Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
It seems someone else noticed the resemblance between John McCain and Battlestar Galactica’s Colonel Tigh. It was a nagging worry, but then he selected Gov Palin to be his running mate. Well, she does have at least a passing resemblance to president Roslin from Galactica too. So what is going on here? Now I get […]
Word from SFGate that during Wednesday night’s speech by Vice Presidential nominee (Gov) Sarah Palin, several members of Code Pink, the fringe / loon troupe that likes to protest Marines, attempted to storm the stage. From SFGate: On Wednesday, CodePink did it again, as co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans hit the floor of the […]
Get your snowboards waxed… the next ice age may be here soon! I have been talking about how quiet sunspot cycle 24 has been, and how it’s possible that may foretell a cooler period in the Earth’s climate for the next set of years. I have also pointed out that I am a computer engineer, […]
The media is full of accounts of the death of one time press secretary and former Fox News presenter Tony Snow. Snow died Saturday, July 12th at 2 AM from the cancer he had been fighting for the last several years. Readers of this blog know how critical I have been of the candidates in […]
In case you did not happen to be within 3 miles of an Apple fan today, Friday July 11th was THE day, the holy day when Jobs the Magnificent would allow the faithful to purchase some really nice hardware, namely the second generation / 3G iPhone. But, boys and girls, this is instead a lesson […]
Our sun, the largest single input of energy to our world, continues its quiet period. For the past 16 days there has not been any sunspots on the face of our local star. If you discount the small spots visible only because of our modern powerful tools, the blank period is much longer than that. […]
World media outlets on the web, print and broadcast are all discussing the war games in Iran during the US night time today. The headline event of these exercises by the Revolutionary Guard was the test launch of an Iranian medium range missile, the Shahab 3. Excellent diagram courtesy of GlobalSecurity.org The Shahab 3 has […]
This spring has seen an unusual spike in the ambient nonsense about global warming, particularly with regards to the breathless prediction by some so called scientist that an area called the Northwest Passage may be ice free by September. From the UK’s Independent: It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice […]
Everyone is free to make fun of Southern California and the strange people who live here. After seeing this, I have no rebuttal. Hat tip to Hot Air.
Why McCain Still Gives Me The Creeps
First off, I need to confess. I was as thrilled as Webster was when I found out last week that “Moose Blaster” Palin was named the VP pick. I have no clue why that happened, but I am very glad it did happen. Up until this point I was not going to cast any vote […]
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