The End of the Beginning
I haven't blogged much for a long time, though I have wanted to. I'm not sure exactly why I haven't. There is a demotivation poster from despair.com that says, "Blogging: Never before have so many...
Who's Shrugging Now?
I’ve been reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the last few days. I’m only into a little over 20%. That is when I figured out who John Galt is…couldn’t Ayn have made it a little more difficult to...
Great Books
I have started a 10-year reading plan that touches on a lot of great books. The plan is based on a volume of books called Great Books of the Western World. Here is a web site that takes about the...
Positive Proof
I have followed and enjoyed the work of Project Gutenberg since the early to mid-nineties. I have always wanted to participate somehow, but always worried about taking on too much and letting down...
Socrates On Death...
This is, perhaps, my favorite argument of Socrates, one that I have had for years, and now I find that Socrates had it long before me. Moreover, we may hence conclude that there is great hope that...
CD: Shatner - Has Been
A new CD arrived in the mail yesterday. I ordered William Shatner's Has Been album from BMG. The album is much better than I expected. In fact, I expected that I would regret getting this CD. But...
Top Holiday Injury For Men
According to a co-worker...who heard it on a CBS radio news update...the number one thing that lands men in the emergency room during the holiday season is...drum roll please...stacking up,...
0.5 watts of nothing but POWER
I made a contact last night using the K7DAV repeater located on Antelope Island. Started out on 2 watts, but stepped it down to 0.5 watts on my handheld radio using a mag mount on top of my roof,...
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
Upon arriving at work this morning, I found that I was out of Dr Thunder, Walmart's cheap knockoff of Dr Pepper. I don't remember drinking the last one in my twelve-pack. I don't remember throwing...