My Own Thoughts

Apparently there’s a charity in Italy that helps women know how to dress. Because that’s the thing most lacking in Italy? I don’t know. I do see some relevance to it. It makes a difference in job opportunities if you know how to dress and have the right outfit. But this isn’t about jobs. Here’s [...]

Chuck has an answer for the porous borders with which I agree. Don’t expect it to be implemented, though. America wasn’t THAT isolationist before WWI or WWII. But I think it would work. Except for one thing. The limitations on the ownership of houses would have to be expanded. I don’t think that, despite the [...]

Don’t read this unless you are prepared to learn more than you wanted to know. (I could be naive. Everyone could know about this stuff, I guess.) Suspension= putting hooks through your back and hanging yourself, or having someone hang you, from the ceiling Corps (Kore? Core?)= a place where you go for suspension, you [...]

We were hacked. Teach us to keep basic words. I guess we were thinking we were superior because we use Macs. But if you don’t change the basic in-word, they’re going to hack you. Thankfully he didn’t destroy our data. However, we heard back from WordPress. Once we’ve been hacked, they can re-hack unless we [...]

The week before Christmas was fall here. The trees were brilliant colors, even the Bradford Pears. Now, though, most of the leaves have fallen and I should be out raking the lawn.

Originally I said I would make a list of all the books I read this year. I kept forgetting I was keeping the list, so some of the books I read are probably not on here. And I kept that list through June 24 when I had a list of 383 books. I kept reading, [...]

If you think your life is bad… Are you living in a modern US city without running water or sewage? Have you and your family lived that way for over 50 years? Have you been trying to get help since your grandfather bought the property? If not, you’ve probably got it easier than these folks [...]

There is a cool article in nature.com on “Language Colors Vision.” (Actually they spell it “colours” but…) The thing that struck me the most, though, is the green/blue square thing. If you were Korean you couldn’t differentiate between the squares of green better than the blue. Because Korean only has one color for those two. [...]

Now this recipe varies. I’m giving you the one I know. I will tell you that someone at my church here makes the same cake but with a chocolate cake instead of yellow. Icing: 1 stick butter 3-6 Tablespoons of cocoa (depending on how chocolate you like it) 1 package powdered sugar 1-2 Tablespoons milk [...]

This is my family’s favorite meal. It came from a church cookbook in Oregon where my dad’s middle sister was going to church with her family. She bought one for each unit in the family. So at least six of the cookbooks sold. I took it off to grad school with me. I haven’t seen [...]

In case I ever have to teach Boston by Sinclair. Sinclair was told by their attorney that the pair was guilty and that he had purchased alibis for them. Letter tells info. Sinclair was afraid to write the truth in his book because 1. His wife was afraid he’d be murdered. 2. His readers expected [...]

I got this by email today. An interesting perspective… If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops (majority of the time over 250,000) in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The [...]

I was wondering if there is a way in WordPress to put in a “below the fold” type article. Often I write things that turn out to be significantly longer than I was expecting it to be. One post could take up more than a screen. So I thought I’d ask around. I asked my computer guru. He said he didn’t know.

We drove from Houston to Arkansas in an RV. We had to buy premium unleaded, the expensive stuff. The cost of this stuff, at places we did and didn’t stop, ranged from $2.11 to $2.45. I’m glad my car doesn’t require premium.

I didn’t even listen to the news for info on Christmas spending. I knew Christmas spending was up. Why? Because my mall, the one that in prior years has been 50% full when others are at 99% capacity (The radio reports these things in Houston.), has been full for over a week before Christmas and [...]

Wired has a list of 2005′s sexiest geeks. But they left out the sexiest geek. They left out the geek who is the best friend, best lover, best husband. They left out my geek. Honey, they’re so wrong.

Joanne Jacobs has an entry on how gaming teaches. Since I have two gamers, I am always glad to hear the good news. A few weeks ago I sent this Tech Central article to my eldest. It is an in-depth article. For just one bite, on the question of violence in video games: Professor Jonathan [...]

I have always believed that the Bible is true. I still believe that the Bible is true. But I have wondered how others reconcile the truth of the Bible and science. I have always said that the seven days of creation were not literally seven days. It seems like that ought to be obvious because [...]

My brother was born prematurely, with a small, closing hole to his stomach that made it almost impossible to feed him. At the time, I was just over a year old. My mother was 17. My father was 22. They’d been married two and a half years. My mom hadn’t finished high school yet. My [...]

If you still have family around, ask how they met. Write it down. According to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, your children will be better off if they know your family history. The article, which my father told me about, is here. What they’re finding is that a sense of family history is linked to self-esteem [...]