Monthly Archives: November 2008

Shoppers Not Totally Insane

The big “Black Friday” weekend went off mostly with a whimper. The only stampedes of shoppers were at places like Wal-Mart and other discount stores. While some folks did fight over choice popular merchandise, over all the mood was restrained. … Continue reading

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Jungle Stomping

Back when I first enlisted in the US Army (1979), I had been at my first assigned unit for only a few weeks when I found out a few of us were scheduled to make a trip to Panama for … Continue reading

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Questions of Legitimacy

There seems to be an awful lot of noise lately, attempting to silence dissent, about how we must reconcile ourselves to legitimate government. “So-n-so won the election and that’s that!” No, it isn’t. Merely raising the issue brings along whole … Continue reading

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Restoring the eMac

For a few months while my current system was down, I was forced to use the eMac. After a time exploring how it worked and making it as much like Linux as I could, it got old. I really don’t … Continue reading

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More Trail Finding

The biblical perspective of natural resource use says people are the reason for Creation, and the most important part of it. That gives their needs precedence over just about everything else. That’s not the same as human whims and wishes. … Continue reading

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Trail Finding

One of the numerous personality inventories I took when learning psychology and counseling left me with the label of “trailblazer.” There wasn’t room in the inventory to note that’s only an approximation. I don’t cut many paths through raw wilderness, … Continue reading

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Not a Garden Party

But I did remenisce with my old friends. I left a little early on my daily bicycle trek, and chose a route which took me past an old friend’s house. The last institutional church where I was a member did … Continue reading

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Welcome to My World

I’m pretty sure the malady we call “Attention Deficit Disorder” (ADD) is not what mainstream medicine believes it to be. Because medical science currently has distinct channels in which it is forced to operate, a great deal of useful data … Continue reading

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Twighlight of Civilization

I suppose the name of Julie Amero won’t be long or widely remembered. A substitute school teacher in some insignificant school district, she was victim of unsecured computers. The monitor on the system in her classroom assignment for the day … Continue reading

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Forget Opera

(Update: This is a really old post, and they have long since fixed the problem. I still use Opera for most browsing.) For the longest time I really liked the Opera web browser. It is quicker to load than any … Continue reading

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