Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

New Bedford Buries Five Fishermen

New Bedford, Massachusetts, just twenty miles from my home, buried five of their own last week in the worst loss of a fishing vessel in nearly fifteen years: Five fishermen lost at sea when their boat capsized in a storm were remembered as heroes Sunday in a memorial service that also touched on the question [...]

2005 Mobile Technology Wishlist

At jkOnTheRun, James writes of his wishlist for Mobile Technology in 2005. My favorite wishlist item of his: Apple iTablet. I would love to see Apple come out with a Tablet PC based on OS X. My reasoning is somewhat devious- in addition to being curious what sort of Tablet Apple would release (and it [...]

Socialist Alliance: “The US is incapable of feeling remorse, sympathy…”

Over at the Tsunami Tragedy Blog, sponsored by the Socialist Alliance of Queensland, comes another wonderful and helpful post: Like any bully the United States takes pleasure out of destroying other people’s things. Like any true sociopath the US is incapable of feeling remorse, sympathy, or of learning from it’s mistakes. Like any true psychopath [...]