Odds and Ends Rattling Around of Late

A Lot of Us are Snowed in Now – It’s a Good Time for Some Assorted Observations Supreme Court on Vaccination Mandates The current Supreme Court looks increasingly less supreme with every ruling. I keep thinking it cannot get worse, but they continue to raise the ante. At least …
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People are Confused About COVID Guidance?

Really, Folks? The Guidance Has Been Pretty Consistent. Changes Match the Changing Virus The Snivel We Hear OK, snivel is admittedly a snarky word to start off this conversation, but it really does seem to me that a lot of people, the media in particular, is regularly crying out that …
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About Birthdays

Birthdays are Benchmarks of Life, But in Very Different Ways Over the Years Ah, Birthdays We have a couple of birthdays in our home about now, only 3 weeks apart. That got me to thinking about birthdays. Given the numbers in our case, we are thinking of converting to …
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The King is Dead! Long Live the King!

This Week the Blackberry Died – A Lesson for Everyone Remember the Blackberry? By the time you read this, any Blackberry phones out in the world using the Blackberry operating system will have died a quiet and ignoble death. Effective January 5, Blackberry pulled the plug. They still have a …
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What Would You Put in a Time Capsule?

The History of These is Fascinating Why Do These Things? They seem to have some popularity throughout the ages. One could even say they are… timeless. Time capsules have been in the news lately. Not one, but two were found under a statue of Robert E. Lee that was recently …
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Let Us Reflect in Wonder & Hope for the James Webb Space Telescope

“We’ve Never Done Anything Like Any of This” – A Project Engineer Son of Hubble The Hubble Telescope has been the most amazing, gratifying, useful thing of modern science. Off to a rough start with lenses imprecisely ground (an error resulting in one part of the team using meters, the …
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