I am always looking for a deal so I keep trying to find one on Amazon Grocery. The problem is that you can waste a lot of time trying to find something you would really buy. So I try the top sellers page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/grocery/ref=sv_gro_1/104-6217951-1925564 Notice the top sellers are baby items, coffee and diet pills…
Category: Interesting
In Meetings at the Hewlett Foundation
I like the title of the post because it almost sounds like I am important (which I am not). I am sitting in a meeting at the Hewlett Foundation. A year and some months ago I was at the Mellon Foundation. These meetings are interesting because they are filled with very intelligent people. These individuals…
Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
About a year ago my account’s office was broken into. The only thing the thieves took were the hard drives from the computers. That is scary for someone like me because the message is clear. These guys are smart enough to know that the value of all the personal information stored on those drives is…
Complaning About Perspective
I love NPR. I was listening to it last night on the way home and Will Bowen of Christ Church Unity was on talking about his no complaint for 21 days program and the purple bracelets he passes out to help people to remember not to complain. This morning on my way in they were…
Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s
I watched Dr Strangelove late at night a couple of weeks ago. It is dark humor and a movie in classical Kubrick style. The irony in the movie has so much to teach modern society. In a sick twist of fiction meeting fact we have to learn to love the bomb all over again. There…
For the People Who Don’t Live Here
My deepest sympathy goes out to all those who don’t make their home in Logan Utah. There are few places that offer as much in the way of the outdoors as here. This past weekend we spent out time at Bear Lake about an hour away. It is a rather large body of water which…
My wife is pretty cool
So I am downstairs helping my wife do cleaning and restoration after my tornado children destroy the downstairs family room again. She says to me, “don’t you want to buy a big TV for down here.” I say yeah.
Engineers are almost perfect but not quite.
Engineers are almost perfect. No really. When we are successful you get a pat on the back. When you fail you kill people. Here are some of the worst mistakes.
Things that go boom
When I was a boy scout ( a long time ago) someone tried to heat a can of beany weenies in the fire. In the infinite wisdom of a 13 year old they didn’t crack the lid. One explosion and a rain of beanie weenies later we were all ok. At another camp someone threw…
I get tired after I eat
Now I know why. I knew that it was logical to sleep after lunch.