Silence Is Productive

by Daniel O’Rourke
02/09/12

This year’s Academy Awards™ have nominated The Artist for an Oscar. The Artist is a silent comedy. In many different categories the bookies’ odds favor The Artist. In a few weeks we will know if the gamblers are right, but the fact that a silent firm is being seriously considered is itself major ( Read more... )

The Big Eight-O

by Daniel O’Rourke | 1/12/12

On December 31st last year, I turned eighty-years-old. Back in 1931 when taxes were lower and not a raging national issue; I was a tax exemption for my parents.

( I was born with the blue baby syndrome and they feared I was going to die. )

What If the Wise Men Were Women?

Daniel O’Rourke
12/22/11

Shortly after Thanksgiving, when Christmas decorations were already in the stores and Christmas merchandise crowding the shelves, my twelve-year-old granddaughter with a twinkle in her eye asked me, “Grandpa, what if the Christmas wise men were women?”

( I pleaded ignorance.... )

You Are Not Up There, God

12/08/11

by Daniel O’Rourke

Non-believing readers won’t like this column. It will be far too spiritual for them. There is no political red meat, but some of them would like the Darrell Hammond book that prompted the column. His book is a ribald, smutty, foul mouthed and often-hilarious look inside the troubled life and ( Read more... )

Give Thanks For Life

by Daniel O’Rourke
11/24/11

Obviously, thanksgiving means giving thanks. On Thanksgiving Day we typically give thanks for the harvest, for the food before us, for our families and friends. Of course we should continue being thankful for all that. In past columns on this feast day, I have often advised us to do so.

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The Things that Count Cannot be Counted

by Daniel O’Rourke
11/10/11

Albert Einstein loved wordplay. He once wrote on a classroom blackboard at Princeton, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

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Yes, I haven't posted anything in weeks.  New year and trying diligently to keep to the new resolutions -- and it's  a lot of 'attention-to-detail' -type work.  Which leaves less time for posting.  As if mindless work warrants some blog posts about it.

One of the things I'm doing in keeping the resolutions is "get organized".  Well, there's more to ( Read more... )

As per tradition...

I present:  A Christmas Miracle.  It Truly Is.


Disclaimer ( Read more... )

San Jose's new terminal has both free WiFi ...  And each chair at every gate has two electrical outlets and a USB charging port ( Read more... )

I was following an older user on LiveJournal who was writing up his memories of his time in the US Army during the Korean War and about his re-adjustment upon his return home.  What made this uniquely interesting was that he was telling his story against the DADT ("Don't Ask / Don't Tell") debate going on, today ( Read more... )