Amazing. This is interesting for anybody, but especially for anyone with a little bit of a mechanical or technical leaning.
Category: Fun Stuff
How the Financial Markets Really Work
This comedy skit was broadcast on The South Bank Show on October 14, 2007. It is uncanny how brilliantly and accurately it predicted the subprime financial meltdown, right down to the details of using the threat of devalued pension funds…
Video of Massive Fireball in Midwest
Youtube video of a atmospheric Fireball. Speculation is that it was a meteor. Pretty interesting. Read the CNN article HERE.
All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know (and a lot more than you NEED to know) About the Turbo Encabulator
This one is especially for one of my old GA Tech friends, Anna Saadatjoo. If a GA Tech engineer working for GM in Michigan can’t appreciate this…nobody can! Bobby Jones sent me an email with a link to the “turbo…
Understanding Derivatives
From and email that was circulated widely. It is very good: Understanding Derivatives An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics…
Mafia Godfather’s Deaf Bookkeeper
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would…
1906 Video of Market Street in San Francisco, Set to the Music of “Air”
Neat video of San Francisco’s Market Street before the 1906 earthquake. The video was shot from the front of a cable car, and is set to some pretty cool music by Air’s “Moon Safari” Alblum. The video has been slowed…
The Tax Poem
This has circulated in emails a couple of times. Lois forwarded it to me this last time: Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table At which he’s fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes Are…
Buy, Buy American Pie
89 Year-Old Woman Drives a 43 Year-Old Car…
I like this woman! If you support Sustainable Living, you gotta like what old gal has done…. Drive the same car for 43 years and there sure isn’t much waste.