Of Statues and Monuments
A focal point of the city of Richmond, Virginia is a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Lee, by all accounts a brave, intelligent man, betrayed the U.S.A. for […]
Bitcoin Pizza Day
It’s May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated by bitcoiners and friends everywhere. What’s this? Back in May 22, 2010, software engineer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins, marking […]
Buy Bitcoin
A few days ago my acquaintances Max and Jonathan asked me about possible stocks to buy. “Look at all the good deals,” they said. So many good deals. For […]
Laethanta na Riabhaiche – The Borrowed Days
During these first days of April snow falls outside making it easier to stay inside in the time of coronavirus. Another April some time ago, while perusing Richard MacFarlane’s Twitter […]
Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien
Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien who were married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and apparently became so smitten by her he began to […]
Morse Code Revisited: Communing With Titanic’s Distress Signal
by Carl Kruse Years ago I studied Morse Code as a prerequisite to becoming a Ham radio operator and while never becoming a Ham I learned Morse Code anyway and […]
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
by Carl Kruse Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” is one of 8-10 books that peer at me from my desk, and if inanimate books emit energy I feel that of the Meditations […]
Visit to Bavaria Filmstadt and Das Boot
Supposedly it’s difficult to make anti-war films because movies tend to make war look exciting. That’s probably true but not for Wolfang Petersen’s “DAS BOOT” (1981) one of the best […]