Archive for September, 2008
The Great Train Robbery
Saturday, September 27th, 2008I recently read The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. This books is a witty and somewhat accurate account of The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in which £12,000 worth of gold bars were stolen from a moving train. The book details the motivation, planning, and difficulties of the robbery as well as the eventual […]
Somebody set up us the bomb
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008When I was house shopping in 2006, I was offered several loans that I could not afford. I had a simple answer to these offers: No.
On Friday congress will be voting to spend $700,000,000,000.00 dollars it doesn’t have (don’t forget the deficit) on a bailout for dishonest jerks and the idiots who couldn’t say […]
Family Tree
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Recently I signed up for Geni, a family tree building website, after reading an article about it on TechCrunch.
Coincidentally, TED released a video at around the same time, which I just caught today:
This talk is by one of my favorite scientists, Spencer Wells, who wrote The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, which is also […]
Wedding Photos
Sunday, September 7th, 2008By popular demand…