co-blogger, has developed a data mining tool that constantly surveys the web, building up data about housing prices and mortgages being issued. The results are troubling, to say the least; I’ll leave it to him to post the information should [...]
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What Were We Thinking?
As Webster has mentioned, some time early in 2006 I started tracking several pieces of the financial sector using a new tool I invented that we named “Boomerang”. Suffice to say it was originally conceived as a tool for intelligence fusion for things like the war on terror. Unable to find a vehicle [...]
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