Tony's Blog

The Christmas season’s Hallmark specials and other heart rending presentations serve to exacerbate feelings of frustration. This year’s Scrooge character is played by Hedge-fund manager venture capitalist Philip Falcone, Senior Managing Director of the Harbinger Capital Partners® Funds, and his outfit called LightSquared.

GOES Satellite Video of 2011 Hurricane Season Released A video released by NASA features the whole hurricane season of 2011. It is a mesmerizing video in which one observes several repeating patterns in the North Atlantic and in the Pacific west of Mexico and, of course, the train from north Africa to the Gulf of [...]

Veins in the Gulf (76 minutes, 2011) is a documentary, produced, directed, and edited by Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin, that traces the environmental crisis of southern Louisiana, the history of Cajun culture, and rapidly disappearing bayous. …

Did you know the English alphabet has had more than 26 letters?
Do you know the name of the symbol “&”? Most would call it “ampersand”.

In “Contracts – The Essential Business Desk Reference”, Nolo Press has published a high quality dictionary/encyclopædia of legal contract terms. A book like this will not make one a lawyer

I happened upon this commentary in art by Regina Holliday. The picture she paints is what the sooth had in mind when he opined, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Author Richard Arum, a professor of sociology at New York University, co-authored Academically Adrift along with Josipa Roska, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. There is a decline in critical thinking skills among students and part of the reason for could be a decrease in academic rigor.

Curtis M. Brown was a surveyor and the author of arguably the most cited books on surveying in the United States. Pallamary’s 671-page collection of Brown’s writings “The Curt Brown Chronicles” chronicles the history, science, equipment, ethics and complex law underlying the ownership of land.

As a loyal Louisiana native son, I am amazed at the number of things I take for granted as part and parcel of life and life’s environs that seem to be strange and unusual to so many not from here. It seems that enough curiosity is piqued to support producing shows for film and television that feature Louisiana culture, history and her people, very often including sets on location here.