Trying to take care of my little piece of the planet
I saw the video below, which started me reminiscing about a symbolic name that’s been part of my vocabulary for as long as I can remember: “Rube Goldberg”. In my rural ‘keep ‘er running’ world, a Rube Goldberg solution involves slapping together a complicated thing made up of available, but improbably connected moving parts that [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Apologies up front for the frivolous title to this post. But it reflects the fact that for the second time in my life, I learned something from a funeral.
If you’ve read more than a couple of ‘Rants and Musings’ on this site, you may have figured out that I missed out on the spiritual gene [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Last Sunday, I took this photo.
Any resemblance to the author is deliberate, though pipe-smoking is ancient history.
But, fast forward until February 21st. This is just a quick post at bedtime after a drive back from the coast; a weekend that included a dress-up affair with my wife and some tree-felling with my friend Mark. Both [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I can’t guarantee that this news story is accurate, but if so (and I assume that it is since a lawsuit has been filed), I am experiencing a rare moment of speechlessness.
One thing is certainly true; like many other public school systems, the Lower Merion school district in Pennsylvania issued 1800 laptops to its [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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When I started all this a couple of years ago, I came clean with the concept that one purpose of this blog was simply to help me keep track of stuff. So after it took me a couple of hours this past snowy weekend to track down some orchard records of what varieties I planted [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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