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  • Getting Organized

    “Two minutes, get your sh*t together.” – George Carlin (on what if there were a two minute warning in life.) I have so many aspects to my life, and only a portion of them are organized. My desk is a mess, my house is a mess, and although I do tend to get things done, Continue reading

  • For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.

    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “We all want Continue reading

  • Message In A Bottle

     “…Take me out to the black. Tell ’em I ain’t comin’ back. Burn the land And boil the sea. You can’t take the sky from me.” – Theme song from Firefly “The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” – Robert Heinlein “In Continue reading

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  • Rev up and write!

    “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” – Stephen King “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Continue reading

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  • Le voyage en France 2011: Chapitre 1

    Paris is always a good idea – The movie “Sabrina” America is my country and Paris is my hometown – Gertrude Stein If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable Continue reading

  • Christmas Island shipwreck inquest adjourned – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Christmas Island shipwreck inquest adjourned – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). A followup to my previous post on this news item. I highly recommend everyone read Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Great read, and interesting look into what it means to a person to be honorable. Continue reading

  • Surviving the Rip Tides

    “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It Continue reading

  • Fukushima Radioactivity Release Estimates Pt. 1

    Further information concerning the truth in the Fukushima accident. You can’t be distracted by the noise of misinformation. – James Daly http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13678627 Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa) now says 770,000 terabecquerels escaped into the atmosphere following the 11 March disaster – more than double its earlier estimate of 370,000 terabecquerels. Although the amount Continue reading

  • BBC News – German nuclear review throws up new problems

    Simple mathematics. P = (N + F + W + S) + I Where: P = power consumption. N = nuclear generated power. F = fossil fuel generated power. W = wind generated power. S = solar generated power. I = “imported” power. And this power’s source is an unknown, but probably cheapest possible. If Continue reading

  • Nuclear Energy Institute – Information on the Japan Earthquake and Reactors in That Region

    Hello folks. I have been wondering what the state of the Fukushima reactors is, and since the ADD afflicted American media has completely forgotten that there is even an island State named Japan I thought I’d try to find an update. I have noticed though that the concern for our safety due to release of Continue reading

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