I have suddenly realized that there are an increasing number of old man noises that seem to be emanating from my aging body. Certain people in my direct orbit have made me painfully aware of this phenomena. Initially, I sloughed the whole concept off as utter folderol. Recent events, however, have bitch slapped me into […]
One of the fears we all have, regardless of age, sex, or religion, is prison. We”re all told from birth that prison is a really really dark and dangerous place. This is all reinforced by the endless list of prison dramas where young men are “shivved” because they reached over the plate of a fellow
Christmas has dribbled away like the last drops from my cup of Maxwell House. It is somewhat of a melancholy realization that Christmas just ain’t what it used to be. Used to be that the gifts were piled to the sky, kids woke you up at 5 AM on Christmas day, and then harassed you
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Way back in the before times, when engineering school was foremost in my mind, I took a couple of courses in control systems engineering. Control systems engineering studies the modeling of dynamic systems and the design of controllers that will make such systems behave in some predefined way. It makes use of complex mathematical equations
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Watching the Wizard of Oz for the eleventeenth time and noticed for the first time that the Scarecrow’s seeming brilliance after receiving the Doctor of Thinkology degree stating The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side is complete bullshit.
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There is this hypothesis called Occam’s Razor. It goes something like … the simplest explanation is the most probable. Or maybe in the words of Theodore Woodward, the guy who cured typhoid fever, “When you hear hoof beats, think of horses and not zebras”. Well, the hoofbeat I am hearing today is that of an
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Philosophical thought for the day – Once you are caught eating paste, you are branded a “paste eater” for the rest of your school years. For the “word curious” – A “paste eater” in the original literal sense is a small schoolchild (usually male) who develops a fondness for the taste of the white paste traditionally
I am outraged, you are outraged, the whole damn world is outraged. The adage that “old age is an excellent time for outrage” appears to ring painfully true. I do not remember ever being outraged as a young person. The older I get, the more easily I become outraged by any person, place, action, or
What can I say about poverty? It seems to me that we all think we are poor to some extent. A wise old drunkard once told me that feeling rich is all about desiring less and not about wanting more. Desiring more and then obtaining the object of your desire makes you feel rich, for
Yogi Bear claimed to be smarter than the average bear. I am not sure that the average bear is all that smart to begin with. This was just Yogi’s way of saying that he had that special street smart edge on all those that would be out to interfere with his way of life. It
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