If you could erase all the mistakes of your past... you would also erase all the wisdom of your present. Remember the lesson, not the disappointment.
Words
Invictus ~ William Ernest Henley,
I don't recall ever being so struck to the core by a poem... Invictus ~ William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not...
We are stardust…literally
Some think the seeds of life came from the Big Bang, but that misses a critical part of how the elements of life came to be.
Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Because I've been told I'm part Slovenian but know nothing about my homeland, any time I encounter a reference to Slovenia, I'm all over it. I recently found this picture of a Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I don't know where Ljubljana is, nor how to pronounce...
“The price of freedom is decision”
I'm reading a book by Edward de Bono titled, The Happiness Purpose. In it, he states something that I thought was counter-intuitive: [T]he price of freedom is decision. This didn't make sense to me. I can agree that without the ability to decide, there is no freedom,...
“Trump is a low-information voter who got elected president”
I was watching the May 12th edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, and Obama's former speech writer Jon Favreau was on and said this about Trump: Trump is a low-information voter who got elected president. ~ Jon Favreau, Former Barack Obama speechwriter Exactly right!...
What journalism really is…
This quote, misattributed to George Orwell, gets at the "nut" of the civic role and responsibility of real journalism. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. everything else is public relations. ~ George Orwell (misattributed) The quote...
Rep. Chris Collins admits not reading AHCA bill before voting for it
"Chris Collins admits he didnât read health care bill." Rep. Chris Collins told CNN that he didnât read the entire Republican health care bill that the House passed Thursday. And then he told The Buffalo News that he was unaware of a key provision in the bill that...
Like alcohol and driving, it’s hard to mix cultures
(Below is blog post. It contains naive ramblings and no great conclusions---and lots of mizpellings and grammatical errors.) Why is it hard to mix cultures?...What is a culture? A culture is a collection of people who share certain beliefs and values and, to some...
xkcd’s advice on creating memorable passwords
xkcd comic offers some helpful advice on creating memorable but still difficult to hack/guess passwords. "Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."...
I didn’t know what I wanted to do…
The original quote from Diane Von Furstenberg is... âI didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.â â Diane Von Furstenberg But as a male of the species, I prefer this gender-neutral adaptation: âI didn't know what I wanted to do, but...