In a post completely unrelated to those before, I felt compelled to write here about something I touched on a couple months ago, namely how people as they grow older often change in ways they don’t expect, and how a lack of hope does not mean utter hopelessness. Like many people, I’ve faced a good [...]
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Green Shoots
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, Personal Insights, tagged America, banana, bandwagon, beat, Blue Ball, Blue Devil, box, bruise, bull, Burpee, business, cardboard, caveat emptor, change, chemical, chlorophyll, claim, company, cost, country, crush, died, disgust, display, dollar, drop, E. coli, economist, economy, elbow grease, enforcement, exotic, family, fertilizer, fly, food, fresh, frost, funds, fungicide, garden, genetic engineer, government, Green, ground, Gurney, heirloom, herbicide, honor system, hybrid, Ides of March, ill, import, incident, investment, label, law, layover, lettuce, mango, market, mascot, order, organic, oversight, patch, pathogen, pesticide, plan, plane, plant, plate, plenty, poke, politics, popular, price, produce, regulation, rubbish, rule, season, seed, shoot, shovel, sick, soil, spinach, spray, spring, stipulation, store, summer, sun, supermarket, supplier, supply, Team Blue, test, tomato, variety, vegetable, Victory Garden, wam, Washington, Word War II, WWII on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The phrase used by optimistic economists for the last year is starting to come to life. But I’m not going to talk about the economy, or politics, or even Team Blue (which, by the way, needs a mascot, I think … but Blue Devils is taken and I don’t think Blue Balls would go over [...]
Hoist the Flag
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abandon, action, America, American Dream, animal, basement, Bernie, black, blood, booty, build, burn, business, bust, call to arms, car, caution, Charles, cheat, chest, city on a hill, claim, company, conclusion, conscientious object, consequence, construction, context, corporation, credit, cry, damage, Darwin, desire, dollar, drought, drywall, employer, evolution, fact, family, fear, fellow, fight, flag, flip, flood, floor, freedom, frost, future, garden, generous, global, goodness, government, grace, grade school, H. L., hoist, homeless, House, hungry, hurricane, insurance, internet, investment, job, joist, liberty, lie, life, lose, Madoff, man, meaning, Mencken, money, mortgage, need, normal, nothing, pacifism, pay, payment, payoff, pirate, planet, plunder, policy, profit, rally, read, reality, risk, sales, see, sentiment, slit, society, something, spoils, stand, steal, storm surge, structural integrity, structure, survival, sword, tax, tempt, theory, throat, treasure, treatise, trust, unemployed, useless, utopia, value, victor, Wall Street, wallboard, want, war, warning, wave, weed, wind, word, work, worthless on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want to throw caution [...]
Nikola’s Newest Incarnation
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged 3G, AC, acceleration, air-conditioning, amenities, American, automobile, automotive, battery, capacity, car, charge, connectivity, conversion, convertible, cruise control, delivery, dream, electric, family, hatchback, hood, horsepower, hybrid, impressive, life span, maintenance, mileage, Model S, MPG, mph, Nikola Tesla, performance, power connector, power doors, power windows, price, product, progress, pun, roadster, rpm, seat, sedan, Signature, speed, Sport, sports car, stereo, suspension, tech, technology, Tesla Motors, touchscreen, trunk, upstart, vehicle, Volkwagen on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I titled this post Nikola’s Newest Incarnation to tip my hat toward old Nikola Tesla, who changed all our lives, and to pull out a terrible pun. See, this is about the upstart automobile manufacturer Tesla Motors (hence the Nikola). And since they build cars… Incarnation = in”car”nation. Get it? (I told you it was [...]
Father Used to Know Best
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged advertising, aid, babysitter, background, bills, card, child, child care, Christmas, clothing, club, commercialization, couch, coverage, dental, dinner, dollar, expendable, expensive, family, father, Father's Day, federal, flowers, food, fool, garage, gender, gift, golf, goofy, grill, holiday, household, hungry, idiot, income, indicator, internet, jewelry, law, lawnmower, leafblower, local, lust, maintanence, marginalize, maternal, medical, Memorial Day, men, money, mortgage, mother, Mother's Day, movies, newspaper, offspring, optometry, parent, paternal, paycheck, quaint, race, regulation, rent, repair, restriction, role, rude, school, selfish, shoes, single father, single mother, society, socks, stamps, state, subsidy, summer, supplement, supplies, tax, television, tie, transport, utility, vacation, vehicle, women, work, wrench on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After visiting a friend’s blog, I discovered that I had completely forgotten Mother’s Day. I’m not a mother myself, and have no mother or maternal relations, so I often forget. But I think fathers are getting a raw deal. Mother’s Day gets splashed all over the television, newspapers, and internet advertising like a second Christmas. [...]
Blood Money
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged blood, catch-22, civilization, family, injury, Ralph Waldo Emerson, work on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I work for a living, earn my own way in this world, and sometimes it comes with a price. Given, every job makes its demands, forces us to spend hours of our days for money to spend in return. But more than hours, days, weeks, months, years, jobs often demand a blood sacrifice. For some it may [...]
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