Category Archives: The Deep End

Doing the math

So, it costs Netflix about a nickel to stream an HD movie to your computer. This set me off on a train of thought… I looked up the size of an HD movie. It appears that such a movie represents … Continue reading

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A single reason

On my way out the door this morning, my six-year-old granddaughter asked me if I was going to vote. I told her “Yes” and she rushed me, saying “You have to vote for BarackObama for meeeeeee!” I thought about that … Continue reading

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As serious as a….

“Heart Attack.” I heard the doc say the dreaded words from under the morphine haze. Last Thursday morning, after work, I went to bed, and couldn’t get comfortable. Not really in pain, just a gentle pressure on my chest and … Continue reading

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A sad story, written in stone.

I stopped in Casey, Ill. on my way back from Tulsa, to take a quick search for my grandparent’s graves. It was on a Sunday, so the cemetery office was closed, and I didn’t find the graves I was looking … Continue reading

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All Grown Up.

For some reason, my daughter is always going to be my little girl. I have a persistent mental image of her sitting next to me on the way home from McDonald’s when she was about 2 years old, snuggled up … Continue reading

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Wasteful and Unnecessary

Yesterday, I said, speaking of the funeral “industry”, “Every product this “industry” sells is wasteful and unnecessary.” Let’s examine that: Cremation: OK, let’s burn increasingly scarce fossil fuels and pollute the

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And when I’m dead and gone…

I’ve been aware for a long time that there are probably fewer days ahead of me than have already passed. So, my thoughts from time to time pass through some morbid territory.

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A million eyes

In my last post I alluded to the fact that the Internet was more responsive and had more facts at hand than the Administration or FEMA seemed to have for several days. There’s a lesson in there, I think. While … Continue reading

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Depraved Indifference

Like most of the people in the blogosphere, I’ve been watching the horrors on the Gulf Coast, and in and about the city of New Orleans. I’ve refrained on commenting on them for a week or more now, because adding … Continue reading

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