What If They Made a Movie About Your Life?

Julia Child worked for a spy agency. She took a job with the OSS during World War II and served in its secretariat. She typed up documents, took notes, etc. For that she was required to remain silent. About 10 years ago the CIA finally released personnel files from the OSS days. The OSS was …

Holly Holm Takes Down Ronda Rousey in Historic Fight

I woke up this morning to the news that Holly Holm took down Ronda Rousey.  You can watch the stunning 2nd-round KO on MMA Wild: Holly Holm Knocks Out Ronda Rousey.  Ronda has taken the world by storm not only because of her top-rank fighting ability but also because she is very beautiful and a …

The Best Options Trading Advice You’ll Ever Get

Options trading strategies and advice is cheap to come by in the Internet era; discussions of beta numbers and changes in volatility are available from hundreds of options-specific advice blogs and strategy posts. Advanced trading strategy can be a wonderful thing, though it’s not often the kind of advice new traders need to hear. It …

W.S. by L.P. Hartley

"W.S." is a short story by L.P. Hartley that I read in an anthology entitled Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories. It's the first story in the the book after the preface, which was interesting reading all by itself. I'll comment more about the actual collection itself in a later post, when I've finished reading the …

The Castle Ravenloft Board Game

The Castle Ravenloft board game is a Dungeons & Dragons based board game. Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D) is an old-school roleplaying game. If you're not familiar with the concept, a roleplaying game is different from a board game. Players take the roles of individual characters in a fantasy setting, and the gamemaster (or "dungeonmaster," in D&D), sets the …

The American MENSA Guide to Casino Gambling: Winning Ways

Most books written about gambling are just this side of worthless. It makes sense that most of the free gambling strategy advice you find on the Internet is junk (although there are exceptions, like Casino Gambling Strategy, for example), but you'd think books published by major publishing houses and ostensibly reviewed by editors would be …