Category: General
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An Empty Nest
Today is different. It is challenging to put into words what is different. I know what has changed, but finding the words is difficult. More than 36 years ago, I was sitting in an operating room as a doctor was cutting my wife’s belly open. I was in scrubs, looking and feeling out of place.…
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The Education Industry
My wife is a teacher. She is a darn good teacher. She has a couple of masters, is working on another, besides having a bachelors. She is constantly doing continuing education classes. For years, I would talk about The Teachers Union in a negative light. She took that as a personal attack because she is…
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The Internet Is Forever
We live in a strange world. There is so much information at our fingertips that it is almost impossible to comprehend just how much of an information age we live in. I’ve talked about this in the past, my mother was a telephone operator, as was her sister. They worked in a large town in…
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If Your Message Is Good, Why Lie?
A First Principle is that two things can be true at the same time. I can be fat and I can be old. Both are true, at the same time. Next, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? 50 years ago, a picture was worth a thousand words, and it could…
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AAR – TDY Dad’s House
Dad is in long-term care. He will never return to the home he shared with his wife, my mother, for the last 20+ years. Last week was a hard trip to say goodbye. He was in good spirits and doing “ok”. He is not nearly as sharp as he was a couple of years ago.…
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Taking care of infrastructure
I started caring about computer infrastructure in the early 1980s. We feed our computer via punch cards, 9 track tape, and a few dozen hardwired terminals at 4800 baud. We upgraded our network. We got our IBM 3090 on BITNET. I learned more about networking. We upgraded to 10base2 when our Sun 360s arrived. More…
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Olympic Shooting Sports
There are 15 shooting sports in the current Olympic Games: 10m Air Rifle Men 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 10m Air Pistol Men 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Trap Men Skeet Men 10m Air Rifle Women 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women 10m Air Pistol Women 25m Pistol Women Trap Women Skeet Women 10m Air Rifle…
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Where’s the Gold?
This dude looks relaxed and laid back as he takes the Bronze. What is spectacular, in this picture, is that he doesn’t look like a cyborg. No fancy gizmos, nothing except ear plugs and prescription glasses. Why is some random ex-cop from Turkey taking a bronze in a shooting competition? The top four slots should…
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Communism == Jealousy
If you are reading this, you are part of the 1% richest people in the world. I can confidently say that because there are so many people living in object poverty. Not poverty as defined by the government, but actual poverty. The government likes to define poverty in relative terms. This means that when you…
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