Month: July 2006

  • Posterity

    Why should I care about posterity?  What’s posterity ever done for me?Groucho Marx

  • Morons

    WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership.  He received a $26 million severance package.  Perhaps it’s not Walter who’s lacking intelligence.WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS:Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside…

  • Change

    Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett

  • Has George Bush started World War III?

    The Middle East was an unstable place before the War on Terror/Saddam/radical Islam started, but it seems things are heating up even more with Israel popping off at it’s neighbors.  Is this the precursor to another global conflict?

  • Ray Kurzweil

    Last night, the Graduate Programs in Software, IT & IS at the University of Saint Thomas celebrated their 20th Anniversary with a talk by Ray Kurzweil.His talk was most interesting and focused mostly on his belief that all progress in technology follows a logrithmic curve.  We live in a linear world, but that isn’t how…

  • One day at a time

    One day at a time—this is enough.  Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone…Ida Scott Taylor

  • Full set

    After six years of problems with one of my molars, the crown was cemented on my dental implant this morning.  After a crown, a root canal, an extraction, an implant, and finally the new crown, I can chew with the left side of my mouth, and eat popsicles without pain.  Yipee!It all started in July…