Monthly Archives: September 2010

Owner of British division of Segway scooters drives off cliff and drowns.

Asked $6.495 back in 2008, down today to $4.5. Assessment, $2.377 39 Clapboard Once asked $6.5, yours today for $5.1 million. Assessment, $3.426.

  Assessed at $999,600, listed at $895, went to contract right away and sold at full asking price. I did not see the house – there was no open house – but I like the street.  This one on Sheephill was … Continue reading →

My brother John is visiting us here in Riverside and reports that at 6:30 this morning a large coyote appeared on our seawall. He eventually crossed the creek and disappeared in the sea grass, so I guess he’s Old Greenwich’s … Continue reading →

No, of course not, but this is discouraging: Democrats coming back in the polls.

2: 45. Listening on the radio, but these guys sure seem like losers to me. Losing to the friggin’ Titans, for heaven’s sake.

Mixed reviews on Oliver Stone’s revisiting Wall Street, ten years on. In my opinion, based on my own career chasing Wall Street crooks, the 2000 film Boiler Room captured the true essence of the Street, even though it depicts a thinly … Continue reading →

27% of self-identified gays and lesbians voted for McCain in 2008. I have a brother who is gay and he and his partner are political “conservatives” – not social conservatives, but, as am I, good old economic free marketers. They … Continue reading →

Seven years to prepare, corruption and incompetence have made a shambles of the project. Filth, shoddy construction, collapsing beds, buildings and bridges: what a mess. And just wait a week until the Games open because that’s when the terrorism begins. … Continue reading →

Unilever studying Stone Age diet in search for new products.

7 -3 , Bosox Yankees tonight. 10- 8, Bosox, yesterday. Can you say, “2004″?

Every twenty years or so the fashion industry discovers outdoor wear and dresses up poofter models in the stuff. The mandala has turned again, and the boys are back. Those of us who actually, in the Wall Street Journal’s words, lobster, … Continue reading →

Following up on Thursday’s post, there’s this: 30,000 Iranian computers infected. Stuxnet, which was first publicly identified several months ago, is aimed solely at industrial equipment made by Siemens that controls oil pipelines, electric utilities, nuclear facilities and other large … Continue reading →

InstaPundit: SCIENCE: Study: Men Don’t Notice Women’s Shoes Or Handbags. Of course not — those are for impressing other women. I don’t believe I’ve noticed a woman’s shoes or handbag ever – not once.

One hundred thousand will lose their jobs next week when Stimulus funds expire. Of course I feel for these folks, but how long can we subsidize non-jobs?

Mammograms not as effective as thought.

Connecticut taxpayers pay far more to the federal government that the state gets back, so news that we have received a federal grant of $2 million for beetle control and forest fire prevention doesn’t stir my bones. If we kept … Continue reading →

Fearful of being tasered by cops, man doused himself with paint. It didn’t work – they zapped him twice anyway, and down he went.

Canadian engineering student creates man-powered airplane.

But it’s fun to try. NYT: scores of Taliban killed in two separate strikes.