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  • Ok, let’s pretend you’ve built a time machine…

    If we could travel into the past, it’s mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn’t today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme… Continue reading

  • Naval Reactors Aptitude Test

    Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit 4 hours. Begin immediately. Work in numerical order. Equipment remaining from question #1 may prove useful in questions #3 and #6.                            1. Medicine.  You have been provided with a razor blade, a… Continue reading

  • iPad, youPad, we allPad for iPad!

    So, are we all excited about the impending introduction of Apple’s new iPad? I’ve very excited. I’m not necessarily going to buy one, but I am hoping that this will usher in the new era of tablet computing! I’ve been enamored of tablet computers for years, but the pricing has always been prohibitive. It seems… Continue reading

  • The Boy on the Bubble

    The Boy on the Bubble   Just what is it that defines a man? What makes him what and who he is? And even more, what is it that we perceive in a man? I suppose body language, quirks and traits can be quite revealing. Some people purport to be human lie detectors, able to… Continue reading

  • Wow! What a dream!

    I woke up this morning with a tremendous feeling of euphoria! Wow! What a dream I had last night. Here’s what I can remember of it… Like one of those newsreels from World War II, I saw a scan of our country. Jubilation in the streets, celebrations in progress. I heard cries of joy. Everyone in… Continue reading

  • Red White and Food

       Support wine sales in Tennessee retail food stores www.redwhiteandfood.com       Many Red White and Food members like you have been vocal about your support for wine in retail food stores. You’ve contacted your legislators, told your friends about the issue, and some have even written letters to the editor.Your support has made… Continue reading

  • Concerning my Wholly Whimsical Writings category.

    This is a place where I may put snippets of writing that I would like to share. It is really going to be more of a hodge podge, or potpourri of brain dumps and attempts at prose. I am certainly no writer, so if one considers commenting please be nice. But in that vein, I… Continue reading

  • The Cassini Mission (or how I learned to stop worrying and love our very own ‘Lord of the Rings’)

    The year is 1610; Gallileo Galilei trained his primitive telescope towards the sky, scouring the heavens for an object known from antiquity. Gallileo quickly espied the planet, but soon noticed something odd. He saw what appeared to be “handles”, or “ears” on each side of the planet. Concerning his discovery, Gallileo wrote the Duke of… Continue reading

  • Gonzo Journalism (a reprise)

    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. “Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl” (Rolling Stone #155, February 28, 1974); republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), p 49 I must say that if there were one thing that I did in my… Continue reading

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  • The Lore Master (Episode I – The beginning)

    lore (http://definr.com/lore) n : knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote: “early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend” [syn: traditional knowledge] master (http://definr.com/master) adj 1: highly skilled or proficient” “a master plumber”; “a master thief” [syn: master(a)] Continue reading

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