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 […]
The first three-fourths of “I Am Legend” (starring Will Smith and Abbey the Wonder Dog) is haunting, effective, and heart-wrenching. I have traveled to New York City a lot over the years on business — in fact, I was there just this week — and the film does a great job of showing an abandoned, […]
Found this on Eschaton: As Atrios said, this ad is “weird and disturbing for so many reasons.” I plan to do some investigation to find out whether Experian (“freecreditreport.com”) does indeed allow you to see other people’s credit report. ..bruce..
A little over 10 years ago, I had the privilege of flying out to the USS Nimitz, which was underway off the California coast, and spending 24 hours on board. The commanding officer at the time was Captain (now Vice-Admiral, ret.) Alfred G. Harms, and I had the further privilege and honor of spending some […]
Got this link from Heather & Mike Harris (my daughter and son-in-law): Heh. ..bruce..
Of course, I now need to verify that I’m posting this on the new website instead of the old one…yes, everything seems to be working just fine. If you encounter any broken links or other strangeness, please drop me a line. ..bruce w..
Not only am I trying out a few more WordPress themes, I will also be moving this blog to its own independent web site (it currently runs as a subdirectory under brucefwebster.com). I’ve already done the same thing to my other blog, and so hopefully have made all my mistakes in that process. ..bruce w..
Besides this blog and my other one, I also have two websites that deal with my professional life: a personal one (brucefwebster.com) and one for my business (bfwa.com). For the first one, I had been using a website design tool that has since been abandoned by its manufacturer (or rather by the firm that bought […]
“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..
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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