Monthly Archives: December 2003

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson was fined $10,000 by the NFL on Tuesday for holding up a sign directed at the league while celebrating a touchdown catch. After his 10-yard touchdown reception on the Bengals’ first possession of Sunday’s 41-38 … Continue reading →

Although my many Korean students unanimously disagree, in a typical fit of Know-it-all-ism the Dowbrigade firmly believes that North and South Korea will be united, a la Germany, before the end of the decade. Part of the reason we believe … Continue reading →

Seventeen people were injured Monday night when a Municipal Railway bus swerved off Mission Street and crashed into an adult video store, police said. One of the injured, a 60-year-old man, was in critical condition with head injuries. The accident … Continue reading →

VS. After decades in the political wasteland, Giants once again stride over the American political scene.  The nascent century has finally produced a Presidential confrontation worthy of George Washington vs. John Adams (1789), Thomas Jefferson vs. Aaron Burr (1800), FDR … Continue reading →

We have been a happy household at the Dowbrigade lately, the lovely Norma Yvonne has finally been granted a Green Card. Its seems that at last, after six years of marriage, five-and-a-half years after our initial Green Card interview, after … Continue reading →

Always looking for new ways to organize and retrieve information, Google has forced me to rewrite "10 Things I Bet You Never Knew about Google". I guess I’ll wait for one more good one and upgrade to "A Dozen Things…." … Continue reading →

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent $160 million in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were "bored," authorities said Friday. The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, … Continue reading →

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent $160 million in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were "bored," authorities said Friday. The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, … Continue reading →

How come every time the crypto-fascists take a major step forward in their ongoing crusade to control every aspect of American life, they test it out on the kids first? How about obligatory, universal drug testing?  That;s what they’re up … Continue reading →

Is face recognition software ready for prime time?  It seems to work much better in controlled situations, like airports, where the subject can be made to sit still and smile at the camera, and not so well when surveiling large … Continue reading →

Still sitting in stunned exhaustion after the end of the semester Friday. The snow outside has turned to a cold hard rain pelting the storm windows like icy BBs. The cat is in my lap, trying to figure out why … Continue reading →