In doing some clean up of my home computer area, I found something that I had forgotten. It is a Power Point show of some 100 of the best military photographs from WWI to Vietnam. It circulated on the network where I was employed, but since they were pretty strict about personal use, I never had the courage to send it out to friends and family, lest I get a session with my boss. He ws death on wasting time on computers and insisted that all of the computers in his work area have the games d...

Last evening I visited an old friend on the web. My friend's name is the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The dictionary is always good for a laugh. But it also contains a wealth of social commentary. Moreover, though it was written around the turn of the century, many of the entries are appropos for today. In fact, there are many entries where you can't tell from the language, that they are almost a hundred years old. As an experiment in blogging, I will try to include a link ...

Last evening I visited an old friend on the web. My friend's name is the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The dictionary is always good for a laugh. But it also contains a wealth of social commentary. Moreover, though it was written around the turn of the century, many of the entries are appropos for today. In fact, there are many entries where you can't tell from the language, that they are almost a hundred years old. As an experiment in blogging, I will try to include a link ...

People today often look back over their lives and marvel at the amount of change they have seen. Typewriters to word processors. Adding machines to calculators. Piston airplanes to SST's. Black-and-while movies to Pixar. Ten inch TV's to maximum mega-screen digital dolby sound home enertainment. Sometimes the older of us even regret losing things of the past that have fond memories. Drive-in movies--victims of air conditioning and TV. Radio drama. Appliances that, if handled careful...

I finally retired last January. After flurry of activity to catch up with all the projects that I promised I would do as soon as I retired (How was I to know that my wife actually kept a list!) things have started to slow down and I have some time to take stock and do some reading and thinking that I never seemed to have time to do when I was doing my 40-plus hours every week. But reading and thinking are not very rewarding if there is no one to share discuss my ideas with. I tried a few...