Shoppers Not Totally Insane

The big “Black Friday” weekend went off mostly with a whimper. The only stampedes of shoppers were at places like Wal-Mart and other discount stores. While some folks did fight over choice popular merchandise, over all the mood was restrained. Wise choice.
This is the time to be buying necessities and durable goods. This will be [...]

Jungle Stomping

Back when I first enlisted in the US Army (1979), I had been at my first assigned unit for only a few weeks when I found out a few of us were scheduled to make a trip to Panama for Jungle School. We weren’t authorized jungle boots as an issue item, and couldn’t wear them [...]

Questions of Legitimacy

There seems to be an awful lot of noise lately, attempting to silence dissent, about how we must reconcile ourselves to legitimate government. “So-n-so won the election and that’s that!” No, it isn’t. Merely raising the issue brings along whole ship-loads of baggage.
If you want to suggest “might makes right,” then be prepared for a [...]

Restoring the eMac

For a few months while my current system was down, I was forced to use the eMac. After a time exploring how it worked and making it as much like Linux as I could, it got old. I really don’t much care for the Zen of Mac. So I installed SUSE, but that wasn’t too [...]

More Trail Finding

The biblical perspective of natural resource use says people are the reason for Creation, and the most important part of it. That gives their needs precedence over just about everything else. That’s not the same as human whims and wishes. Our duty to the Creator is to keep in mind we are just borrowing His [...]

Trail Finding

One of the numerous personality inventories I took when learning psychology and counseling left me with the label of “trailblazer.” There wasn’t room in the inventory to note that’s only an approximation. I don’t cut many paths through raw wilderness, but tend to rediscover old trails long neglected.
Here in Central Oklahoma, there is precious little [...]

Not a Garden Party

But I did remenisce with my old friends. I left a little early on my daily bicycle trek, and chose a route which took me past an old friend’s house. The last institutional church where I was a member did have some fine people there, even if the organization itself is corrupt. This fellow is [...]

Welcome to My World

I’m pretty sure the malady we call “Attention Deficit Disorder” (ADD) is not what mainstream medicine believes it to be. Because medical science currently has distinct channels in which it is forced to operate, a great deal of useful data is excluded. In our pursuit of purely objective knowledge, a whole range of included symptoms [...]

Twighlight of Civilization

I suppose the name of Julie Amero won’t be long or widely remembered.
A substitute school teacher in some insignificant school district, she was victim of unsecured computers. The monitor on the system in her classroom assignment for the day was attached to a computer which was criminally unsecured. The sieve that is “security” on a [...]

Forget Opera

For the longest time I really liked the Opera web browser. It is quicker to load than any other full functioning browser, and processes JScript faster than anything else. It’s got a very good collection of presets for popular email services in the mail client. There are plenty of other fine features too numerous to [...]