Monthly Archives: August 2013
What Brought You to Blogging?
How did you come to blogging? For me it was reading a magazine article saying how a number of people were starting their own personal blogs. They didn’t have many followers, but it was easy and inexpensive to do. I … Continue reading
Posted in Life As a Shared Adventure
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Infected Brains?
America’s promise to punish Assad for using chemical weapons — in spite of the fact that the countries who have been urging us to do so are now backpedaling — reminds me of a segment I saw in Planet Earth. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Life As a Shared Adventure
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To Blog or Not To Blog
Some people have been urging bikehikebabe to start blogging. In fact, she’s had a blog since August, 2009 and never posted on it — she’s already up to her ears in other things. But then she posted these comments on … Continue reading
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Food Texture
What’s your favorite food texture? Chewy (43% of population), Crunchy (33% of population), Smooth, often called Creamy but it doesn’t have to contain fat (16% of population), or Hard (for sucking, 8% of population)? Do you know? Do you care? … Continue reading
Posted in Lifelong Learning
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Time For New Drivers?
Some people are worried that today’s youngsters will be dangerous drivers — they’re so wrapped up in phoning and texting they aren’t learning to focus. Those worriers must not know about Google’s work on driverless cars: Not only … Continue reading
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Inattentional Blindness
Inattentional blindness — not seeing something in plain sight because the mind is paying attention to something else. We all know it’s dangerous to text or use hand-held cell phones while driving, but it’s also dangerous for the driver to … Continue reading
Posted in Lifelong Learning
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The Life of the Party
Modern technology isn’t just for the young. Thanks to a robot a frail 82-year-old mother was the life of her son’s wedding celebrations in Paris. She wasn’t able to travel, so she interacted with the guests from the comfort of … Continue reading
Posted in Change
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The One-Minute Zillionaire
Our local online newsletter told me about Lowell Christiansen’s book, The One-Minute Zillionaire: Achieve Wealth, Fame, and Success in an Instant Give or Take a Hundred Years. Christiansen is a local author and it sounded like a fun read, so … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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Find a Happy Person…
Find a happy person, and you will find a project. — Sonja Lyubomirsky I like that quote because it’s true for Andy. He’s a lot happier now that he can nurture his fruit trees and plan his solar hot-water system. … Continue reading
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The Printing Press
Wikipedia. In the nineteenth century people used to think of the invention of printing as the lynchpin in the history of civilisation. I’m not so sure. … Still, on balance I suppose that printing has done more good than … Continue reading
Posted in Lifelong Learning
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