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Thank goodness for Obama!
Here's Obama's commencement address to Arizona State University ( Read more... ) -
Another relevant quote for our times
Here's another relevant quote I ran into:
"I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it."
-- John McCain, 2000
Guess what John ( Read more... ) -
700 billion = the number of stars in seven galaxies
This popped up on the quote of the day (actually, it’s three-quote-of-the-day) section on my customized iGoogle home page:
"There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
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The Horrors of plastic bags
I recently dug out a bunch of canvas bags I've gotten as schwag at computer shows and such, because I was drowning in plastic bags from stores and wanted to stop using them. I've got 3 or 4 bags of bags in the kitchen, in the garage, etc. I felt bad about throwing them away. I used them as trash can liners, etc, and tried to get paper whenever ( Read more... ) -
Broke my iPhone!
ARGH! My brand new iPhone somehow popped out of the belt holster and landed (of course) on the concrete, fracturing the (glass!) screen. Not the LCD, mind you, just the glass cover over the LCD ( Read more... ) -
He's back!
The crowd goes wild!
Thanks, Jolie, for reminding me that I had a LiveJournal blog.
I supposed I should post here sometimes.
But what about Blogspot/Blogger...and MySpace...and....
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Welcome to my journal!
Just the first entry, to see if it's working.
