The next-door neighbor has a mature pecan tree with lots of nuts. I saw them raking up leaves in the front yard and wondered what would happen to all the nuts. Guess what! They don’t want to take the time to pick up the pecans and shell them! So this morning I picked up “a [...]
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Just Enough and No More
I’ve been spending some time lately researching how to fix Mike’s computer. He has a motherboard with RAID, so of course he was using it, as the boot disk. Then on the 13th or so, it got caught in a reboot loop due to an error on the disk. It took me a while to [...]
Who’s Watching Us and Why?
I read the following in Paul Myers’ newsletter and had to share it TalkBiz News Issue for August 26, 2010 Today’s issue gets into some things I think everyone who uses computers or cell phones needs to consider. This is serious stuff, and it’s important. Feel free to share this with anyone you like, including [...]
Old Cars
It’s not that I’m worried or anything, or keep thinking about this stuff even though I deliberately changed my habits… Joy to Robbie: I think I asked you this before but I don’t remember. What is it exactly that they made electronic in car engines that would be affected by an EMP? I had a [...]
Joining Families
I guess I can say I have another sister now. Well, she’s an in-law, but it’s pretty close. My brother Andrew married Andrea. They both have used the name Andy for years. It was interesting, with Hank not wearing his reading glasses and Andy dropping the ring. A good time was had by all. We [...]
Economy of scale
Joy wrote: The BusinessWeek article “Yuan poised to become Reserve Currency, Goldman’s O’Neill Says” shows we have to watch out for China. It has the power to do whatever it wants. Robert Reynolds wrote: Laura and I talk about this problem frequently. There just isn’t anything left for people to do in this country, except [...]