Saturday, November 27, 2010

Monday, October 11, 2010

October, 2010

This October is very unique. It has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays all in 1 month. This happens once in 823 years.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009

Some very cool bicycling right here...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist



This story is extremely awesome.

Here is a preview:

In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can't explain exactly how it was done.

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (a capella)



And another version - this time with full instrumental.

Friday, October 03, 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, gives five positives that have come out of the current financial crisis. An excerpt:

Our willingness to believe that we can hire some expert to tell us how to outperform markets is a big problem, with big consequences. It underpins Wall Street's brokerage operations, for instance, and leads to a lot more people giving out financial advice than should be giving out financial advice.

Thanks to the current panic many Americans have learned that the experts who advise them what to do with their savings are, at best, fools. Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley, and all the rest persuaded their most valuable customers to buy auction-rate bonds, telling them the securities were as good as cash.

Those customers will now think twice before they listen to their brokers ever again.

Many, I'm sure, are just waiting to get their money back from their brokers before they race for the exits and introduce themselves to Charles Schwab.

Here is the full article.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Doing the Bull Dance

Just like Happy Gilmore - this guy has to be my favorite golfer.

Friday, September 12, 2008

"I believe in Sewanee with all my heart. I do not know of any institution of its size in any part of our country which has done more for the cause of good citizenship than Sewanee has done. As an American I am proud of it; as a citizen I am grateful to it. It is entitled The University of the South, but it is much more than that; it is a University of all America, and its welfare should be dear to all Americans who are patriotic and farsighted, and therefore anxious to see every influence strengthened which tends for the betterment and enlightenment of our great common country."

— President Theodore Roosevelt, June 4, 1907

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Russia/Georgia Conflict Debunks McDonald's Theory of War

Excerpt below from the article here at The Guardian.

The logic is thus: countries with middle classes large enough to sustain a McDonald's have reached a level of prosperity and global integration that makes warmongering risky and unpalatable to its people.

The Russia-Georgia conflict has finally blown this theory out of the water.

Thomas Friedman, who invented the theory in 1996, said people in McDonald's countries "don't like to fight wars. They like to wait in line for burgers."

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Don LaFontaine 1940 - 2008



Read more about him here.

Sunday, August 31, 2008