tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40934172011-06-07T23:40:12.690-07:00Lake MusingsThe lake.org blogJamesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-90318962247061224602007-09-28T07:58:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:01:32.463-07:00"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -SchopenhauerJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-8218372611420798172007-08-21T19:50:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:04:34.236-07:00"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."- Napoleon BonaparteJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-36176298480946880052007-08-19T09:31:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:07:08.490-07:00AN UNEXPECTED MEETINGWe treat each other with exceeding courtesy;we say, it's great to see you after all these years.Our tigers drink milk.Our hawks tread the ground.Our sharks have all drowned.Our wolves yawn beyond the open cage.Our snakes have shed their lightning,our apes their flights of fancy,our peacocks have renounced their plumes.The bats flew out of our hair long ago.We fall silent in Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1148954415176654942006-05-29T18:53:00.000-07:002006-05-29T20:06:26.866-07:00"What is the single thread that runs through all your teaching and pulls it all together?" - student"Look into your own heart. Discover what it is that gives you pain. And then refuse to inflict that pain on anybody else." - Confucius_______"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." - Matthew 7:12_______"...Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1144212127857084972006-04-04T21:39:00.000-07:002006-04-04T21:52:33.963-07:00"For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1143705821189343602006-03-30T00:01:00.000-08:002006-03-30T00:03:41.200-08:00"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun."- Ecclesiastes 8:15Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1141631439037954472006-03-05T23:03:00.000-08:002006-03-05T23:52:38.536-08:00"And remember her (Mary) who guarded her chastity whereupon We (God) breathed into her of Our spirit and caused her, together with her son (Isa - Jesus), to become a symbol of Our Grace to all people."- Holy Qur'an 21:91Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1139449484146093372006-02-08T17:43:00.000-08:002006-02-08T17:44:44.156-08:00"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."- Stephen Jay GouldJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1138322303166935182006-01-26T16:35:00.000-08:002006-01-26T16:38:23.180-08:00“[The evil days of old age come] and one fears heights, and perils in the street; when the almond tree blooms, and the locust grows sluggish and the caper berry is destroyed, because man goes to his lasting home; and mourners go about the streets…” Ecclesiastes 12:5The origin of "The Grasshopper Lays Heavily", the book inside "The Man in the High Castle"Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1137255532513455702006-01-14T08:18:00.000-08:002006-01-14T08:18:52.523-08:00"Immoral means cannot bring moral ends, for the ends are pre-existent in the means."-Martin Luther KingJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1131037886433068432005-11-03T09:08:00.000-08:002005-11-03T09:11:26.443-08:00`Sci-fi can be succinctly defined as speculation, whether based on established scientific facts or on logical pseudo-facts consistent with the framework of the fiction in question, involving smelly green pimply aliens furiously raping or eating, or both, beautiful naked bare-breasted chicks, covering them in slime, red, oozing, living slime, dribbling from every horrific orifice, squeezing out Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1130906831714122962005-11-01T20:45:00.000-08:002005-11-01T20:52:08.923-08:00"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."- Graham Green (The Quite American)Americans are "innocent" not "idealistic".Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1123044674083436352005-08-02T21:46:00.000-07:002005-08-02T21:54:45.170-07:00"Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie."-Jean Luc GodardJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1115050455835101312005-05-02T09:12:00.000-07:002005-05-02T09:14:15.836-07:00"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."~William E. Gladstone, 1866Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1114750667424221492005-04-28T21:55:00.000-07:002005-04-28T21:59:30.116-07:00For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:Job 19:25Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1111735594601514662005-03-24T23:25:00.000-08:002005-03-24T23:27:48.850-08:00Under the spreading chestnut treeI sold you and you sold me:There lie they, and here lie weUnder the spreading chestnut tree.- George Orwell (1984)Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1110548466818551192005-03-11T05:40:00.000-08:002005-03-11T05:45:27.836-08:00"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave, ... It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen cry peace, peace - but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1108180120057457862005-02-11T19:45:00.000-08:002005-02-11T19:55:23.776-08:00Letter to the congregation in Corinth“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not selfseeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”-St. Paul - 1 Corinthians 13:4,5Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1106242562120452572005-01-20T09:34:00.000-08:002005-01-20T09:38:40.266-08:00"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction!"Abraham Lincoln Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1106200293252535592005-01-19T21:50:00.000-08:002005-01-19T21:57:24.856-08:00“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”Adam SmithJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1102116779262893512004-12-03T15:19:00.000-08:002004-12-03T15:38:48.650-08:00Even a "just war" is a fountain of evil.
"Anyone who looks with anguish on evils so great, so repulsive, so savage, must acknowledge the tragedy of it all; and if anyone experiences them or even looks on at them without anguish, his condition is even more tragic, since he remains serene by losing his humanity."Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1094246890512465282004-09-03T14:26:00.000-07:002004-12-03T15:48:12.176-08:00"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1093331093013110852004-08-24T01:03:00.000-07:002004-12-03T15:49:24.763-08:00"Insane asylums are filled with people who think they're Jesus or Satan. Very few have delusions of being a guy down the block who works for an insurance company."Chuck Barris
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1091504711338916192004-08-02T20:41:00.000-07:002004-12-03T15:51:39.330-08:00A leader "ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred."Machiavelli
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1089157475100196282004-07-06T16:40:00.000-07:002004-12-03T15:53:08.983-08:00"I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."Martin Luther King
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1089068153713527282004-07-05T15:53:00.000-07:002004-12-03T15:57:07.033-08:00"Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake."George Bernard Shaw
"Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy."Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1084157397888052212004-05-09T19:48:00.000-07:002004-05-09T19:49:57.886-07:00"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country, and we will help them rid Iraq of these killers."
-George W. Bush on Al Arabiya TVJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1083799823853115452004-05-05T16:28:00.000-07:002007-08-19T09:40:40.411-07:00In Praise of Feeling Bad About YourselfThe buzzard never says it is to blame.The panther wouldn't know what scruples mean.When the piranha strikes it feels no shame.If snakes had hands they'd claim their hands were clean... On this third planet of the sun.Among the signs of bestiality.A clear conscience is Number One.Wislawa Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Laureate in LiteratureJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1082737833747313462004-04-23T09:30:00.000-07:002004-04-23T09:34:36.030-07:00You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
- Boris YeltsinJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1082253388472323142004-04-17T18:54:00.000-07:002004-04-17T19:00:23.793-07:00"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators."
-Gen. Frederick Stanley Maude (head of the British occupation forces in Iraq, 1920)Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1082169881406814422004-04-16T19:44:00.000-07:002004-04-16T19:48:34.793-07:00"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho MarxJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1082016584779824262004-04-15T01:09:00.000-07:002004-04-15T01:13:36.343-07:00"How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake?"
-John Kerry, 1971Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1081960878486428032004-04-14T09:37:00.000-07:002004-04-14T09:45:08.716-07:00"The Art of War is so well study'd, and so equally known in all Places, that 'tis the longest Purse that conquers now, not the longest Sword. If there is any Country whose people are less martial, less enterprising, and less able for the Field; yet if they have but more Money than their Neighboor, they shall soon be superior to them in Strength, for Money is Power..."
-Daniel Defoe Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1081960350899365492004-04-14T09:31:00.000-07:002004-04-14T09:36:21.233-07:00"Intelligence is the soul of all public business"
-Daniel DefoeJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1080343865871833082004-03-26T15:30:00.000-08:002004-03-26T15:34:31.606-08:00
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's RainbowJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1079129895970676242004-03-12T14:16:00.000-08:002004-03-12T14:21:23.233-08:00I do not want history to tell me Nineveh or Babylon is ruined or Jerusalem in the hands of the Gentiles. I do not admit history to be, in any sense, necessary to the understanding of prophecy.
- John Darby (fundamentalist eschatolist)Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1079057453369490442004-03-11T18:03:00.000-08:002004-03-11T18:13:59.640-08:00 "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
- George W. Bush, discussing Kosovo, Houston Chronicle, 04-09-99
"I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."
- Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1072743950301625722003-12-29T16:25:00.000-08:002003-12-29T16:27:19.763-08:00One weird side effect of the flu. Pessimism. I don't think i've been this 'down', 'negative' and pessimistic in years. And there's no logical reason for it, other than the flu virus.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1072743103252416662003-12-29T16:11:00.000-08:002003-12-29T16:13:12.903-08:00It's official... HON - News : CDC: Flu Outbreak Now an Epidemic
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1072742970532799952003-12-29T16:09:00.000-08:002003-12-29T16:25:06.403-08:00Flu deaths may exceed 36,000 in 2003-4
Influenza researchers say this year they expect the death toll nationwide from flu-related complications to surpass the average of 36,000.
The majority of flu deaths are among the elderly. Apparently the average deaths run inthe 20,000 to 30,000 per year range. So nothing new here. Only difference this year is it's getting media attention. Maybe because earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1072741264519124542003-12-29T15:41:00.000-08:002003-12-29T15:42:33.733-08:00The flu of 2003-2004
Everyone in our house has the flu. Including me. And it is clear to me, after a week of coughing my lungs out and huddling under the covers, that this is a deadly serious illness.
This disease is going to kill a bunch of people before the flu season ends.
I'm nearly 60, and in fairly good health. But I don't know if I'd have survived, had I been 10 years older. I went earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1071638340257116942003-12-16T21:17:00.000-08:002003-12-16T21:20:12.966-08:00"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
- Albert EinsteinJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1069489500447163922003-11-22T00:24:00.000-08:002003-11-22T00:25:39.356-08:00"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
-- H.L. Mencken
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1068777971065874552003-11-13T18:45:00.000-08:002003-11-13T18:46:38.873-08:00"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied."
- Rudyard Kipling
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1067921249630755982003-11-03T20:44:00.000-08:002003-11-03T20:47:44.483-08:00"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
--William FaulknerJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1067216486000904782003-10-26T17:01:00.000-08:002003-10-26T17:01:30.780-08:00Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1064817184851446662003-09-28T23:30:00.000-07:002003-09-28T23:33:30.840-07:00Lower Lake, CA, US
County: Lake County
Location: 38:54:40N 122:36:37W
Population (1990): 1217
Elevation: 1372 feet
Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1064513220558543562003-09-25T11:07:00.000-07:002003-09-25T11:07:00.610-07:00Is the stock market bubble being reinflated?
Vernon Smith, who won the 2002 Nobel Price for economics, has run trading experiments where participants consistently produced a bubble.
The funny thing is that after the first bubble, participants produce another bubble and crash. How come? Because they thought they would be able to cash out before the crash happened the second time around. In earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1064199141297218482003-09-21T19:52:00.000-07:002003-09-21T19:52:21.580-07:00T e c h n o \ c u l t u r e.... A stunning writer, who writes mainly about technology
"Sir: In your otherwise beautiful poem 'The Vision of Sin' there is a verse which reads -- 'Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.' It must be manifest that if this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill... I would suggest that in the next edition of your poem you have it earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1063521268656730532003-09-13T23:34:00.000-07:002003-09-13T23:34:28.580-07:00 The cheap way to the stars - by escalator.
The Guardian reports scientists are meeting to discuss the design of a space elevator.
Long ago I read Arthur C. Clarke's description of a space elevator. Ever since, I've been wondering how long before construction would get underway. I hope I live long enough to see it. Wonderful stuff.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1063297177375350432003-09-11T09:19:00.000-07:002003-09-11T09:31:10.330-07:00"55 plus Americans are happier today than ever before. "
A recent survey of older Amercians says those who are happier in old age tend to:
- socialize with friends
- spend a romantic evening with a spouse or partner
- exercise or play sports
- do something educational or cultural
- make love
All at once?
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1063295385181087262003-09-11T08:49:00.000-07:002003-09-11T08:49:45.043-07:0020 Ways to Pick the City That's Best for You
Since it appears that I'm retired, whether I like it or not, I've been looking at retirement communities. It's slowly percolating into my brain that I am not tied to any one place any more.
The kids are gone and my needs are few. A community, a book store, an internet connection, a pleasant climate, clean air, good water, a decent library and earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1063169681772184402003-09-09T21:54:00.000-07:002003-09-09T21:54:41.770-07:00Rebuilding America's Defenses in a Unipolar World - Project for the New American CenturyJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1063057964397867312003-09-08T14:52:00.000-07:002003-09-08T15:00:39.630-07:00 The words of the President of the US to the Secretray General of the UN on July 20, 2003, as reported by the the Whitehouse:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the speech that I gave was cleared by the CIA. And, look, the thing that's important to realize is that we're constantly gathering data. Subsequent to the speech, the CIA had some doubts. But when I gave the -- when they talked about the speech and Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062993170014993922003-09-07T20:52:00.000-07:002003-09-07T20:52:49.916-07:00The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
Proverbs 29:7Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062665856462606362003-09-04T01:57:00.000-07:002003-09-04T01:57:36.450-07:00A Brookings Institution Study showing why we are in deep financial doo-dooearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062482251316125042003-09-01T22:57:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:57:31.306-07:00NathanNewman.org - News and Views A great pro-labor blog!
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062482098028910132003-09-01T22:54:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:54:58.020-07:00
Why Moving to India Won't Really Help IT
Outsourcing jobs to India is really age discrimination. Great column by Robert X. Cringley
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062482020339108042003-09-01T22:53:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:53:40.350-07:00A proposal: How to stop spamearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1062271215254132032003-08-30T12:20:00.000-07:002003-08-30T12:20:15.243-07:00Mercury News | 08/29/2003 | Canada's Internet pharmacies hurting from industry steps to halt U.S. sales: "Canada's Internet pharmacies hurting from industry steps to halt U.S. sales"
Another reason it's a very bad idea to be sick, elderly, or poor in the U.S. The message seems to be, 'If you don't like being poor, sick or elderly then do something about it... Go get your own damn oil well.'earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-106198184608406642003-08-27T03:57:00.000-07:002003-08-27T03:57:25.916-07:00Identify the exchange
I'm currently co-authoring a book. I spent today exchanging emails with our publisher. He tells me that his new writers have two main problems:
1. They don't stick to the book's premise.
2. They don't think of the reader's needs.
The publisher tells me, "Identify the exchange!"
So, I think, what is the exchange between myself and a reader?
Ideally I give -- earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-106197958677106622003-08-27T03:19:00.000-07:002003-08-27T03:19:46.753-07:00From the Warsaw Business Journal: Zbigniew Piekarski on why the bull run is about to end.:
"I live in the center of Warsaw. The two nearest supermarkets are Sezam and Albert. I stopped shopping in Sezam because they effect sporadic stock-taking during working hours, run out of popular items, and have a fresh bread oven in the corner that hasn't been used for more than nine months... "earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061871318879317062003-08-25T21:15:00.000-07:002003-08-25T21:50:07.836-07:00Dean for America: Home
Is it time to get involved?
The fiscal, political, and security policies of the bush-crony administration are likely to destroy the nation. Sure, the 'crony bunch' will get rich, but in exchange they will leave our children living in a hated nation with no health care, insitutionalized poverty, few allies, and perpetual war.
In the process they get to destroy socialearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061870446869272652003-08-25T21:00:00.000-07:002003-08-25T21:00:46.713-07:00Howard Dean
"Since the time of Thomas Paine and John Adams, our founders implored that we were not to be the new Rome. We are not to conquer and suppress other nations to submit to our will. ... We must rejoin the world community. America is far stronger as the moral and military leader of the world than we will ever be by relying solely on military power. ... [T]here is a fundamental differenceearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061803190283725252003-08-25T02:19:00.000-07:002003-08-25T02:49:04.016-07:00Insomnia
For some reason I have been unable to sleep for the last few nights. I go to bed around 11, lie there wide awake, and finally get up and read, or browse the web.
The up-side is that I find lots of interesting web sites, and catch up on my reading.
The down-side is that my sleep schedule puts me completely out of whack with the rest of the world.
I've noticed for years that my 'earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061802728525244142003-08-25T02:12:00.000-07:002003-08-25T02:12:08.533-07:00New Google Toolbar
I've just upgraded to the new google toolbar, and it is neat! Especially the little 'blog' button that allows me to link any web page directly into the blog. For example,Should inflation be worrying us now? - AME Info FN
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061761824089622952003-08-24T14:50:00.000-07:002003-08-24T14:50:24.086-07:00 Bullish news for red wine
Lake County is rapidly filling with vineyards and wineries. This research can only mean more demand for red wine. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Clue to elixir of life: "Clue to elixir of life"earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061726820192714272003-08-24T05:07:00.000-07:002003-08-24T05:07:00.180-07:00Rebuilding Iraq
An Op-Ed piece in the New York Times. If what they say about current conditions is true, we are in big, big trouble. A Six-Month Revival Plan for Iraqearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1061726627456528972003-08-24T05:03:00.000-07:002003-08-24T05:03:47.433-07:00Thomas Friedman writing on why the US needs to dedicate money, people, and will to the rebuilding of Iraq. Immediately. Fighting 'The Big One'earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1060066973667444032003-08-05T00:02:00.000-07:002003-08-05T00:02:53.546-07:00Lovely weather
70's and low 80's the last couple days. Positively balmy.
The goats, plants, cats and dogs are doing well.
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1058726375956639792003-07-20T11:39:00.000-07:002003-07-20T11:39:35.820-07:00
"This is madness. We do not need this chemical. We do need the ozone layer. How stupid can people be?"Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1058198013100539912003-07-14T08:53:00.000-07:002003-07-14T08:55:19.793-07:00WMD 404 page
Anthony Cox describes how his spoof error page turned into a 'Google bomb' for weapons of mass destruction
How to see the WMD 404 error page, until google fixes it's site...
1) Go to Google.com
2) type in (but don't hit return): "weapons of mass destruction"
3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, instead of the normal "Google
search" button
4) read what appears to be a earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1058160355381043092003-07-13T22:25:00.000-07:002003-07-13T22:25:55.300-07:00Weapons of Mass DestructionJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1058159205651217412003-07-13T22:06:00.000-07:002003-07-13T22:06:45.663-07:00"A great lie has been told. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq never posed any threat.
Inspections worked. The fact is that the United Nations disarmed Iraq. The war was never about getting
rid of weapons of mass destruction. It was about getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He lied to send us to war.
His lie caused the death of over 130 American soldiers and thousands of Iraqis. HeJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1057739530916539642003-07-09T01:32:00.000-07:002003-07-09T01:32:10.833-07:00Pericles?
How about Ralph Nader? "Turn on to politics or politics will turn on you."earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-1057739460445293602003-07-09T01:31:00.000-07:002003-07-09T01:31:00.370-07:00Google blew it.
The transition to the new system is too confusing.
Sorry, but they fucked up. One step too many, one option too many. Java must be turned on. Etc, etc, etc...
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-958473672003-06-19T19:02:00.000-07:002003-06-19T19:02:22.080-07:00Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
- PericlesJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-953364532003-06-05T11:06:00.000-07:002003-06-06T08:23:31.000-07:00Martha's Crimes
Martha Stewart was indicted two days ago.
Ken Lay was not indicted two days ago.
Bernie Ebbert was not indicted two days ago.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-953199452003-06-05T00:08:00.000-07:002003-06-06T08:25:01.000-07:00Martha and Kenny Boy
Kenny Boy was one of Dubya's greatest fund raisers.
The dogg predicts:
Martha will go to jail.
Kenny Boy will go to Aspen.
earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-953177962003-06-04T22:36:00.000-07:002003-06-04T22:36:21.543-07:00 "Why, of course the people don't want war...But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-952698452003-06-03T21:43:00.000-07:002003-06-03T21:48:21.000-07:00The Gentrification of Lake County
This week I went in for my annual eye exam. During the exam the doctor and I were talking about coffee shops in Lake County. We both liketo spend a half hour in a coffee shop, reading the newspaper, before going to work. I realized that there are really only four coffee shops in the county. I mentioned a new one in a nearby town, and said, "They've got good earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-952688142003-06-03T21:13:00.000-07:002003-06-03T21:21:15.000-07:00Lunch with former colleagues
Just had lunch with several people I used to work with. For the first half-hour the conversation was about house prices, the stock market, and retirement accounts. One man is buying a house in Portland, so his daughter can live there while she goes to school. "I get all that equity..." he said. Another hopes the stocks in his 401K will triple within the next two earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-951655592003-06-01T15:09:00.000-07:002003-06-01T15:16:28.000-07:00email to Tom Friedman regarding his column of June 1, 2003:
"when a hegemonic power, such as America, emerges in the global system other countries will naturally gang up against it."
This didn't happen to us, because America was viewed as a benign power.
American actions and, perhaps more importantly, American words have shattered the benign image. America is now seen as a military threat, Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-951267592003-05-31T11:13:00.000-07:002003-05-31T11:15:17.000-07:00Homeland Security: Getting Serious?
Attorney General Ashcroft is visiting an elementary school. After the typical civics presentation, he announces, "All right, boys and girls, you can all ask me questions now."
A young boy named Bobby raises his hand and says, "I have three questions:
1. How did Bush win the election with fewer votes than Gore?
2. Why are you using the USA Patriot Act to earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-951087962003-05-30T21:18:00.000-07:002003-05-30T21:22:35.000-07:00Learning to write
The last few weeks I've been teaching myself to write 'mass market' non-fiction.
I used to be a technical writer in Silicon Valley. I wrote over 300 technical manuals on networks, network protocols, network analysis tools, and UNIX installations.
Now, I'm writing a non-fiction book on documentaries. Writing for a general audience is hugely different than technical writing.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-949102062003-05-26T14:04:00.000-07:002003-05-26T14:07:25.000-07:00Rent a Segway in Paris
A SLATE article about riding Segway in Paris. Soon, you will be able to rent them for $8.
Another reason to go to Paris!
Other articles about Segway in France:
A Forbes article about Segway in Paris.
The French city of Besancon has been using them since January, 2003.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-948610532003-05-25T07:57:00.000-07:002003-05-26T14:09:18.000-07:00Paul Krugman is worried about economic quagmire and deflation.
Closer to home, I've got my own economic quagmire. Having been out of work for nearly two years now. The up side is that I have lots of time to write, read, walk, visit friends and take photographs. The downside is no new purchases. No house repair, computer, travel, car, clothing... and i'm one of the lucky ones. Everyone I know earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-948161292003-05-23T21:49:00.000-07:002003-05-24T17:42:12.000-07:00You'll make more money by selling advice than by following it.
-Steve ForbesJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-947215062003-05-21T21:41:00.000-07:002003-05-21T21:41:36.710-07:00 Gatsby believed in the green light, in the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And then one fine morning----
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott FitzgeraldJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-946926002003-05-21T09:37:00.000-07:002003-05-21T21:53:15.000-07:00The War against American Tech Workers
The H1B visa program imports cheap foreign engineers and programmers to replace American workers. And, H1B workers pay no taxes! No social secuity, payroll, income, medicare, or income taxes. None. (To all my friends in Silicon Valley, ask one of your H1B colleagues for a look at his or her pay stub.)
How bad is it? The Department of labor numbers forearnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-945441502003-05-18T11:38:00.000-07:002003-05-18T11:38:38.946-07:00Back to blogging after two weeks of fooling with wifi antennas and amplifiers. I'm still working on a problem that prevents access from two machines.
Went to see Matrix Reloaded. A little to talky compared to the first version. Seems almost as if they're laying in storylines for a line of sequels or action figures. Several minor characters are introduced. I found them less interesting than earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-944703572003-05-16T14:12:00.000-07:002003-05-16T14:13:12.000-07:00 Economist's take on Euro vs. DollarJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-941067282003-05-10T08:24:00.000-07:002003-05-10T08:24:57.023-07:00Lunar Eclipse CalculatorJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-937829862003-05-04T22:01:00.000-07:002003-05-14T17:29:25.000-07:00Paleo-conservative take on Euro vs Dollar US Achilles heelJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-937255412003-05-03T17:30:00.000-07:002003-05-03T17:32:25.000-07:00Thoughtout the world May 1 is labor day. In to the US it is historically law day.
This year it is to become loyalty day White House ProclamationJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-935189432003-04-30T00:51:00.000-07:002003-04-30T00:51:19.446-07:00Pre-empting Pre-emption
The disintegration of the nuclear order.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-934923852003-04-29T15:24:00.000-07:002003-04-29T15:26:30.000-07:00Local dog makes good.
Fame calls for Dosha! Can a movie deal be far behind? Let's hope Dosha's owner gets a good agent before signing anything.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-933515102003-04-27T11:11:00.000-07:002003-04-27T11:11:42.290-07:00Taking an RV around the world
An introduction,and a few emails from a guy who put a camper shell on an old dodge truck, and drove it around the world. earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-932270122003-04-25T00:00:00.000-07:002003-04-25T00:09:06.000-07:00San Francisco Chronicle fires reporter for protesting
The San Francisco Chronicle has fired technology columnist Henry Norr who was arrested while taking part in an anti-war rally last month. The day after the protest, his column on computers and technology was pulled. He was suspended for a month. And now he has been officially fired.
Norr joins a growing number of journalists who have lost earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093417.post-931670992003-04-24T01:56:00.000-07:002003-04-24T02:02:22.000-07:00Cookin' with google
Type in a couple ingredients and google will search for recipies.
I entered the first three things i found in the fridge, (blackberries, peas, and ham) and google found a fairly decent salad. I love this stuff.earnesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16440159766212938877noreply@blogger.com