"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." Walt Disney Doubting Disney I know, doubting Disney is foolish. Their track record is fantastic. They have announced and are making remakes of their classic library as live action movies. With … Continue reading Doubting Disney
Backing Into Social Security
Yesterday, we visited the local Social Security office. It is hard to imagine, though I have been imagining it now in recent years, that I will turn 66 in less than two months. Retirement age. Gold watch phase. Couch-sitting page. Hard to believe it’s all coming to an end. I’ve been in the full-time workforce … Continue reading Backing Into Social Security
Moneyballer
“People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.” Michael Lewis, Moneyball Moneyballer The idea of money ball comes from a real experience with a baseball team. It was so successful that it changed the baseball game forever. … Continue reading Moneyballer
The Good Witch; Season Four: My Review
"That's the real magic, helping other people." Cassie Nightingale The Good Witch; Season Four: My Review The Good Witch just finished Season Four with its tenth episode. The final episode aired July 1, 2018. Tonight. This show is on Hallmark and with Hallmark come all of the expectations; love, weddings, flowers, very minor drama and … Continue reading The Good Witch; Season Four: My Review
It Was A Sage Hen Kinda Day
“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” ~Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 86 Yesterday I took a day trip to Sage Hen Reservoir. I had asked my friend Kevin Laughlin for recommendations and he gave me his top three. … Continue reading It Was A Sage Hen Kinda Day
The Community Standard
"Have I gone too far?" Kathy Griffin The Community Standard The World of Warcraft, recently, created a new system called the Silence Penalty. With it, players can be reported for any number of things like language, spam or their own made-up names. A report doesn't automatically silence them and I don't know exactly how it … Continue reading The Community Standard
From My Journal – 10-23-13
From My Journal - 10-20-13 Torino, Italy Sitting in my apartment looking through the window, opaque by fog, buses going by, last night the neighbors were running up and down, loud talk, outside the world walked by and I wonder why. Why am I here, why I must question why. My wife lies … Continue reading From My Journal – 10-23-13
The Saints Among Us
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky The Saints Among Us Here at the Profound Bartender Rescue and Preservation Society we get a lot of artists, scholars, poets, philosophers and Very Deep Thinkers. It is a very quiet place. Everyone is working on themselves; … Continue reading The Saints Among Us
The Incredibles 2: My Review
The Incredibles 2: My Review There is a parallel here and so we must go back in time. Walt Disney, when he died in 1966, left behind a huge machine of entertainment. The company has since taken his design and continued to run the huge machine and make a lot of money. Walt Disney took … Continue reading The Incredibles 2: My Review
RBG: My Review
My Review: Don’t Miss It! That is, if you are interested in learning about one the most influential people of our times. If you are interested in learning about the strange bond of friendship and respect between her and her anti-her, the equally brilliant Justice Antonin Scalia. You’ll smile when you see her appearing as a … Continue reading RBG: My Review
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