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Category Archives: Change
A kindred spirit can be revealed in odd ways
Like a list of Hotel gripes from a frequent flyer I have spent a fair amount of time in hotels And, when I read this, I knew the author and I were very much alike. 1. Bad bedside reading lights. … Continue reading
The glaciers are melting, the glaciers are melting!
Himalayan glaciers have lost no ice in the past 10 years Huh? Some previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains had predicted up to 50 billion tons of melting ice annually, said Wahr, who is also a … Continue reading
This is a Kodak moment
Kodak didn’t see coming On Thursday, Kodak said that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, a move that will separate the struggling company from the camera business it was founded to pursue. Instead, … Continue reading
Convergence was once just a prediction
Then it became a trend On Tuesday … Google announced that people who own devices powered by the latest version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, can now use Chrome to surf the Web. Previously, people who owned such Android … Continue reading
There’s something to be said for old school
In a world of paperless bills, eBooks, and iPads The plain, old paper and pencil still rule The surging smartphone has succeeded in rendering many other gadgets obsolete. The alarm clock? Who needs one? The GPS navigation system? Why pay … Continue reading
It’s not the electricity we use
It’s the stuff electricity makes go. Back in the day, some folks didn’t like electricity. They didn’t want that new-fangled technology. Gas, wood, and coal worked perfectly fine. Lit the house. Cooked the food. Kept us warm. And there’s still … Continue reading
Don’t confuse us with facts!
OK, facts are not confusing. And, they’re not actually stubborn, either. In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the “pollutant” carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, … Continue reading
Casual Fridays? Beards?
Are we in Fantasyland? No, Snow White‘s seven dwarfs won’t need to worry about getting upstaged by bearded Disney theme park employees any time soon. But the so-called “Disney Look” – a legendarily strict dress code that dates from Disneyland‘s … Continue reading
11 years and 9 months ago?
I wonder if they knew? Or even suspected? In the 11 years and 9 months since the first geocache was placed, there is single date on which only a small fraction of geocachers have ever logged a cache. We suspect … Continue reading
Where you are on the field
Calls for specific behaviors and skill sets Near the sidelines, the receiver has to be able to drag that trailing foot and keep it inbounds. Or a great effort to catch the ball is all for naught. On the other … Continue reading