An IKE cup of coffee
I definitely enjoy a morning cup of joe, but still without power going into the 5th day after Hurricane Ike, I think I may have taken more steps than normal. – I filled the...
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FCC deregulation ensures that we all really can’t get along
My son comes home from his high school government class (AP, his father adds with pride) talking about how the VP candidates were both picked and sent out as “bulldogs” or attack dogs, given...
If McCain or Obama wants me…
Now that the preliminaries are over (and it went on much too long, longer than the line I waited in to vote against Hillary in the Democratic primary), we can now get down to...
a republican invades the Texas democratic primary
In Texas your party affiliation resets every year. So even though I’ve voted republican in the last six presidential elections (except for a minor dalliance with an independent for which I have forgiven myself)...
bookrev: Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
I’ve been reading this book for a while. Non-fiction books (except history books) always take me longer, as I like to check the facts, absorb the ideas…yeah, I know, it reminds some of you...
bookrev: Embryonic Breathing (Qigong Meditation) by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Qi (or chi) is viewed with skepticism by some, as reality by others or as mysticism. This series of books (starting with Embryonic Breathing and continuing with Small Circulation) presents data and perspectives from...
book notes: American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
Almost every martial artist has some wayward fantasy or frequent daydream about dropping out of life and dropping into the Shaolin Temple, to emerge some undetermined time later as a well-tuned, philosophy spouting fighting...
First tai chi tournament
It was a long week. Trying to close partnerships and/or sales at the end of the year is work I would wish on no friend and only on a few enemies (you know who...
You readers is smart
Thanks to a post on spyscribbler’s blog, I now know how really smart you guys is. It just goes to show what a few good words about Rugby, basketball, beer and my wife will...