Beating Vegas, & Bringing Home the Bacon

Part III of My Story continues. Part II Part IToday, we continue on after the Bank of America was graced with my presence for the first time. Working the night-owl shift was a real hoot. We got there at eleven o'clock, at least that's when we were supposed to get there, but the first night I...

Escapades of a 19 Year Old in LA Circa 1955-58

Part II of 12 PartsThe City of SMOG & Warm WeatherLos Angeles, CAWe resume this story from Part I, Why I Fled Ohio & Went West, and begin with first things: get a job, and find a place to live. Now that I know I can't be a HVAC Estimator, and my $200 dollars is down to less than $100...

Why I Fled Ohio & Went West

Part I of XII parts.Several of you asked if I would write some more of what I started with my story about Who Charlie Courtois was? On the other place many of you hung out for a number of years I published 12 stories which some of you may have already read, but the chances are it was so long ago...

The Self-destruction of Newsvine

Newsvine was one of the leaders of the blog arena for at least a half a decade from about 2006 to 2011 and then management decided , apparently, to fix something that was not broken. From 2011 to to now I was simply there, wrote a few articles, wrote a few comments on articles of interest, but...

Print a Bicycle With a 3-D Printer

New 3-D Printer Technology Can Turn a Garage into a Manufacturing Hub

Published on Dec 6, 2012Speakers: Chris Anderson, CEO, 3D Robotics Carl Bass, President and CEO, Autodesk, Inc Thanks to 3D printers and other increasingly cheap and easy digital desktop fabrication machines, the Web generation is now turning making physical things on a global scale. This is more...

Democratic Drama

LAUGH - About the Three Preachers Joke

A Catholic Priest, a Baptist Preacher and a Rabbi all served as Chaplains tothe students of Northern Michigan University at Marquette in the UpperPeninsula of Michigan.They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talkshop.One day, someone made the comment that preaching to...

Corporate Greed of the NRA & Gun-Makers Fueling Massive Gun and Ammunition Sales

In The Week article below the indisputable evidence of greed for: gun sales, push-money donated by the gun-makers to the NRA, are fighting for more gun users to buy not just hunting weapons, but every conceivable type of hard-core weaponry by taking advantage of the fear of stricter laws. This...

SPIRITUAL REFLECTION: Seeing Faithfully

The Arc of the Covenant AboveIf anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God who he has not seen. 1John 4:20Often times we imagine we see God in nature, or in Church, or in others. But John writes here if...