What’s Mine is Yours…
By Brian | August 5, 2008
They say you learn something new everyday. Over the weekend, I spent some time with a gentleman who had completed U.S. Army basic training.
We were discussing ways to communicate clearly, and he pointed out to our group that a Claymore mine, an anti-personnel mine commonly used by the U.S. Army, has directions for use printed right on the mine itself. As you can see in the picture, the mine says “Front Toward Enemy” on one side. Better safe than sorry, I guess.
Also, it makes me feel better about the whole toothpick thing.
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Stumbling Upon StumbleUpon.com
By Brian | July 31, 2008
There’s a site out there called StumbleUpon.com.
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Measuring Earthquakes – Web 2.0 Style!
By Brian | July 30, 2008
Los Angeles had a 5.4 magnitude earthquake yesterday.
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House Update: New Video!
By Brian | July 30, 2008
Exciting news:
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iPhone – the $200 Flashlight
By Brian | July 30, 2008
How’s this for a lede in a Forbes article:
The geeks are at the gates, and they’ve brought their virtual light sabers. When it comes to nerdery, the legions who camped outside Apple’s stores last month to buy the iPhone have nothing on the developers Apple let loose to write software for it. At least three applications turn the $199 iPhone 3g into a flashlight. Another, World 9, lets out a vintage Nintendo bleep every time you bump the phone. In less than 15 minutes you can load up the iPhone with enough junk to make esthete Steve Jobs lose his vegan lunch of brown rice and broccoli.
The article goes on to describe several other App Store choices.
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Science vs. Religion
By Brian | July 29, 2008
Two news articles in the past week:
Columnist Robert Novak has Brain Tumor
and
[Columnist Robert] Novak Cited for Hitting Pedestrian
Responses:
Science:
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ISBS Review: South Pacific on Broadway
By Brian | July 27, 2008
As an anniversary gift, my in-laws bought us tickets to see the latest revival of South Pacific, currently playing at the Lincoln Square Theater in New York.
For those who don’t know (I didn’t until tonight), South Pacific was written in 1949 by the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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When is a Recession not a Recession?
By Brian | July 24, 2008
This from last week’s Wall Street Journal:
Federal Reserve officials marked up their outlook for inflation and economic growth in their latest projections. But their estimates suggest little expectation that underlying inflation trends will deteriorate significantly through 2010.
At the June policy meeting, officials projected that the rate of economic growth by the end of the year would be between 1% and 1.6%, up from 0.3% to 1.2% in their April estimates. The 2009 outlook was unchanged, with officials expecting growth between 2% and 2.8%.
Fed officials marked up their inflation projections for this year, measured by the price index for personal consumption expenditures, to between 3.8% and 4.2%, up from the 3.1% to 3.4% seen in April. The outlook for inflation next year was 2% to 2.3%, up only slightly from the 1.9% to 2.3% from the April meeting.
Expectations for the unemployment rate, now 5.5%, was unchanged at 5.5% to 5.7%.
Translation:
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Fighting for Victory in Iraq
By Brian | July 24, 2008
They told me that when the election came around, the central issue would be achieving victory in Iraq . . . and they were right!
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Another step toward iPod gold…
By Brian | July 21, 2008
I’ve been saying for many years now that the killer app on the iPod has not yet been written.
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