Today I picked up the wrong lunch on my way out the door. I was on the road for my day job and I picked up a brown sack with what I thought contained two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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Remember when?
Whenever a civilization perishes, there is always one condition present. They forgot where they came from. –Carl Sandburg I read the this quote and I thought of it’s application to many areas of my life but also our lives as people and as citizens of the world and our particular countries. Failure to remember when … Read more
Open Office v. Microsoft Office
This week a fellow member of the faculty where I work suggested that our use of Open Office with students was actually prohibiting those students from getting employment when they left our school.
Accu-wrath
Bill Maher strikes the funny bone again with the Accu-Wrath weather forecast.
Living for others
Sunday was one of those beautiful days of mid spring that abound in Western New York. May is a time here when Mother Earth comes back to life.
Surprise flight
This morning I was at Olean Airport delivering a computer system I had rebuilt and installed Ubuntu 7.04 on. I decided to wait until the gentleman who donated the computer arrived from his home.
Nonviolence invites us to…
I first read this a year ago and it is true or truer now than then. Nonviolence invites us: * To learn to recognize and respect the sacred in every person, including in ourselves, and in every part of creation. The acts of the nonviolent person help to free this sacredness in the opponent from … Read more
Good government
I just finished reading Scott Adams post on “Best Government Ever.” It’s quite a contrast from the pablum we are served up everyday here in the United States. Click here to read what Scott has written.
Leaders? What Leaders?
Last week in a phone conversation with my Mother I learned of a new book by an old favorite. Lee Iacocca who along with Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Congress rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy has authored a new book. Iacocca was a breath of fresh air twenty years ago and at eighty-two years young he’s still full of vitality.