Category: General
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Patriotism: Menace to Liberty
Men and Women:What is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars,…
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Just in time sales
Tomorrow is my 50th birthday, and I got my invitation to join AARP in the mail today. Let the senior citizen discounts begin…
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Hand & Foot card game
Learned this card game from our friends when we went to ride the Tour of Lakes.Ideally, this is a partnership game. Following are the rules for Hand and Foot. Our family loves to play this. It is better to play with either 4 or 6 people so that you have 2 or 3 teams. However…
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Applecare
After a mishap last Sunday, Jill got excited playing cribbage with our friend Dick Jordan and knocked over her glass of wine into my Macbook Pro, the Genius bar came to the rescue. I was honest with the guy about what happened, and he said he understood how that might happen, and comped the repair. …
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Towel Day Today!
Today is a very special day! Today is when we celebrate our geekiness and celebrate one of our favorite geeks, Douglas Adams.Show your geek respect today by carrying a towel all day, and participating in a nerdy event.See: Geek Pride, Towel Day, and Towel Day.org
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You are not alone
The tide seems to have turned on the general acceptance that we aren’t the beginning and ending of intelligent life in the universe. First at the end of April (25th) Stephen Hawking said, “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t…