Friday, October 25, 2024
Photo of the house taken from the car going up the driveway.
Monday, October 21, 2024
I had to take the van down to the garage to get the tail pipe fixed and
saw this Studebaker in the lot. They only made the "Power Hawk" in 1955
(almost as old as me). 
Friday, October 18, 2024
I tried to walk today in Flanders's but I
couldn't make it very far at all. Walked the road.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
David Brooks once again has a column that is right on. In his current column he ask
What is MAGA, anyway?.
In the article he describes how MAGA provides security but that it comes from a
scarcity mindset, a zero sum kind of thinking that is far from the
abundance
way of thinking that is more traditionally American and that we need right now.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Bret Stephens, a conservative commentator at the New York Times has an article Republicans Will Regret a Second Trump Term that I think describes pretty accurately what a second Trump term will be like.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Can Men Live Without War?
In 1956 Vannevar
Bush wrote an article for The
Atlanticasking this question ending with the following
paragraph.
No more war? Peace is indeed in sight if we are wise. But not an end of
contest or struggle. And certainly not an end of opportunity, which may
render the lives of those who follow us not insipid but virile, not
belligerent but creative.
Read the whole thing!
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Oh my! What kind of instrument is this? Watch this in full screen mode.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Thursday, May 09, 2024
This just unfurled today.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
Rewilding the Internet: - this is nothing new but the authors expose how the Internet has become a mono-culture. Do your part to reclaim our spaces both in Nature and the Internet.
Friday, May 03, 2024
It's racing season in Kentucky. These are beautiful farms. The Derby is tomorrow.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Images from 3 years of War in Ukraine We need to look at these more often to get better at what war looks like.
Monday, April 22, 2024
It's a big tree on the board walk to Little Pond at White Memorial.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
This is what the fortifications look like that the Russians are using in Ukraine.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
David Brooks has articulated a compelling argument why Hamas must be defeated. This won't be pleasant or easy but I think David is right.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Join your vcard and rss feed to create a complete profile
So that's when I realized, if there's a widely used open standard for feeds, and another for profiles, why not join the two? By embedding an RSS/Atom feed URL in a vCard, it becomes a single file that has all the information needed to identify a person and follow their updates. Since it's a single file, it's easy to share it with others as well as store the vCards for all your connections locally.
Monday, March 04, 2024
This is pay-walled by the times but is definitely worth trying to see. Every one of them made me smile and the artist seems to be a joy and someone who loves the city.
Friday, February 09, 2024
You read an article by someone and you think this person is different. Alec Wilkinson is that kind of person. I read the first article (about learning math at 65) not knowing who he was but then I learned he was a writer for the New Yorker for the last 40 years. Here is a link to an article in the New Yorker about the jazz guitarist Julian Lage. If I could only be this cool!
Thursday, February 08, 2024
This
article about the production (and shortage) of 155m Artillery Shells is
informative and brings you back to the industrial basis of war. The 10 minute
video is worth the time and many readers will have never seen a close up of an
industrial process.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand
worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
As seen in Hacker
News
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Religious organizations doing good! Hundreds of faith groups are using their property to build homes.
For cash-poor congregations that face declining revenue and member participation and rising maintenance costs, developing housing can offer a financial benefit while also expanding their social mission.
Friday, January 19, 2024
We are in Kentucky working on cleaning out Corby's Dad's house and it has been very cold and snowing.
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Paper wings, all torn and bent
You made me feel that
They were heaven sent
Paper wings, not real at all
But they took me high
Enough to really fall
Your paper kisses faded too soon
Just like a paper rose
'Neath a paper moon
Paper wings, paper wings
Oh how could I expect
To fly with only paper wings?
Angels were singing, didn't you hear
If only I'd listened close
When they whispered in my ear
Paper wings, paper wings
Oh how could I expect
To fly with only paper wings?
I tried to fly but found
That I had only paper wings
Sunday, January 07, 2024
Connecticut Business and Industry Association [CBIA] has a good article concerning AI, "Ten Strategies for Using AI in Manufacturing" I just recently learned about the group.
Friday, January 05, 2024
David Brooks has an article today in the NYT that is better than usual. It's about how to return to a positive-sum world of growth, innovation and peace. I'm all for that.
Michelle Goldberg also has a good article in today's NYT. America Must Face Up to Israel’s Extremism
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Corby finished her Christmas puzzle. It takes a lot of work to complete these 1000 piece puzzles but she is pretty good at it.
