Yessiree bob, we’re competent managers, alright. Why do you ask? Sure we did our recruiting to help run the Coalition Provisional Authority with blind e-mails sent to kids who’d posted their resum?s with the Heritage Foundation; you got a problem with that? For Ledeen, the offer seemed like fate. One of her family friends had …
It’s so hot this stuff has turned sluggish. Postscript: In the “There oughtta be a law” department, that link, taken from the picture at my home page, was broken. That’s right; the people at the Hawai’i Volcano Observatory changed their directory! Shouldn’t people be required to send out notices?
You may have seen a post somewhere about a survey being done by the provider/middleman for Blogads. The results are in, and they make for interesting reading. The genetic structure of dogs has been discovered, and there are some surprises and some huge potential benefits to the study of human disease. However, for a disease …
On May 12 union leaders, academics, and community activists met to discuss a strategy to rein in Wal-Mart’s growing influence on pay and benefit scales throughout the American economy. In response to news of this meeting, here’s what Wal-Mart had to say: Sarah Clark, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said the company knew little about the meeting. …
Is the Modern Era history? That 500-year period, marked by the age of exploration, the creation of nations and the Enlightenment that unleashed ideologies designed to empower the individual, faces its last great challenge in the 50 disparate countries that constitute the Islamic world — ruled by the last bloc of authoritarian monarchs, dictators and …
If you have a Macintosh running OSX, you have a problem. Deal with it right now. Today. Seriously. Summary and Remedy. I’m getting this from Making Light, who’s trustworthy. Go to her place and read the rest, including more links and discussion. This appears to be serious. Apparently it can invoke Apple’s Help program, which …
I just had a really odd experience. My mail program was open, and I started receiving a lot of mail, all directed to my blog comments folder. Anybody who reads this site knows I tend to average two comments per post if I’m lucky, so watching 98 (98!!) roll into that folder was disconcerting. I …
I just met Moosie at the airport, gave her and Mr. Moose a brief tour among the hills above Pearl Harbor, had lunch, and then found the Harley-Davidson shop so they could buy localized versions of H-D paraphernalia. They look well; Ali and Tom gave them a pleasant tour of the Big Island. They get …
Back in 1980 I got hired as Data Processing Manager for the Honolulu Club for the princely sum of $10,800 per annum. Suppose I wanted to know just how much that $11K is worth in today’s dollars? By going to Economic History Services and clicking the How Much Is That link I could go to …
Found in an otherwise ordinary article about a Christies auction of some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s papers: The papers are to be auctioned off Wednesday, perhaps to disappear again into the obscurity of private ownership, a fate that had obsessed Richard Lancelyn Green, a former chairman of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. Lancelyn …