I’m in the middle of making a large batch of spaghetti sauce last week, and a commercial comes on for something called “Equity Repositioning.” The basic idea is to borrow against your house and invest the money in something else. Of course, that “something else” has to provide enough regular income to make the payment [...]
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Like I need to tell you that. I’m in Chicago for about 10 days for a patent trial (I’m an expert witness and will be testifying this coming week) and so am pretty tied up. But I’ll see if I can come up with something interesting soon. ..bruce..
It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! And here, courtesy of Language Log (one of my favorite blogs), is an handy instructional video:
Yo ho! ..bruce..
Avid readers of this blog will remember earlier this year the warning calls that went out about the impending new phase of our national and global finance. The part that surprised me was that it has taken this long to get this far. The stones are all lined up for the avalanche, but [...]
…since the last X Prize:
SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 13, 2007 – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded [...]
UPDATED: Here’s a comic to check out.
OK, this is the funniest idea I’ve run across since “Talk like a Pirate” day (which comes up just next week, by the way):
You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a [...]
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Gerard Vanderleun — who was just across the river from Manhattan, in Brooklyn Heights, when the WTC was hit — has posted his own memories of that day:
The Wind in the Heights
Notes made on September 11, 2001 — Brooklyn Heights
I’ll simply link to my posts from last year, as well as Bruce Henderson’s:
In Memoriam: Robert [...]
I just finished reading House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by SSG David Bellavia (with John R. Bruning). Bellavia took part in the US battle for Fallujah (Iraq) in November 2004; his squad was one of the first to enter the city, in which insurgents had spent months entrenching themselves and booby-trapping much [...]
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As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m a bit of a political junkie, and one of the great political spectacles is the national redistricting that occurs every 10 years — after the Federal Census — and sometimes more often than that.
So it has been fascinating to run across The ReDistricting Game, a browser-based Flash game that gives [...]
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First, some background via Wikipedia:
A Gary Smith-Dwight Hemion Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television, The Star Wars Holiday Special was produced with a budget of a little over a million dollars. At the time, it was considered one of the most expensive TV endeavors of its kind. Taping began in October and ended [...]
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