Category Archives: Miscellaneous

This artsy, black-and-white, slow-motion ad for Samsonite’s new Cosmolite line of luggage has been in high rotation on BBC World lately: And every time I see it, I can’t help thinking of this artsy, black-and-white, slow-motion ad for Springfield’s second-most-successful … Continue reading →

As a followup to this previous post – a script that automates EBS snapshots on an Amazon EC2 server – here’s a bash script to prune the EC2 snapshots created by the other script. #!/bin/bashexport EC2_PRIVATE_KEY={path to your AWS private … Continue reading →

Really, Wikipedia? On May 5, 2010, [Wilson Phillips] performed to an audience of 350 people at the 79th General Meeting of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors in San Antonio, Texas.

The old “About JRE” page text: Your editor is an FX options trader, exiled in sunny Singapore. JRE is finance, politics, economics, and a little bit of travel photography on the side. The new “About JRE” page text:  Your editor … Continue reading →

Just in case you weren’t convinced that we’re living in the future: a newly launched mining company might be about to start exploiting a record-breaking untapped iron ore deposit… in spaaaace: Supported by an impressive investor and advisor group, including Google’s Larry … Continue reading →

Update: right, here’s a new version of the script that doesn’t spew when you run it as root. Update 2: made the path to /sbin/service explicit so that mysqld goes down properly.  As you may have noticed from the intermittent downtime, … Continue reading →

Well, yes, Melbourne Age, leveraging up 10:1 in a risky asset class will let you “retire by 40″ .. if prices go your way. If not, well… what’s this “retirement” thing you’re talking about? Is it like “bankruptcy”?

An astounding scientific discovery has been made in northern Italy, near the town of Maranello: the heretofore unknown red-and-white buck-toothed small-winged duck-billed platypus. The paper will appear in next month’s Nature.

I TOLD YOU I WAS KIM JONG ILL, blared KCNA right on the dot of midday Korea time, sending equities into a tailspin and USDKRW through the roof. The beloved star of comedies such as South Park, 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live … Continue reading →

Is it real? Have CERN researchers finally found the Higgs boson? You’ll find out… on next week’s show. CUT TO AUDIENCE GOING “AWWWW”. Also, you have to wonder whether Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist (and passable limericist) Sheldon Glashow likes being called “Shelly”.