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Friday, January 13th, 2012
5 Thoughts You’ll Have at the Time of Death.
From Elephant blog No point in avoiding the inevitable: let’s get on with it then, shall we? Five thoughts you won’t have: 1. “I wish I’d had more plastic surgery.” 2. “I’m so glad I watched every episode of Desperate Housewives: it has given me a deep sense of fulfillment and inner peace.” 3. “I […]
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
“The Thrill Is Gone” from BB King
The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away You know you done me wrong baby And you’ll be sorry someday The thrill is gone It’s gone away from me The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away from me Although I’ll still […]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Gosh Has Surgery and Is Threatened With Arrest
When I had end stage liver disease before my liver transplant I had ascites which is essentially fluid build up in the abdominal cavity. I have a congenitally weak intestinal wall which the pressure of the ascites caused a rupture of so ever since then I have been dealing with an inguinal hernia. This bothered […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Mother Cow
“According to smrti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human being. The cow is the mother because just as one sucks the breast of one’s mother, human society takes cow’s milk. “Similarly, the bull is the father of human society because the father earns for the children just […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Lean, Green Fighting Machine
Image Gallery Image by Flickr user: US Army Africa / Creative Commons The Marines of India Company harbored grave doubts about the experimental solar-power gear they were ordered to tote from their beachside base at Camp Pendleton to the grimmest, toughest war zone of Afghanistan. They were more interested in armor to protect them while they […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Christmas (Finally ?) Passed
Growing up Christmas still had at least the semblance of being a religious holiday. It begin Christmas Eve when we would set up the Christmas tree as a family and get the opening of gifts out of the way. Then Christmas Day was for church and family gatherings. I suspect even then my father knew […]
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Complex Problems – Simple Thinking
1. When NASA began launching astronauts into space, they found out that the astronauts’ pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink wouldn’t flow down to the writing surface). It took them one decade and $12 million to solve this problem. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on practically any […]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Purpose of Existence
“Obviously, our life is dependent on supplies from the Lord. Even for our manufacturing enterprises, we require so many raw materials like metal, sulphur, mercury, manganese, and so many essentials — all of which are supplied by the agents of the Lord, with the purpose that we should make proper use of them to keep […]
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
The Mongoose and the Brahmin’s Wife
Once upon a time, there lived a Brahman by the name of Deva Sharma with his wife. His wife delivered a son and they were happy to have their first child. The Brahmin wanted to have a pet animal to protect the child which would also be a companion to the child. The Brahmin kept his proposal before the […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
“This Gentle Surgery” By Malachi Black
Once more the bright blade of a morning breeze glides almost too easily through me, and from the scuffle I’ve been sutured to some flap of me is freed: I am severed like a simile: an honest tenor trembling toward the vehicle I mean to be: a blackbird licking half notes from the muscled, sap-damp […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
The story of Johnny Lingo and his eight cow wife…
Reprinted from here When I sailed to Kiniwata, an island in the Pacific, I took along a notebook. After I got back it was filled with descriptions of flora and fauna, native customs and costume. But the only note that still interests me is the one that says: “Johnny Lingo gave eight cows to Sarita’s […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Ecological Apple
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Billionaire Buffett Bets on Solar Energy
By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com New Hampshire, USA — The “Oracle of Omaha,” who made his fortune by betting on technologies that appear underpriced, is now putting his money into solar. The solar industry got a turbo-boost of both name recognition and mainstream credibility on Wednesday as a subsidiary of billionaire Warren Buffett’s investment […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
Reflections On a Journey
Driving home from a doctor’s appointment and some errands in Wheeling this morning I was coming out on Route 88 south. This road would be familiar to anyone who has ever visited New Vrindaban as it is the normal way to get here. Although I have driven this road over a thousand times in the […]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Toronto Subway Riders Come Face to Face with Farm Animals
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