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Grit….

June 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Grit…. · Older Essays

“…what starts the process really are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid…But if you are reasonably intelligent and if your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance, while those who have everything are sitting on their fat butts…”  […]

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Alas poor Yorick….

May 31st, 2009 · Comments Off on Alas poor Yorick…. · Older Essays

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman said that in the Roger’s Commission report. It is a facet of human nature to avoid looking at difficult things full on. Then we see the problem. We face the line of our own limitations. We can […]

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Push the envelope

May 31st, 2009 · Comments Off on Push the envelope · Older Essays

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.  Katherine Hepburn

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Directions…

March 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Directions… · Older Essays

Travel can be a good thing. It is a talisman to the future. You get in the car and go and go until the bridges have been crossed, the tolls paid and then you are somewhere else entirely. Maybe only for a little while and then you have to loop back on all the roads […]

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