Miscellanea

Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere

Why Isn’t Sean O’Keefe Unemployed?

I would like to know why NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe still has a job. For that matter, I’d like to know why no charges are pending against him or anyone under his authority. Fully a year after Columbia’s disintegration over Texas – a series of mistakes and arrogant inactions that cost the lives of seven […]

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If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself…

Every time it rains, our DSL goes out, and the phone line gets screwy (or just goes out, as well). Bellsouth has sent people out, repeatedly, usually after delays of hours or days, which is bad, for a home-based Internet business. They usually tinker for a while and get it working again, but not always;

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Close Encounter

I was about 30 feet away, when a lightning bolt blew apart a large sweetgum tree, in the back yard. Fortunately, I was inside, but I still went flash-blind and concussion-deaf, for a few seconds. That’s the second closest I’ve been to a lightning strike (the closest was a direct hit between the cabin and

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