Author Archive: Bruce Henderson

Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.

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Japan – Virtual World Divorce Leads To Virtual Murder

Japan – Virtual World Divorce Leads To Virtual Murder

| October 23, 2008 | Reply

If anyone doubted the increasing influence of multiplayer online role playing games, look no further. It seems that in the online world “Maple Story” It seems that this far east focused role playing game is like your average world, and one couple decided to have their online characters marry. Where the story gets unusual is […]

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Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

| October 23, 2008 | Reply

Again from the wise mind of Anna Schwartz courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: It takes real guts to let a large, powerful institution go down. But the alternative — the current credit freeze — is worse

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Repent Sinner!

Repent Sinner!

| October 22, 2008 | 1 Reply

A photo of me at the 2006 OSG Christmas Party in a kilt I have my good friend Sean Church to thank for this nugget of internet insanity. It seems that according to someone with the surname of “Stewart” has declared that wearing a kilt is a sin, and proceeds to cite biblical reference to […]

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Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

| October 22, 2008 | Reply

From the UPI, looks like there was some form of stimulus from the government checks this summer: …the online porn industry reported 20-30% growth in membership rates this summer following the initial round of government stimulus checks in mid-May. That’s normally the slowest time of the year for online porn, AIMRCo said. Proprietors of adult […]

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Rules For Living Thrifty – Cheap Books

Rules For Living Thrifty – Cheap Books

| October 21, 2008 | Reply

If you are like me (and Webster) you can tear through books at a blistering pace, especially if you find yourself jammed into an airplane seat for 5 hours or so flying off to a client site. Once upon a time I could easily spend $300.00 a month or more at Amazon feeding my reading […]

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My Next Career…

My Next Career…

| October 21, 2008 | Reply

Next year, when my job evaporates due to the credit crunch, this is how I will spend my days. Hey look, I would win that swell bike! Courtesy of Flicker via Iowa Hawk

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Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

| October 21, 2008 | Reply

This could be the anthem for why the bailout is evil: Everything works much better when wrong decisions are punished and good decisions make you rich.

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Rules For Living Thrifty – Spend Less Than You Make

Rules For Living Thrifty – Spend Less Than You Make

| October 20, 2008 | Reply

It’s time to embrace being thrifty, and no that does not mean you have to enjoy life any less robustly than you do today, but you may find at the end of the process that your notion of enjoying life may make a drastic change for the better. You can find it a self-renforcing cycle, […]

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Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity

| October 20, 2008 | Reply

Courtesy of Naked Capitalism, these words of wisdom from Steve Waldman: … for the most part, what is called financail innovation is finding new technology that makes legal what was illegal under the old technology

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Election 2008 – You Are Right To Mistrust The Polls

Election 2008 – You Are Right To Mistrust The Polls

| October 19, 2008 | Reply

One of the most annoying and anti-climatic parts of this rather sad and miserable election cycle has been the faux-drama of the polls. In absence of any real reporting on the details of either candidate’s plans, background or personality, the media focuses more and more on the virtual horse race conducted via the polls. Websites […]

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