FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising New York – July 4, 2009 – Word leader in being a new company engaged in ways of bringing advertising to […]
Never too old to learn
I’m at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to spend time […]
Derek Jeter’s Tailor in trouble with the law
The story is confusing, but Derek Jeter’s tailor is having legal difficulties. Either Ramchandani, who is the tailor, or one of his ex-pupils is having immigration troubles. Judging by the picture, I […]
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had the bad […]
Shocking Shockley
This week’s Science (29 May edition) has an unintentionally hilarious short piece. Seems Auburn, California wanted to name a park after local-boy-done-good William Shockley, the guy who invented the transistor. The park […]
Words I hate: Part I
What follows is only the beginning of a collection of words and phrases that I loathe. When I hear them or see them in print, I am tempted to apoplexy. issue “What […]
Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free
The Problem This relevant scene appears in an uncountable number of movies. What happens when you plunge head first through a glass window? Anybody? That’s right. You die. It’s you that starts […]
Links
My western sojourn is complete. The thing that impressed me most about Livermore, and its neighbor Pleasanton, CA, is that both towns’ main streets have shops with life-sized fiberglass horses out front. […]
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