Stuff You Gotta Know!
This could be my miscellaneous category, except you really gotta know this stuff!
Friday, January 09, 2004
People Over 25 Should be Dead!
I got this message by email the other day. I can sure identify with it. Thought I’d pass it along…
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003
The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant
This parable by John Godfrey Saxe is familiar to all, I’m sure. I stumbled across it the other day, and while familiar, I thought it would be fun to remind you of it here!
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
America’s first “road trip”
Last night, Lynne and I watched a fascinating Ken Burns documentary on PBS. It was about the first trans-continental crossing by automobile in 1903. It was about a piece of American history I had never heard about, and yet helped transform transportation and usher in the age of the automobile in the US.
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Thursday, September 25, 2003
Does spelling really matter?
Several people have sent me this message, so I thought I’d pass it along to you. I suspect the proposed hypothesis is true for fluent readers and for shorter words. See what I mean by clicking on “more”.
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Monday, September 22, 2003
I’m not a fan of cynicism and pessimism, but ...
Sometimes I visit [url=http://www.despair.com]http://www.despair.com[/url] for a laugh. This whole site is consistently cynical and pessimistic about business culture. Still, taken “tongue in cheek”, some of the web pages, and especially the “motivational” posters are a laugh. So, I often use this cynical site to cheer myself up!
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