My child will be graduating soon, and I won't be there. 
Some things one can only learn by living through them.
It's funny to listen to kids, really kids, still in college. So developed and yet so inexperienced. Trying to make a statement. Still. About their identity. And it reminds me of the Mark Twain joke a friend tells often, but I'll save it for...
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Some things one can only learn by living through them. It's funny to listen to kids, really kids, still in college. So developed and yet so inexperienced. Trying to make a statement. Still. About their identity. And it reminds me of the Mark Twain joke a friend tells often, but I'll save it for...
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I'm in touch with the Chair of the Math department where I went to college, who is a world class mathematician and a very nice man. We, in some sense, though at different stages of lfie, had the same mentor. Today's exercise (this week's) is to see if my sorry lawyer-ass self can still prove a problem based on this disucssion:
The statement is true....
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The statement is true....
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malloreigh:
yes it is. moss on rocks and layers of history. i like the colours.
I think that this place has its problems. What a shame. It was a good place when it first got going. Very friendly community. No longer. My mistake. I thought perhaps it was idiosyncratic. Folks were once quite nice.
Nancy Pelosi has inspired me to write down what I consider to be the top ten political gaffes during the time I have been following politics...
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Nancy Pelosi has inspired me to write down what I consider to be the top ten political gaffes during the time I have been following politics...
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I had a pretty bad day all in all. I've been extremely happy recently but today was a bit of a downer. Nothing truly serious. Just a disappointment.
On the bright side, we have a small investment partnership - an investment club - and we are beating the market (S&P 500) by about 21% over the last 12 month period. Were one able to do...
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On the bright side, we have a small investment partnership - an investment club - and we are beating the market (S&P 500) by about 21% over the last 12 month period. Were one able to do...
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Not much to say.....I've been away for a while.
HEAVY Post... 
On a plane over the holidays, I sat next to a couple from the Detroit area. He worked as an engineer for Ford Motor Company. German by birth, he drives a Volkswagen diesel. (During our conversations, he noted that clean diesel engines are the way to go for fuel economy.) He had many interesting things to say about cars and about the auto...
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On a plane over the holidays, I sat next to a couple from the Detroit area. He worked as an engineer for Ford Motor Company. German by birth, he drives a Volkswagen diesel. (During our conversations, he noted that clean diesel engines are the way to go for fuel economy.) He had many interesting things to say about cars and about the auto...
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Life in the slow lane
I'm looking around and seeing what the site is like.
I'm not sure what to think yet. I suppose it depends on the nature of the interaction.
I've been writing quite a bit lately, and the economy hasn't been good (one of the subjects on which I write). I wonder what others think. Generally, when I was young and in...
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I'm looking around and seeing what the site is like.
I'm not sure what to think yet. I suppose it depends on the nature of the interaction.
I've been writing quite a bit lately, and the economy hasn't been good (one of the subjects on which I write). I wonder what others think. Generally, when I was young and in...
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but I think it can be fixed. perhaps in the old-fashioned way, with paper and pencil.
Your pictures are gorgeous.