David Carradine, dead at 72
I rediscovered the Kung Fu series only recently and completed the whole DVD set of season one a few days ago. I used the famous Grasshopper quote in my first post to this blog. In honour of Carradine,...
View ArticleThey still go in threes
Koko Taylor. Sam Butera. David Carradine. All gone in the last day. If you don’t know who these people are, here are some pointers. Koko Taylor: blues singer. These clips seem to be slow to load today....
View ArticleRemembering David Carradine
from: The Huffington Post Lawrence Bender: Remembering David Carradine. One of the most wonderful memories I have of David is from first day of training. We had created a training center where all the...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin: On Robert McNamara
A trillion dollars will likely have been spent on the Iraq war by the time it is truly “over.” And, like Vietnam, for nothing. A trillion dollars to execute Saddam. A trillion dollars to create a...
View ArticleUnited Breaks Guitars
This is too funny! A guy upset by what united airlines did to his expensive guitar produced a music video and posted it on youtube.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
View ArticleBeware of Odd Looking Blog Comment Spam
Blogger beware! Blog comments that don’t seem to offer a whole lot may be cleverly disguised pornographic spam. This happened to me recently. I accepted a trackback from another wordpress blog. It...
View ArticleThe United States Health Care Debate
A few days ago, on CNN, I heard a woman say “The United States has the best health care system in the world”. It does? Well, if it did, you would expect it would be easy to find statistics to back this...
View ArticleThe Rush to Release
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved Firefox. Maybe that’s why I’m so disappointed with the latest release. Part of the attraction of Firefox is that so much good software is written for it or as an...
View ArticleJohn McCarthy, AI pioneer, dies at 84
John McCarthy, AI pioneer, dies at 84 — Engadget. Like Dennis Ritchie, I missed this when it happened. McCarthy pioneered LISP, a language I profoundly hated when I studied it, but it’s influences on...
View ArticleDennis Ritchie obituary
Dennis Ritchie obituary | Technology | The Guardian. Ritchie was a huge influence on computers and computer science as I was entering the field. The Unix operating system, the language C, so much. It’s...
View ArticleCan we stop with the Firsts now, please?
First we had the term First Lady. And that was good. Sounds a bit elitist, I suppose, but the idea was respect for the position and unacknowledged time and energy. The First Lady is more or less an...
View ArticlePopular things – transit fraud and my name
It’s the beginning of the month, so I’m looking at my web stats for the various websites I have a hand in. The results are amazing … I write a blog on the metal stamping industry called Stamping Out A...
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