Randy Pausch died this weekend. I felt sad because I had the privilege of sitting down to read his book in Stanley Bay in Hong Kong only a short two and a half months ago. If there is one good thing about this that can be said-he has left a
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The Station Cat
We were gone down south today driving down well past the lake and the towns below it. Just got back a little while ago. And when I sat down and surfed I discovered that the Wakayama station master cat-Tama-chan-got a raise of sorts. From Japan Probe: The Wakayama Electric Railway
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Of George Bush? Matthew Yglsieas has a great find: There’s an excellent piece by Elisabeth Bumiller in The New York Times which makes the point that one area in which Bush and McCain now differ is foreign policy. Specifically, Bush has — without explicitly admitting any errors — moved away
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When I was a boy, my father was lead electrical engineer at the Alcoa Headquarters in Alcoa. That meant he was involved in everything related to bringing power from various places to the South, East and West ALCOA plants that were in the city of Alcoa. I’m told Alcoa has
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Step 1 of updating links is complete-I have gone through and house cleaned my links and deleted dead ones. Step two will be to add new ones. You will also notice I added a couple of widgets. Construction continues.
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Political commentary will resume this weekend. There is too much stupidity going on, on both sides of the aisle, that I just cannot let it pass. I also want to tell you my mother’s story-it deserves to be told-but that should wait until my thoughts on the matter can coalesce
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The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. –Psalm 34 Verse 18. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
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Greetings from a small town in rural North Carolina. Today, started with a conversation in the dark, ” Don’t you have anything to say to me?” Uh, oh. “Ummm. No. Unless you want me to say that I think you are being unreasonable, and I know full well that this
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I retract everything I wrote in the previous post. No fireworks happened when S.O. met offspring of yours truly. True you could cut the tension with a knife-but no rudeness ensued. Polite remarks all around. So why am I blogging when I have to drive 6 hours tomorrow to a
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Lots to talk about in the world these days-including the Obama Iraq tour 2008. However those things will have to wait for another time. I had some fun with the S.O. in my previous post. I’m banking that she does not read the blog-but since I passed all of the
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