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OK Boomer – Thoughts on staying home
Twenty years ago we passed through what could have been a global crisis, AKA Y2K, with hardly a bump in the road. For a number of years leading up to 2000 people were warned about what could happen, lights going out, financial systems crashing, chaos. When the date passed and little to nothing happened the…
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and a river runs through it
I expect sleep to remain elusive for a few more days. It is 3:30 am as I pen these lines after repeatedly dozing for an hour or less at a time. So be it. In trying to synthesize a series of jumbled impressions from the day it is of the flow of history and the…
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Haute Cuisine
Today we landed in Budapest. We are 7 hours earlier than our time zone, trying to get ready for bed at local time 10 PM and home time of 1PM. We travelled and layed over about 11 hours. So even if we did spend much of it sitting on our butts we’re tired. Our butts…
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On our way to Vienna, Budapest, and Prague
Last stop before we embark for the tour. From time to time we complain about the horrendous traffic in Madison, the beltline, fighting students and cars during Badger football games, sitting at crosswalks between classes, the annoying politeness of Wisconsin drivers at intersections (my New York and Chicago sensibilities taught me that the right of…
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Amazing Grace – Instrumental Descant
Over the last 40 years I’ve written descants for hymns from time to time. I’ll post them here. They are free for non-commercial use. Enjoy. If you do use them (usually it will be in church) let me know when and where. If you like them feel free to buy me a cup of coffee…
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A document to help with installing Zoom
I started using Zoom with some groups this month and many were nervous about this new technology. I wrote up a quick and dirty document to help them. One caveat though. I don’t have an iPhone so that page is real short! I’ll fill it out more when I get my hands on one!
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WordPress Exploit
This weekend during ARRL Field Day I was posting to Twitter, Facebook and the club website. Toward the end of the day I was ready to upload some pictures to the gallery so I tried to log in to the site. I was told that because I had logged in too many times and failed…
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Can’t we all just get along: Reflections on 50/50 political returns
My Church and society professor in Seminary made an interesting observation about Jerusalem. Why would He have placed the most sacred places of three of the world’s major religions so close together if He didn’t want us to learn to live with one another? Of course, that is not the reaction we are most…
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Elon’s 8
In a recent interview Elon Musk listed the 8 books that were most influential for his life. I list them here as much for me as for anyone who happens on this post. This is my new reading list. Not that I will be building rockets to Mars but they certainly will bolster my geek…