Category Archives: Jack Handy

Watching “Mulholland Dr.” recently, I was reminded that Diane Selwyn/Betty Elms repeatedly says that she’s from “Deep River, Ontario”. This is usually chalked up as an allusion to the dream-nature of the film, or to Lynch’s fondness for the phrase. … Continue reading →

Charles Murray writes: I got my check from the New York Times for an op-ed that was published a few weeks ago. It was for $75. I’d say that the age of the professional pundit is basically over. (Via Jonah … Continue reading →

Are you familiar with the logic behind Google’s PageRank algorithm? I was thinking about it the other day, and it occurred to me that its operation is rather reminiscent of the income flows in a free market. I expand on … Continue reading →

“Lawrence of Arabia” is a pretty good movie, with a lot of great lines. For example, Feisal’s “[w]ith Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.” … Continue reading →

Via Jonah at The Corner: Check out this chart.

Alinsky (indirectly) quotes John L. Lewis, a C.I.O. labor organizer of the 1930s, as saying: [L]abor and capital may be partners in theory, but they are enemies in fact. There are a lot of destructive notions afoot in the world, … Continue reading →

I recently re-watched my “Extreme Edition” of Terminator 2. This is an interesting DVD, in that it’s more instructive than entertaining. The default presentation of the film includes all sorts of extra footage that pretty much ruins the movie, but … Continue reading →

East Side Boxing had an interesting article up the other day: a “retrospective fight report” on the first fight between Marvin Hagler and Vito Antuofermo. The best part of the article was that the author provided YouTube links to all … Continue reading →

Of the 3,468 Medals of Honor so far awarded, 1,522 (44%) were awarded during the Civil War. By way of comparison, only 464 (13%) were awarded during WWII.

I got some junk mail from Amazon the other day, in which they mentioned, in passing, that “Amazon S3 standard storage is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability”. My immediate, and somewhat contradictory, reactions were: No way! What does that even … Continue reading →