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Edison

Mike — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:56:18 +0000

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Alva Edison

Cost of Education

Mike — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:45:59 +0000

Read in the paper this morning that a school district in Maine is giving iPads to each enrolling kindergartner. Yes, that’s kindergartner. They’re getting the $700 models. I think I’ll go back to school.

No wonder the cost per student in the US is around 10 grand each.

A Couple of Thoughts

Mike — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:43:22 +0000

I just went through my many boxes of electronic stuff to organize and throw out. I don’t know how I did it, but among the yards of phone lines, miles of coaxial cable, and plethora of plugs, I found 15, count ‘em, 15 AC adapters of various sizes and voltages. These do not include all the cell phone chargers, of which we have many. I must have kept them in spite of tossing the equipment to which they supply the juice.

I’m also getting real tired of this Halloween theme I’ve got going here. I’m glad October is almost over so I can change it. Maybe I’ll change it anyway.

Once in a black and blue moon . . .

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:09:20 +0000

Found in The Villages Daily Sun:

Berlin — Reuters

A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

Dangling by his trousers, the 22-year-old journalism student got pulled along for about 200 meters, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.

The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake.

Rescue services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.

Moral of the story: When your mother told you, “Just keep your pants on,” she wasn’t whistling Dixie.

History and Governments

Mike — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:16:22 +0000

“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” —William H. Borah

The Road to Hell

Mike — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:51:59 +0000

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”— Stephen King

Politics

Mike — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:26:20 +0000

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”¹

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Ernest Benn

Tools

Mike — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:15 +0000

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”¹

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Abraham Maslow

Inflation

Mike — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:30:09 +0000

Last month Comcast changed their bills to full color. This month they raised their rates.¹ I guess they figure if they look cool we won’t notice the rate increase.

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Perhaps to pay for the full color.

Ahh, Politics

Mike — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:22:02 +0000

“In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.” –Napoleon Bonaparte