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Though I don’t know why, I continue to cut and paste odd keyword referrals from Mint to a text file in BBEdit. From that list I culled the most memorable. Once again some of my more impulsive blog postings along with unexpected juxtapositions created by WordPress or my eclectic collection of quotations has resulted in [...]

I watched his funeral the other day on TV. I missed much of the music but I caught Jesse Jackson’s and pretty much every other speech. I’m actually a big fan of the old school funk. James Brown isn’t a saint, he was domineering and undereducated. His songwriting was very organic, often he would come [...]

2006 was largely a waste, I finished my MBA but I still haven’t recovered. One thing I did do was write a lot of crap in this blog. Most of it isn’t of interested to anyone or at least very, very, very few people. Sometimes it is better to say nothing than to speak the [...]

I just watched “The Big Lebowski” again. I was going to watch it last night, but I discovered my VCR was dead. My mom thinks it was killed by some sort of power surge as it has hardly been used. It wasn’t one of our recent storms, but rather died while I was in China. [...]

Yesterday, yes yesterday, we had a large family dinner at my mother’s house. It was a potluck, but still as the hosts we had to do more than our share of preparation. I never had to cook anything, but I did get up at 7am to start cleaning and setting up. I’d been cleaning and [...]