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Question for an Engineer
If my father, a former engineer, were still alive, I’m sure he could answer this. When there is a problem in the electrical grid (downed wire, broken transformer, etc.), why doesn’t the current just automatically reroute, like the telephone or the internet?
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Back to the Desktop
I decided to retire the Toshiba Qosmio laptop that I was using as a backup computer/desktop replacement. It’s a beautiful laptop-I especially like the large screen and backlit keyboard-but it has never worked quite right since I bought it used on Ebay. It didn’t help that when it arrived it was not packaged properly, and I had to replace the screen ( Read more... ) -
Honda Dealer
Sitting here waiting for my car at the brand-spanking-new Honda service center in Cockeysville. They have a comfortable waiting area complete with a decent café and a wall-mounted HD television. I think it is no accident that the TV is always tuned to the Food Network. -
Dickens, continued
It turns out Dickens is truly a “he,” somewhere from 2-4 years old, neutered. The vet recommended sedating him in order to groom him, and shaving his belly because his fur was so tangled. I am sure he will feel much better afterward. Am going to visit him tonight, and hope to get some photos of him after he has been cleaned and groomed.
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Osama bin Laden
So Obama can say “mission accomplished” on this particular occasion. Another crime of bin Laden’s: to have that much money at your disposal and use it to wage destruction rather than doing something to improve the world (i.e., HELP people, not destroy them) and make a positive difference. What a waste. In addition to being a religious fanatic, he ( Read more... ) -
God's Fan Club
One last post about death and dying and all that good stuff, and then I’ll move on. We went to the funeral for Tim’s colleague last week. Her friends and the minister got up and said some nice, often humorously true, things about her life. Then the minister got deep into the “god talk,” about needing Jesus in your life, yada-yada. I couldn’t stop ( Read more... ) -
life/death/WTF
Not quite sure where this came from, but I wrote the poem below (the first one in almost ten months) for my husband, thinking about the recent (sudden) loss of one of his friends. I am usually more upbeat, but an unexpected death makes one pensive.
A friend told me last night that he thought one of his other friends was tired of life. My ( Read more... )
