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The Most Dangerous Machine In The World

June 16th, 2011 | 0 Comments | Home, Uncategorizable |

We’ve been trying to figure out what to do with some old furniture. At around the 4:00 mark I had an idea.

Nightmare in the Gulf

May 4th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Uncategorizable |

Talking Points Memo re-published these photos of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform while it was burning and sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. I had no idea.

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This last Sunday, SHU played host to a remarkable person, with a very remarkable mission. In 1941, after the Germans invaded Russia, they sent out special teams called Einsatzgruppen with the special mission to round up an kill civilian Jews. Unlike in Poland and Germany itself, there are no concentration camp sites, crematoria or gas [...]

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Video of Hudson River Plane Crash

January 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Uncategorizable |

The plane comes in from the left at around 2:00 in. In about 40 seconds people are already piling out onto the wings. Watch at the far right around 3:00, someone slips and falls in, and another passenger quickly moves out to help pull him/her back in. The first NY Waterway ferryboat is on the scene in less than four minutes.

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From Beyond The Grave

October 20th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Travelogues, Uncategorizable |

With Halloween just around the corner, here are some horrors that cousin Shari and I saw while exploring the cemeteries of Butler County, PA. These are not for the timid, so read on at your peril.

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Seven Years

September 11th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Uncategorizable |

Seven. Now there’s a number filled with symbolic meaning. God created the universe in seven days, there are seven deadly sins, seven virtues, seven sacraments. There’s the “seventh heaven,” as well as seven hells and seven days of the week. Seven seas and seven musical notes. Seven branches on a Menorah, and the book of [...]

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Remembrances of the 2003 Blackout

August 15th, 2008 | 8 Comments | Uncategorizable |

I didn’t really realize I was supposed to remember, until I read about it being remembered in the paper yesterday morning. So here’s what I remember.

Late afternoon, Midtown Manhattan, the lights and my computer go out. I look out my office door, all the lights and all the computers are out. So is my phone. So are the lights out on the street and in the offices across the way…

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Photographs of Hiroshima

May 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Uncategorizable |

Last week ten previously unseen photos of Hiroshima, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer immediately after the bombing, were released by the Hoover Archives. Most of the photos we’ve seen of the aftermath are either sanitized, showing a sterile landscape from which everything has been simply removed, like this one:

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Greetings From New Providence, NJ

April 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Strange Sites, Uncategorizable |

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Edmund Hillary

January 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Uncategorizable |

Edmund Hillary, dead at 88. He crossed over the last great frontier — at least the last great frontier here on Earth.

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And To Think, I Just Tossed Mine With The Rest Of The Junk Mail

December 8th, 2007 | 7 Comments | Uncategorizable |

Via Kottke an, um, analysis of the Lands’ End catalog. I wondered if the art director had this all in mind. I wondered if this guy needs to get out more. Today one of their catalogs landed in the mailbox again. But it (apparently) wasn’t this one.

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