My mind drifts back to a time just before I graduated from high school when my gramma was still alive. Gramma Roxana was a devoted church goer that regularly attended the local Methodist church over on State Street in my home town. In fact at one time, when I was a wee lad, she regularly […]
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Today, I got lost in the woods. I am not talking in metaphors here, I am talking about an honest to goodness fucking lost without knowing where I was and not sure if I would survive, lost in the goddamn woods. It all started out so idyllically with a wander down a trail in the
Apparently, a certain well known poem is now in the public domain. According to an article that I read on copyright law, the poem below is now owned by the public and not any particular author. So the question is, can I now claim that I wrote it? Maybe the biggest stick in the craw
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Consider for just a moment what you are doing right now. Now consider what that is going to look like to you thirty years from now. I’m not talking about reading this goofy blog, I’m talking about what the hell you are doing with your life. When you look back on what you did with
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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
Why don’t you just tell me the name of the movie you have selected? Read More »
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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