Monthly Archives: May 2008
Safer traffic is with less, not more
Michael Silence has posted that another Oak Ridge camera company (we have many: Ipix (dead), Pips, Perceptics, Aldis, others?) is attaching cameras to traffic lights. The full story is in the Knoxnews. These new cameras are being tested to replace the magnetic strips in the pavement that detect the flow of traffic or vehicles backed [...]
Posted in Privacy, Touchy Subjects, Transportation, Travel Tagged 1984, big brother, freedom, orwell, orwellian, police state, Privacy, red, red light, speed, ticket, traffic 3 Comments
Disturbing News of the Day
Can you say "psychotherapy?" I knew you could!
A 12-year-old girl has testified in court that she saw her father kill her mother and he then forced her to help dismember the body with a circular saw. [Source, WBIR]
Now that’s some authoritative parenting! I can’t even get my children to sweep the floors! I wonder what [...]
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Oversleeping
Oversleeping takes on whole definition when the person you are working with is 5 hours (or 14) ahead of you!
Stress seems to make it worse wearing the body down. I have written before that the stress reaction used to make sense. You are on the savanna, a lion pops out of the tall grass and [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Health, Mental Tagged obligation, responsibility, sleep, stress, work 1 Comment
Of Being Dad
Dear child, if you put chewing gum behind your ear so that you can brush your teeth, you will have gum stuck in your hair. Love, Dad
Collation?
You mean like getting the papers from the copier in order?
You know, I have probably exported and imported data from hundreds of databases at this point in my life. And never, I say never, have I ever had a collation problem. Collation has to deal with how a database handles issues of sort order, case [...]
It’s good to be 3
Happy Birthday Evan!
Do-It-Yourself Vasectomy
In December, I set up a chipin campaign to raise money for an operation I promised Cathy 3 years ago. The vasectomy campaign ends in six hours and the Internet hath spoken! Either the digital world out there wants 1) me to have more children or 2) see a DIY vasectomy. As complimented as I [...]
From the mouths of babes
Evan, raiding my desk: "I found keys car Daddy."
Me, firmly: "Give me the car key!"
Evan, bolting for the stairs: "I need them!"
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Ring pops?
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Simple, yet powerful
To live, to learn, to love, to leave a legacy. Perhaps our blogs use too many words.
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So where’s the Reality?
On the positive side, Tommy has graduated high school which is quiet a momentous event. This is the last week of school and the two teens are already out with the tween and young girl having their last half day today. I have been coding like a madman staying up as late as 2am and [...]
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Life is hard…
…but you can still enjoy it!
Thanks Victor!
This next one is with credits to WillFul. Thar’s worty dirds in it.
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We don’t need no stinkin’ weight limits