Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I was shocked.
What did he think he was doing?
Well, I looked deep into his recent activities and discovered ...
Another aspiring writer.
Sheldon is attending college online and is writing for a scholarship.
He has written a series of provocative articles, designed to garner eyeballs and elicit responses.
The headlines include such doozies ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
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The Book
I skimmed The Assault on Reason, by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore.
The introduction was disturbingly profound, given that he pinpointed my reasons for not voting.
He basically states that democracy, as a form of government in the United States, has been derailed by the loss of two-way communication ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Blogging's more fun when you have friends over.
Breakfast's more fun when you have fried eggs over easy.
Pinhole tagged me for a tough meme. I have to write a six-word memoir.
Damn! That means I can't sell it. Well, here it is, for free:
Doleful Loser Won - Followed ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
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Curiosity Killed the Cat . . .
What if you clicked on links without care?
Eventually, you'll click on a semi-relevant link that will make you forget what you are supposed to be doing.
It's not exactly mindless surfing, as you had set out to accomplish a task online.
As you ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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Football and the Sunday Comics, ahhhh…
I don't know if this will be a regular feature here, but I just have to share this one with you.
(Thanks StumbleUpon!)
Project: Start to Finish?
Project Life Cycle
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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If you ever read Consumer Reports, you may remember their reader-rated movie guide.
Because of the subjectivity of cinema, Consumer Reports couldn't very well put a batch of DVDs in a blender and analyze the slurry for quality.
The readers' recommendations served as the social proof that drives ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."- Henry Ford
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Henry the First
From an early age, many of us are programmed to believe that certain things are hard to accomplish.
Whether it is mastery of a musical instrument, penning poetry ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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Specialists in sub-nuclear particle research have discovered a new particle of energy.
The particle, one millionth the size of an iota of information, has been dubbed the retentron.
It travels at one third the speed of light, which is twice as slow as attention, its antimatter counterpart.
Dr. Rip V. ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I was regaling my wife with a story from my childhood.
My cousin, Todd, (no relation to my partner Rock the Todd)
told one of those long, never-ending pointless stories about a thirsty donkey in the desert.
Of course, time had muddied my recollection.
The story sort of lost something in the ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
In philosophy, where I learned about fallacies, circulus in probando was not mentioned.
Would that be because it is impossible to define circular reasoning without referring to circles or reasoning?
Pay no attention to me, I dropped that class.
I want to talk about the illogical beauty of words.
Let's play a game.
Synhomonyms
Create a ...
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