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Been watching the Ken Burns The War on pbs here and there. What is brilliant is they aren't showing it from a political point of view, but rather taking towns, and showing personal stories. War is hell yes...even the "good war". It was necessary, but it was still hell. They are doing the episodes chronologically, and we had been getting to ( Read more... )

While Al grapples with this life issues, I just want to know how to shake this cold. I keep thinking, as Charlie Brown with football, that TODAY it will be fine. But it reoccurs like a Ford administration official, forever to haunt. Well sleeping today and that seems to be best remedy ( Read more... )

Ok so also had a funny skit idea, at work today one of the Phd candidates I work was preparing a presentation for some faculty about himself. You know powerpoint presentation with photos of his family and things he likes to do. He shared it with some of us, well we were sort of chuckling about how everyone puts photos like he did of his parents ( Read more... )

Ok so I heard this guy Andrew Kenn talk about his book The cult of the Amateurs (title does sound a bit like a rip off of Bonfire of the Vanities), anyways, to put it in a nut shell this guy made his fortune on the internet but is now ripping on it. Including blogging, to paraphrase what he said on Charlie Rose interview, do we really need to ( Read more... )

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No more talk of refrigerators or Rumsfeld quotes, I am back on track ( Read more... )