Joseph, in The Corpus Collosum, is waving the banner in support of the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act, which would prohibit the President from appointing unqualified individuals to critical public safety positions in the government. Cronyism certainly is not new. I’ll bet that the second caveman to make fire was the brother of the guy […]
SoN OF SPAM
[Ed: Just to be clear, I did not write this. I received it in an email message without attribution to the original author. Snopes.com says that it has been around since early 2004. Be careful. If you enjoy it as much as I did, you are likely to laugh to hard that you will fall […]
Miss Thailand didn’t expect to have to live there
Be careful what you ask for: MacKay [winner of the Miss Thailand crown] said she had been persuaded to enter by relatives in Thailand when she came for a visit and hadn’t realized that the title required her to stay in the country for the coming year. Reuters.com has the full story.
Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies
Simon Wiesenthal (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) Simon Wiesenthal, holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals, passed away in his sleep this morning. He was 96. May his life be remembered as a blessing. Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience […]
Vacation 2005
Last month, Candy, Kevin, David and I took our trailer and headed north for two weeks blissful escape from the St. Louis heat and humidity. Your’s truly set a schedule that assured we arrived home exhausted and needing a vacation to recuperate from our vacation. We briefly stopped in Dubuque, La Crosse and Sault Ste. […]
“First” Flight with My Sons
I rented 6343D again yesterday and took my sons up for the “first” time. I say “first” because neither one of them remembers being up with me before, not surprising since Kevin was three and David one at the time. David was pretty cute on that last flight. I strapped his car seat into the […]
Nuclear Weapons in the Schoolyard
I was concerned to read, “The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy […]
Flying Again III
I soloed again this evening! I just had to celebrate getting my medical this afternoon by heading to the airport after work. It wasn’t quite as good as my first solo but it was still way beyond wonderful. 🙂 I only took N6343D (a C-172) for 0.7 hours, did a couple of touch ‘n’ goes […]
Bush Takes Responsibility
I am not a Bush fan but I do want to acknowledge his courage and leadership in these statements, made today: President Bush said Tuesday, “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.” Full details from AP here. Now that you have accepted responsiblity, Mr. Bush, what will […]
Flying Again II
Last week, I went flying for the first time in 13 years. Today I went back up for an hour of touch ‘n’ goes with a nice crosswind. The first few were a little “off” but, by the end, I was feeling much better about my performance. The plane was on the centerline, pointed down […]
Weekend o’ Death
This must have been a weekend o’ death, with my laptop dying and Joseph’s venerable “big screen” monitor passing on to the next world. It turns out we both suffer from / relish the symptoms of “dual monitor syndrome.” It sounds like he has a pair of LCD screens while I use the LCD in […]
Replacing My Desktop Computer
Time for another big technology leap. I am switching from a desktop to a laptop as my full time machine. Until Saturday morning, I had had a desktop machine and a laptop. The laptop died a horrible and inconvenient death, though. (Now all it says when I boot is, “Trap 00000006 Exception.”) Rather than buy […]
U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead
Update 9/11/05: Persuaded by a CNN law suit, the feds have backed down. Feds Drop Media Ban on Katrina Recovery Following is the remainder of my original story:
Flying Again!
Yee Hah! I flew a plane today for the first time in almost 13 years! 🙂 Skyhawk N6343D from St. Charles Flying Service at St. Charles Municipal Airport (3SQ). Coming back after this long was almost as good as my first solo. It seemed an auspicious day to run across an article about Glacier Girl, […]
A Can’t-Do Government
Paul Krugman of The New York Times writes what I have been wondering, but much more eloquently, in A Can’t-Do Government Here is a little sample: Yesterday [Thursday, September 1] Mr. Bush made an utterly fantastic claim: that nobody expected the breach of the levees. In fact, there had been repeated warnings about exactly that […]
Donate Blood
For years and years, I regularly donated blood to the American Red Cross. It was easy, didn’t hurt, and helped other people. Unlike donating money, giving blood did not even deprive me of anything. As a matter of fact, after each donation I treated myself to a good steak dinner. (No, I don’t want to […]
Double the Cost of Trash
I’ll admit it. I throw away stuff that could be recycled. Actually, I throw away lots of stuff that could be recycled. I do it because I’m lazy and cheap. Whew! It feels good to get that off my chest. I suspect that there are many, many other people like me who simply find it […]
You can borrow books—and a lesbian
I used to be revolted by tattoos and piercings. Quite literally, my stomach felt queasy when I looked at some people. About ten years ago, I found myself staffing a workshop with a man that I’ll call Richard. He was capable and insightful, generally a strong asset to have at the workshop. The only problem […]
Diamonds are not forever
According to this article in PhysicsWeb, Diamonds are not forever (August 2005), diamond is no longer the hardest material. Don’t you just hate it when the underpinnings of the world, the things you know, turn out to be untrue?! The hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have […]
Touching Hearts in Unexpected Ways
Thank you, Joseph, for opening my eyes today. He wrote, “The most obvious function of the get-well messages was to help the patient feel better. But it does more than that. It helps the doctors and hospital staff feel good about what they are doing.” This put me in an introspective mood. All too often […]
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