INTERESTING: Authors@Google: Dan Roam
Dan Roam visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures.”
INTERESTING: Authors@Google: Dan Roam
Monday, August 17, 2009
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INTERESTING: WWJD with health care
Monday, August 17, 2009http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/08/13/health-care-reform-wwjd/
Health Care Reform: WWJD?
Posted by Michael F. Cannon
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Sympathy and sentiment are wonderful but do not always work well as criteria for good policy.
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A very funny quick read. I think EVERYONE should read it.
ROFL, about J being a policy wonk.
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INTERESTING: Golf Official interferes with a race
Wednesday, August 12, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090810/D9A0ARLO0.html
Woods to be fined for criticism of rules official
Aug 10, 7:31 PM (ET)
By DOUG FERGUSON
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CHASKA, Minn. (AP) – Tiger Woods will be fined by the PGA Tour for his public criticism of a rules official after winning the Bridgestone Invitational, a tour official said Monday.
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With the championship on the line, the “official” says “hurry up”. And, Woods’ competition triple bogeys the 16th. Great time to mention it.
Now don’t get me wrong, Golf sucks. On TV, it’s even worse. (It’s covered like a skitzo. Jumping around, like a poor unfortunate with ADD.)
But this was just wrong.
It’s like … … joggling a Chess grandmaster during the end game. “Hey, Grand, did you know you only have 3 minutes to move!”
Argh!
And, Woods was sticking up for his competition.
CBS should demand a refund.
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INTERESTING: Exercise won’t impact weight
Tuesday, August 11, 2009http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-2,00.html
Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin
By John Cloud Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009
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The findings are important because the government and various medical organizations routinely prescribe more and more exercise for those who want to lose weight. In 2007 the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association issued new guidelines stating that “to lose weight … 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity may be necessary.” That’s 60 to 90 minutes on most days of the week, a level that not only is unrealistic for those of us trying to keep or find a job but also could easily produce, on the basis of Church’s data, ravenous compensatory eating.
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My family roots are heavy people. I’ve struggled with my weight for decades. I’ve gotten the exercise bug. I’ve eaten “healthy”.
Other than my thirty day “survival training” with the USAF, I’ve never varied much in my weight. After starving for a month, I looked like a POW! Even walked past Frau, before she was Frau, in the airport.
Other than my year in “language skrool” again with the USAF where I gained 200#+ out of frustration, which I lost when I went back to working a real job.
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll never be thin.
(I blame genetic programming. I read somewhere that fat people survived the Black Death in the middle ages better than thin. SO natural selection has made me fat?)
This demonstrates to me that we, least of all the gooferment, know anything about what they are purporting to be wisdom!
Argh!
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INTERESTING: traffic lights and global warming
Saturday, August 8, 2009Driving to a doctor’s appointment today, I missed EVERY light. Argh! Leaving aside the cop making an illegal left, that exasperates me. Almost as much as state gooferment cars. In missing every light, I had ample opportunity to observe that I was sitting at intersections, with traffic queueing up behind me, with no cross traffic. Argh!
If Stamford U can make a car that drives itself, can’t we have a “smart” traffic light?
No traffic to use the cycle, free it. Allow the direction with traffic to go. Seems obvious that a lot of gas is being wasted. No wonder folks speed up to get through on the yellow. Or even, on the edge of red. The technology is archaic.
But what would you expect from the gooferment. Roadways are essentially the same as the Fifties. Sure there’s more standardization, but that is not necessarily good. For example, NJ’s jughandles are a specific solution to the high density of traffic. But, that makes no sense in sparsely settle areas. But, even the jughandle has been eliminated or overwhelmed by volume.
See there is a fundamental flaw in the meme. Laws don’t prevent anything. Give me the good old Law of Gravity. You can’t break it if you tried. We need to privatize the roads. Like Professor Block has written. Then we’d get some innovation in roads. Wouldn’t you like to ride on the FedEx expressway or the UPS highway? Bet you the speed limit would high and enforced.
And, just maybe I wouldn’t miss every light.
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INTERESTING: Naked girls plow
Sunday, August 2, 2009http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE56M3G020090723
Naked girls plow fields for rain
Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:35pm EDT
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PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.
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This struck me as “interesting” on several levels.
(And, no their are no NSFW pics. Like you need a news story to find those on the inet? Please, DMML!)
First, the simple child-like faith that “gods” can be “embarrassed”. If they weren’t embarrassed by our congress critters, then naked girls would be comic relief.
Second, what is there thinking in terms of cause and effect? I suspect some “dirty old man” came up with this idea. If I had the comic skills of Jay Leno, this would be funny.
Third, how about some education and science for these folks? Never mind some clean water and water storage projects. This is a gooferment failure. Guess the national and state governments like the current state of affairs.
Fourth, it’s really good for the USA that so many countries put their women in unproductive situations. It’s like going into a fight with half your brains tied in a sack.
Fifth, how do these women feel? Hard to imagine. Dumb? Like cattle? Unappreciated?
Now these folks should have the freedom to believe whatever they want. But I wonder how they got to this level of thinking.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. It’s our own thinking that kills and enslaves us.
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INTERESTING: Sky Deck
Friday, July 17, 2009http://www.impactlab.com/2009/07/02/amazing-photos-of-the-ledge-at-the-sears-tower-skydeck/
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Amazing Photos Of The Ledge At The Sears Tower Skydeck
The Sears Tower Skydeck opens its lure for thrill-seekers Thursday. It’s called the Ledge and it gives the illusion of standing on air a few feet outside the building, 103 stories off the ground.
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Even the pics make me queasy!
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INTERESTING: Big … empty … boxes
Saturday, July 11, 2009http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D998DVD80&show_article=1
As retailers cut back cities confront ‘ghostboxes’
Jul 5 01:15 PM US/Eastern
By JAMES MacPHERSON
Associated Press Writer
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town.
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Interesting how the town bureaucrats treat the coomonwealth as their own little business. As if they had any investment in it. The taxpayers do; not them.
For those, that hate WalMart and the other big box stores, seems the way to keep them out is to have a “rip it out if you close” law.
Love it.
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INTERESTING: Self-pub author gets a real deal!
Saturday, July 11, 2009http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/11/indie-kindle-author-lands-book-deal/
Indie Kindle author lands book deal
by John Biggs on July 11, 2009
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And you though self-pubished books were all rubbish. Author Boyd Morrison sold two books, the first one called The Ark, to Simon & Schuster. Boyd uploaded and sold the books himself and raised awareness for his novels by being a member of Kindle Boards and generally self-promoting.
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Hope springs eternal!
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
LOL!
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INTERESTING: The Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams’
Monday, July 6, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/breakthrough_on_the_authorship_1.html
June 28, 2009
Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams’
By Jack Cashill
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Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition.
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I remember a day in High School. I don’t remember THE day. Or even the year. But it was in High School. We had extensive “reading lists” that we were expected to conquer. It wasn’t part of any course; it just was to “magically” get done. A relatively fast reader, I polished them off by the end of the sophomore summer.
I remember a class discussion (The Brother teaching monologued about the book. The students got few chances to put in a penny’s worth.) The good Brother concluded with a “knock your socks off” question. (He was known for these!)
“Do you REALLY believe that Jack Kennedy wrote this book? And, why do you believe that? Because it’s printed on the cover.”
That was the end of my naiveté in politicians!
Does anyone really believe that Obama wrote “Dreams”?
Sorry, doesn’t pass the sniff test.
IMHO.
And, if that’s a fraud, what else is?
Kennedy conceal his Addison’s and his whoring. As a Catholic, that’s a terrible scandal. (Like pro-abortion CINO republican and democratic “catholic” politicians!)
Just can’t trust any of them.
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