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You’ve heard about the Clinton-crying-in-New-Hampshire incident — now see the footage: Hat tip to PowerLine. UPDATE! The clip below is frankly more entertaining (in any sense) and better-acted than the one above — pretty sad (but not surprising) when Andrew Lloyd Weber gets upstaged by “some random chick on YouTube”: Hat tip to The Jawa […]
OK, this is the funniest original blog post I’ve read in weeks, if not months: I got to the bathroom and shut the door most of the way so Frank wouldn’t hear me crying, because if he heard me crying, how could I be angry with him later for not hearing me cry and coming […]
Monkeys surprisingly proficient at mental arithmetic: A college education doesn’t give you much of an edge over a monkey when it comes to doing some basic arithmetic, according to a study released Monday that underscores the surprising mental agility of our simian relatives. In a rapid fire test of mental addition, monkeys performed almost as […]
OK, this video is a delight: The group singing is actually “The Beatnix”, a Beatles ‘tribute’ group from Australia. Hat tip to Sixteen Small Stones. [UPDATED 01/28/08] We’ve had about 30,000 hits on this one entry since posting it in mid-December. If you feel so inclined, hit the tipjar over in the right column and […]
Looks like some New Jersey jailers never watched “The Shawshank Redemption” or read Stephen King’s original novella — but I’m willing to bet the inmates had: ELIZABETH, N.J. — Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said. Authorities searched […]
Got this link from Heather & Mike Harris (my daughter and son-in-law): Heh. ..bruce..
“Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists,” reports Helen Briggs of the BBC. From the ever-delightful and entertaining Jungle Trader. ..bruce..
My sweet wife Sandra is in Madison, Wisconsin, helping out our daughter Heather and her husband Michael with the birth (last Wednesday) of their third child, Ksenia [1] Rose Harris: Sandra called a little while ago to report the following overheard statement: No, you cannot sell my breast milk on eBay to buy a Playstation […]
Stephen Green (a fellow Coloradan) over at VodkaPundit has been putting together his own video questions for tonight’s GOP/YouTube debate. They’re being posted over at PajamasMedia. My favorite so far: Would love to have seen some of these actually used in the debate. ..bruce..
Here comes the bubble, redux
Some months back I raised a cautionary flag over what I considered to be the excessively high valuation of VMWare (“Uh oh…Tech Crash 2.0?”). I got caught in the original (though largely unacknowledged) tech crash in the 1988-1991 time frame and so was able to see (and avoid) what is largely (if incorrectly) termed the […]
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