Today, Jan 30 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s assassination, and I thought I’d take a few moments to reflect on his life and death, and those of a few others whom I know he influenced, and… Continue Reading →
let’s get this straight: – benazir bhutto was shot. – subsequently a bomb goes off nearby, apparently killing the gunman. – an autopsy is not done, the coroner’s reports are confiscated by secret police, the coroner is ordered not to… Continue Reading →
sometimes I find break room behavior amusing. for example, in our break room, I think we have a pretty good group. most of the time when folks take the last cup from a pot, they take a few seconds to… Continue Reading →
Today is Thursday, November 1, 2007 Lizzie’s birthday, her seventeenth. And I want to start off by thanking God for her and for my whole family and everything. iverthang. Maybe this is an opportunity to enumerate all of Elizabeth’s particular… Continue Reading →
lately, it seems I like to make lists. a friend of mine once said, “think of someone you admire, and do what they did” first, you have to think of someone you admire. and why. for some of us that’s… Continue Reading →
it occurred to me to write down a few attributes that people can have that I like.
A 30-second time slot in a medium-sized market can be purchased for as little as $5 per 1,000 viewers Ok, that’s two cents per pair of eyeballs per 30-second spot. The standard half-hour of television contains 22 minutes of program… Continue Reading →
I’ve started counting the number of times that I read how all these bloggers out there are just self-indulgent and pointless at best or worse, narcissistic and positively harmful. You see it everywhere, sometimes even in somebody’s blog. At least… Continue Reading →
If a president can issue a signing statement effectively declaring that he is going to ignore certain portions of the bill he is signing into law, then why can’t I do likewise when clicking “I Agree” to a software license… Continue Reading →
life is like a knife. or maybe a surfboard, splitting the eternal wave of existence, the everpresent now, into pairs of opposites. all we see is the foam, but not the sea.
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