Random Musings
Americans can be giving people. Some horrific event, like the Boston Marathon bombing, happens and large amounts of money are generated to help the victims. But how do you decide how to divide the money? Who makes that call? In this case, at least, it’s Kenneth Feinberg, professional arbitrator. He’s the man so many turn to [...]
The last few weeks have knocked me off my stride, and I now find myself facing a backlog of stuff. I’ll try to keep up on my posting, but I’ve made a conscious decision that this and Facebook just aren’t going to be as important as other things for awhile until I get caught up. [...]
There are a lot of things in life that one has to experience for yourself. Other people can try to describe for you what it feels like or how to do it, but ultimately until you try it, perhaps fail a little, and then get it right, you can’t really know what it is. Singing [...]
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My fence has been threatening to fall down, so now that the weather has decided to cooperate I’ve started to take it down, with the idea of putting up a new one. This last Saturday was supposed to be a day for significant progress on that project. Unfortunately I was wrong. The people who put [...]
A while back I complained about the proliferation of “Ag gag” bills across the country attempting to protect anyone in the meat production industry from whistleblowers and animal rights groups from filming what goes on in meat production facilities. Little did I know that Utah would be the first state to prosecute someone under such [...]
The other day my department at work held a “Mandatory Fun Day” at a local meeting facility. Before we began the fun part our boss’ boss held a brief meeting to inform us of some more changes. The department has become somewhat unbalanced (read that any way you like) in the last six months, and [...]
I haven’t concerned myself with the whole “are boys or girls better” competition since grade school–if even then. I never got involved in the “boy fleas/girl fleas” struggle, hosing myself down with pretend “girl flea spray” and all that. But lately, when I look around, I can’t help but think, “I’m glad I’m a guy.” [...]
Well, as of tonight we have two cub scouts in our household. We had our pack meeting, and Walter moved up to Webelos, and Richard joined the Wolf den. And since we’re the Bear den leaders, we won’t be seeing either of them on Tuesday night anymore. It’ll be strange, as they’ve both been more [...]
We hear a lot of talk about personal information and privacy. A great many people are concerned (rightly, in my opinion) about who has their information and what they can do with it. Other people either ignorantly or voluntarily give away a lot of personal information about themselves. For better or worse, there is a [...]
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Ah, where would my life be without Internet memes? Certainly I’d have less fodder for blog posts. Last week when the prime suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were revealed there was a spate of meme pics encouraging us all to “Remain calm and avoid islamophobia”. A noble sentiment to be sure. For all their apparent [...]
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