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Beamza and I are having a discussion right now.  Is skill at strategy games an inherited skill or is it a learned skill that some are better at than others because of their childhood experiences.  We are both pretty sure it is a little of both, but what has the greater impact.  It all started […]

So somehow I got wrangled into being a presenter at a local high school’s career day.  Of course they had a bit of a mixup and had 2 presenters for 1 biotech session so I subbed in for a missing presenter.  So I got a classroom of kids who we were expecting a talk on […]

This is my long overdue post of any kind, I post every 6 months whether I need to or not.  My better half, flowrpowr (my choice of pseudonym, she likes to take photos of flowers) and I just got back from a well deserved vacation to the other hemisphere.
I do have to report that the […]

And now for the official report on our trip to DC.  It was fun.
Of course, I can never let things go with just that, and I don’t go back to work till next Monday, so prepare for the expanded edition(although I promise to be more brief than I was about Nova Scotia).
Beamza and I saw […]

This is how you know you’re dedicated to showing your friends a good time: you walk them around your town for the full day, in the sun, for over 10.5 miles.
This is how you know they are good hearted friends: they follow you. Really, without question - almost spookily cult like.

I leave it to […]

Chilling at home, watching a basketball game last night with the visiting pingpong & beamza, this commercial came on:

I don’t even know how this ad campaign and company has survived mainstream screams to make less disturbing commercials, but I am glad that this continues.

The United States tortured the detainees at Guantanamo.  The pdf of the 2007 ICRC report is ~40 pages and really should leave no doubt at all as to what the W. Bush Administration did with these people, held in secret, and probably with no real intention of ever submitting them to any fair judicial tribunal.  […]

Thanks to Pacrand for renewing again the site.  Though sometimes we post less frequently, I have always been glad to have a place to share things with friends.  (In a much more personal arena than FB.)

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.