Global Wahrman

draft   I learned a new term the other day: white innocence.   It refers to those white people who are so dumb as to be constantly surprised...

First Uber, then Jaunt, two of my favorite words, now gone forever. Or at least as long as I live. It used to be that I could show s...

In three previous posts we discussed the practice and mythology of underbidding a project in visual effects, something that is alleged to...

Ukraine!   Ancient land of peace and harmony, how fondly we remember you!  There are whole chunks of the American population who are desce...

It would seem that the art of insulting people and character assassination has gone downhill in recent years with nowhere near the eleganc...

As everyone knows, the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.   Poor Eliza Doolittle had to repeat that phrase over and over again, unde...

As we stare into the darkness of the inevitable failure of our lives, what could be better than to waste a little time looking up things ...

[updated 7/27/2013] In a previous post  (see here) , we discussed issues that may become apparent when you hire a more experienced worke...

Most American's have realized by now that if they are on the outside of the vast wealth in this country, that the only way to change th...

[in progress, I just cant get this right] This is a post about a particular poem by Rudyard Kipling which is the origin of about 14 very ...

v 0.1 Beta  3/10/2013 [in progress] Tired of being told words over the phone that you can not spell correctly and have the person on...

I realize that one should not brag, but I believe that I am the best procrastinator that I have ever met or heard about by at least one ord...

The Thieves Cant (or language) is a work written sometime between 1690 and 1720 by one B.E. Gent in London. It purports to be a dictionar...

Dennis Muren said, the problem with special effects is that it is not special anymore. Although true, there are a few cases in which r...