Sunday afternoon I went to a nearby mall to buy my wife a new pair of tennis shoes. The poor shoes were in a pretty bad shape. When I got back, I found all our electric digital clocks blinking. Oh, Oh! That was a bad sign. It meant their was a power outage during my [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Currently Out of Service – Hardware Problems
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Computer Failure, Computing, Hardware, Power Outage, Technology on November 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Photograph of the Day: Early Autumn Pond
Posted in Photography, tagged Autumn, Colors, Foliage, Photographs, Ponds, Seasons, Woods on November 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Acceleration of Change
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Alvin Toffler, Cable TV, Change, Future Shock, Heidi Toffler, Internet, NBC, Technology, The Third Wave on November 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m 62 going into 63 next December. During these past six decades, I’ve seen an acceleration of change extremely difficult to cope with. I think it was Alvin Toffler who brought this subject up in one of his classical books. He called it “future shock.” Toffler’s shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception [...]
Photograph of the Day: Pillars of Time
Posted in Photography, tagged Egypt, History, Karnak, Photographs, Ruins on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Letter From a Turkey
Posted in Cartoons, tagged Cartoon, Family, Festivities, Food, Humor, Thanksgiving, Traditions, Turkeys on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Act of Giving Thanks
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Blessings, Canada, Festivities, Gratitude, Panama, Thanksgiving, United States on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a traditional day in the United States and Canada. It is called Thanksgiving Day. This special day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now [...]
Photograph of the Day: Lake Fall Leaves
Posted in Photography, tagged Autumn, Fall, Foliage, Lakes, Leaves, Nature, Photographs, Seasons on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joke: A Fainted Reporter
Posted in Jokes, Miscellaneous, tagged Cleaverness, Humor, Jokes, News, Newspapers, Reporter on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A car was involved in an accident in a street. As expected, a large crowd gathered. A newspaper reporter anxious to get his story could not get near the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly, “Let me through! Let me through! I am the son of the victim.” The crowd made way [...]
Photograph of the Day: Old Bridge
Posted in Photography, tagged Art, Bridge, Communications, Photographs, Woods on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Joke: Baseball and Classical Music
Posted in Jokes, tagged Baseball, Classical Music, Humor, Jokes, puns on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. There is an extensive section where the bass players don’t play for twenty minutes of so. One of them decided that, rather than stand around on stage looking bored and stupid, they’d all just file offstage during their tacit-time and hang out backstage, then return when [...]
