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The point of social formalities
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide the lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand […]
What is My Wife to Me?
Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete. To have continually at one’s side a woman, a daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her […]
How Do Credit Cards Relate to Terrorism?
Uh, ok. This just isn’t right: Pay too much and you could raise the alarm. What happened to “…home of the free”?
You put H2O2 Where?!
OK let me just give a little warning up front in case you are eating your lunch: this monologue may be under the disgusting category for you. If you aren’t eating or not easily phased then read on.
Our youngest has been tugging at his ear, and that usually indicates some sort of infection. […]
Murphy’s Law
I never knew where Murphy’s Law came from until I read this. It has some interesting thoughts further down, relating paradoxes that occur due to the law combined with other similar “laws”. It also pointed to Hanlon’s Razor which has a couple of funny quotes, one by Albert Einstein and another by Elbert […]
After all these years I’ve still got it!
Hmmm, I was going to start out saying: “when I was a kid…” but I seem to do that alot. I can recall when I was a young lad on the occasions that my mom had me set the table that it could be vexing for me. We had these cool plates, cups […]
Almond Butter & Dates
I believe that I have a sugar addiction. While my metabolism is fast enough that it doesn’t effect my weight I’ve been doing a study of my person over the past month and the effect sugar has on it. I was disheartened to see how negatively sugar effects me. I’ve also noticed how […]
Balm for your RFID Paranoia
For some reason the concept of RFID tags scares me. Maybe it is something that came from finding aspects of George Orwell’s 1984 possible. It seems that it isn’t coming about through government but through businesses trying to extract as much capital from their “customers” as possible. I was glad to see […]
Fun Science Projects
I always enjoy doing science projects with my kids because I get to see the excitement of discovering something new in them. I came across a site that I believe I will be frequenting to find new experiments that we can do: Sci-toys.com looks like lots of fun.