Monthly Archives: August 2016

If you haven’t already done it, replace every incandescent, fluorescent and halogen bulb with one of these: @ profbruce @ quantum_entity

Here’s my new definition of “bank robbery”. A bank robbery occurs when your bank takes your money, and gives you a negative interest rate after taking into account all their fees @ profbruce @ quantum_entity

I think people just have way too much stuff. Every time I see someone coming out of a store loaded down with packages and useless devices/toys/gadgets… I just see another trip to the dump in the future for their heirs or assigns. One of my former students who lives in a tiny 375 sq ft […]

Here’s my description of the future of the summer Olympic games (excerpted from Jenna’s Story): The 2172 Summer Olympics (aka the Games of the LXX Olympiad) has just been held in Pyongyang. The winner of the 100-meter race is a freakish, drug-filled, DNA-adjusted, half man, half cheetah, half bionic cheater who ran the distance in […]

~The true tale of Jenna and the lumans~ By Bruce M Firestone, PhD “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on,“ Sheryl Sandberg  www.brucemfirestone.com Synopsis This is the true tale of Jenna McConnell, a research student in the University of South Carolina Upstate’s department of education, whom we […]

Toronto Land Values May Exceed New York’s I read a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek (June 27-July 3, 2016) that broke out land rent for Donald Trump’s building at 40 Wall street. They report, “Trump currently pays $1.65 million a year to the group that owns the land underneath the building, which includes heirs to a […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSx3QvChoZo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Home Theater Has Come a Long Way Home theater sure has come a long way. This was taken on my iphone 6 at Tektam studios in Orleans, Ottawa, August 16th 2016. 6’1" Chris Long from Conrad Construction is standing at right to give screen scale. @ profbruce (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Think grass is green? It only looks that way. You have to water it, feed it, cut it, weed it, add nutrients, fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.  Yuck. Need more parking spaces as well? Why not use pavers or better yet porous pavers? You can drive a firetruck on these things (if done properly) and, oh […]

Do you want to be more successful? Have a better business/organization? Attract more clients as well as better suppliers and employees? Then please watch this 18-minute TED talk by Simon Sinek, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 His main message is: PEOPLE DON’T BUY WHAT YOU DO, THEY BUY WHY YOU DO IT You want to attract clients/suppliers/employees who believe […]