tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148766112024-03-13T08:04:23.032-07:00Avogadro's NumberLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-44557567036082939072013-07-04T10:10:00.002-07:002013-07-04T14:20:40.745-07:00Wombatcon: convention reportWombatCon was what I wanted it to be. Friends old and new, gathered to sit and talk. There were some stories about jan, but mostly there was just friends, old and new, talking about whatever friends talk about. Perfect.The display I put together of a sample of jan's life got the reaction I wanted. A whole lot of people said, "I never knew jan had/did/was..." As I was cleaning up the house and Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-76373537397576260082013-03-26T12:53:00.000-07:002013-07-04T10:25:05.104-07:00My life starts overToday marks one month since jan howard finder died, from complications of cancer and chemotherapy. My world stopped for a moment, while I reconfigured to a different way of living, without The Wombat in it.
jan howard finder died at 12:54am on Tuesday, February
26, 2013, in Albany Medical Center Hospital CCU, from complications of his
cancer and chemo. The cause of death was listed as "Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-599891139746686162012-10-22T08:45:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:19:28.400-08:00Morning Balloons
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~Norman Douglas
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
~Albert Einstein
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
~Norman Douglas
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B. F. Skinner
Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-28332687129500616842012-09-03T14:56:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:28:55.700-08:00Teaching kids"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to ConsiderLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-30030437447803761682012-08-30T07:58:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:29:20.224-08:00Advertising? OyYou can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-8049957219434423682012-08-25T14:10:00.001-07:002012-08-25T14:10:24.087-07:00Fly High, Neil"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012Fly high, Neil.
The Apollo 11 Flight JournalLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-19243018102889333322012-08-25T10:41:00.001-07:002012-08-25T10:41:09.737-07:00Lies... and TruthI have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
~ Adlai Stevenson, campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952)Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-31241664987601790072012-08-24T17:45:00.001-07:002012-08-24T17:45:26.840-07:00A Small Dichotomy Here.A small dichotomy here. On one hand, there are people who say certain things don't exist, or don't happen often. On the other hand, there are groups making advertising campaigns covering those issues that "don't don't happen often", or create websites to cover issues around things that "don't happen often". With all the issues in the world that need dealing with, why would people create stuff Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-26376195005838237432012-08-24T16:42:00.000-07:002013-07-04T10:30:28.182-07:00Makes as much sense as any other explanationAbbott and Costello explain Unemployment!
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 8.3%
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: You just said 8.3%.
ABBOTT: 8.3% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 8.3% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 8.3Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-17069432020941764402012-08-20T17:14:00.000-07:002012-08-20T17:14:30.596-07:00I wish it were that easy.Rep. Todd Akin, on pregnancy due to rape:
"I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
uh, and what is the raped woman in this scenario? Besides inconvenient.
Rep. Todd Akin, on selective fact finding:
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,..."
A 1996 Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-36038062479089392402012-08-13T15:41:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:50:50.178-07:00LIFE HORSE!I made a pilgrimage to the University of Vermont Middlebury's Morgan horse farm on 8 August. It was just a bit hot and humid, so I didn't stand outside much. And the pictures in the barn didn't come out too well. Gee, I guess I'll have to go back.
Statute of Morgan, given in memory of Justin Morgan
Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-86195575749756181332012-08-06T15:42:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:50:31.867-07:00The Summer of 2012 -- Too Hot to Handle?That's the caption on an article from NASA Science News.
Stealing the first few paragraphs:
August 3, 2012: This past June more than 170 all-time US heat records were tied or broken--many of them originally set in the historically hotter months of July and August. And with a drought plaguing much of the country, the ground is as dry and crispy as a saltine cracker.
By early July, 56% of Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-5906343126569706382012-08-03T13:16:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:51:17.805-07:00Easing A Burden For Vets?Really. That's what the article says.
According to the July/August 2012 AARP bulletin, "the Department of Veterans Affairs is making it easier for vets to provide medical information supporting their disability claims. Veterans' medical care providers can now download any of 71 forms for specific conditions..."
WaitWhat? 71 forms? Good grief! I supposed allowing the forms to be downloaded is anLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-43787129872482470572012-07-07T10:17:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:51:28.006-07:00Tips for BirdersIn reply to a request for comments about birding, I wrote this on someone else's blog. I thought you, my voracious reader... readers, might find it fun.Keep in mind that "comfortable clothing" for birding means stuff you can hike in, go thru shrubbery in, wade a creek in. Story I read/heard years ago had a young woman arrive in low-heeled office shoes. For her, those were "Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-6643603840455078932012-07-04T16:14:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:30:04.867-08:00Great soul and vast viewsPower always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.John Adams, Second US PresidentLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-5419484079545372282012-06-14T16:06:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:30:47.016-08:00The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.— Lloyd George)Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-9794558936077430682012-06-02T14:00:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:53:19.947-07:00Life's requirementsWe act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles KingsleyLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-9731044442582731762012-05-26T20:03:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:51:45.935-07:00I don’t want politicians who are 'above politics,' any more then I want a plumber who's 'above toilets'.'
— Ta-Nahesi CoatesLin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-58159209951101790622012-05-23T17:50:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:52:44.575-07:00Why yes, you can video policeFrom this article: U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue"On Monday, the Department of Justice slapped the Baltimore Police Department with another letter, condemning it for writing such a vague general order and for allowing the harassment to continue."It is a very impressive read. Eleven pages of case citations and Constitutional clarifications. Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-83879563115989749572012-05-21T17:44:00.000-07:002013-07-04T10:27:50.415-07:00What does the economy look like?"Markets do everything best – managing business and systemic risk, innovating, investing, organising executive reward – without the intervention of the supposed dead hand of the state and without any acknowledgement of wider social obligations." — A quote from The Guardian as part of an article that answers the second question.
Two questions:
1) If it works, what is it supposed Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-85780662244072868032012-05-20T15:59:00.003-07:002012-08-20T15:53:05.371-07:00Anarchists?The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-82220866354071264812012-05-11T09:34:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:52:14.201-07:00When there is fear, there is tyrannyFound on a survivalist blog:
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Really?
When the government fears the people, there is tyranny. DHS/TSA for example.
Tyranny comes when there is fear in a relationship. Liberty comes when both sides have a clear understanding of each other, and agree to compromises necessary. Tyranny Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14876611.post-63766885735867305402012-05-10T09:17:00.000-07:002012-05-10T09:17:00.162-07:00WTF? Workers = Consumers?Pundits have an incredible ability to segment information, separating out bits of data into separate categories. They see people or events as discreet bits of information, to be categorized and sorted. This is useful for many things. Scholarly analysis is one of them.
However, not for a lot of real life analysis. For example:
It was with much astonishment on my part to watch a selection of Lin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327599600904358480noreply@blogger.com1