BERGER SOCK EXPERIMENT

With all the distraction of people reporting their recommendations on how to protect ourselves from terrorists in the future, it is important to stay focused on the important things:

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Continental: Complaints Led to Drop-'Doonesbury' Poll

because it created more controversy? Well, isn't that part of the point of a political cartoon??? you might replace it with "Agnes," "Get Fuzzy," "Pickles," "Zits," or something else. That is almost too funny for words. It is almost a charicature of the situation.

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that means you!

simplicity = brilliance

In my opinion, one of the most important hallmarks of intelligence is simplicity. My wife has quietly shown this quality on a couple of occasions:

1. always checks out our children's library books in batches of 10. No need to keep track of titles or different numbers. When it is time to return them, you only need to find 10.

2. Not as novel, but a few years back when setting up an email account, she just chose her full, common name, maggiebrandow. it is efficient because people who want to email her know her name. no need to keep track of whether it is first initial, last initial, coolgirl57, or anything else. obviously John Smith would have a tougher time with this approach.

learning stuff...

is very hard to do. Particularly when it concerns your own nature. I am reminded of this again today as I had to confront people. Anyone who knows me know that I hate confrontation, so I spent ~24 hours dreading the reaction to my confrontation, to be, of course, pleasantly surprised that the reaction was entirely benign. Will I ever learn, or is this the type of thing that requires deeper transformation. During my dreading, I thought, "well they MIGHT not react badly", but I KNEW they would.

How limited are our powers of rational thought, when you get down to it?

The Bike

Lance's Bike speaks up for itself. key quote "Listen, it IS about the bike. That's why they call it a BIKE race. If you prefer, I can arrange for you to WALK around France. But be forewarned: You don’t get to date hottie rock stars by walking around France."

National debt to likely to hit the ceiling in October

I can't imagine that the Bush campaign is thrilled at this prospect.

What's up?

I have had this blog up for, let me see, over two weeks, and no one has made comments. Hmmm... does that mean that no one is reading me yet? Or does everyone just agree in a moderate way that does not lead them to comment. I need to be more provocative.

Desperate for Bryant, Clippers Dump Two

Trying not to panic...

CNN.com - Saudis: Bin Laden associate surrenders - Jul 13, 2004

Am I the only one that thinks this is weird.

ESPN.com - NBA - Tomjanovich expresses desire to coach Kobe

I assume that I am not the only one who thinks that this report that Tomjanovich would really like to coach Kobe, but is communicating to him via his own agent and video, is not a good sign for the Lakers. Meanwhile the Clips had a meeting, the Nuggets had two meetings with him, at his house of course. You wouldn't want to be forced to travel to talk to the people who might offer you a contract over $100,000,000. I wouldn't either.

tea

I ran out of my standard green tea, and was forced to dig through my drawer, looking for something different. I found an unlabeled packet of tea. I have no idea what flavor it is, though it is pleasant enough. However, I feel like I am drinking potpourri.

sweetbreads

A guy with a million pennies is interesting, no doubt. However I love sweetbreads and most people just react by saying, yuck! So that is the kind of bet that I would like to make.

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I am a little surprised that my comment counter still reads '0'. Either no one is reading this, or millions are reading and just not commenting.

CA take note!

Kids in jail is an incredibly difficult subject. But, this gives me some hope that people will pay attention to alternate ways of dealing with juveniles in detention. I always try to remember, "they eventually get out."