Letters

Digital Dust

October 22, 2008

Sitting on my desk is a collection of old diskettes, about to be thrown out. But they are also a philosophical muse. They are 3.5″ plastic diskettes. I remember the day when computers used 5.25″ diskettes. They were called floppy disks then, because they were floppy. They had a certain sense of importance about them–large [...]

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700 Ft

September 10, 2008

For all of my faithful readers . . . here is a video. I have never posted a video before, but this one is different. I took it. You are invited to take a journey with me, down a very long and very steep hill. As best as could be determined from a topographical map, [...]

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No Going Back

July 30, 2008

On the 4th of July, the extended family held a gathering at an RV campground in Pennsylvania. A pavilion was rented, food contributions lined up, and then the day arrived. As it happened, I had been to the RV campground many years ago. Many years ago Grandma and Grandpa had a camper at the campground, [...]

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Farming The Government Way

May 27, 2008

An AP article on May 15th caught my attention. The title said: House approves $290B farm bill. What really caught my attention was the line which said, almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land Stop a moment to consider. That is $30 billion paid out to farmers so they will not [...]

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Interesterified Fat and Prenatal Urination

February 24, 2008

What do interesterified fat and prenatal urination have in common? Nothing, except I learned something new about both of them recently. It would be very interesting if they had something more in common than that. As it is, I found what I learned about both to be both educational and interesting. Perhaps you will also [...]

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Photos Round 2

February 10, 2008

Long time readers of this website will perhaps remember my previous attempt to add a photo section to this website. I called it an experiment. As such, it failed. It failed primarily from lack of time. If I had been willing, or able, to take more time to upload random (or selected) photos from my [...]

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Early Autumn, Late Afternoon

November 23, 2007

[Note: This week I was doing cleanup and going through my old pads of note paper. On one pad, stuck in among some other writing, I found this short descriptive essay. It had no date attached and I can't recall exactly what year I wrote it. It was probably about four years ago, and I [...]

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The Price of Milk

November 9, 2007

I guess you could call it a sign of the times we live in–the economic times we live in, I mean. I don’t carefully follow the price of all groceries when I do my weekly shopping, but I do keep a regular eye on the price of a gallon of milk. The recent trend has [...]

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This Little Piggy

October 6, 2007

Happy piggy, concerned responsible dog One of the fun things about taking bicycle rides is you never know what you will come across. Sometimes you might see turkey vultures, other times . . . a pig. Yes, this little piggy went to market. At least, he started that direction before he was sidetracked by the [...]

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Those Darn Geese

August 28, 2007

Remember those neighborhood geese I wrote about previously? They have made themselves unwelcome. I have watched with some amusement as the neighborhood has soured to the geese. I wonder how many of the local residents saw where things were headed when the geese took up residence. I’m not surprised at how it has turned out, [...]

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