Thoughts

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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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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The Interview

May 21, 2007

As done by aSeamstress. 1.What is the best piece of advice that you’ve ever been given? The best advice was from my Dad. Rather than being a piece of advice he has given on one particular occasion it has been his general exhortation to me in life. Distilled down to a pithy saying, it would [...]

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Full Circle

December 31, 2006

It’s strange how life can travel in full circles. The years roll past and what once was is now reversed. When I was growing up my grandparents had a camper in a summer RV camp in Pennsylvania. For a few summers around the time I was 12 they invited us three oldest boys for a [...]

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I Remember

September 12, 2006

Note: The following piece was written shortly after the events of September 11th, 2001. This website was not in existence then, and I am republishing the essay here, five years later. The tone of writing reflects the time in which it was written, and I felt it might form an interesting pair with my retrospective [...]

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That Day, September 11th

September 11, 2006

Five years later . . . Where Were You? I missed the bus. It’s strange how the small things stick in your mind. Since we live out in the country I rode in with my Dad to where he worked and picked up the bus there for the rest of the trip in to college. [...]

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What About Your Inbox?

September 9, 2006

This past week there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about people and their e-mail inboxes. People, the article said, fall into two categories: those who throw everything out, and those who keep everything. It wasn’t a particularly new or unique subject, or take on the matter, but it was still fascinating as [...]

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Pringles?

August 19, 2006

Twice this summer I have house-sat (or, more precisely, dog-sat) for my uncle. His family doesn’t like sending their dogs to the kennel when they go on vacation and it is a way for me to earn a bit of money. People who hear of this say, “Oh, so you get a vacation too” but [...]

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