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[Temporarily adding to this post this link; http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html . They are providing real up to date info on what is going on in Japan. Please try to ignore the panic-mongering that is happening out there right now. While this is a serious situation (the most serious) it doesn’t pay to panic. We still have to […]

After I threw all her clothes down the garbage incinerator I went off to play poker at the Mayfair Club across the street. It was an accident. They were supposed to go to the laundry guy downstairs. But they were in a garbage bag. So you make the decision. Then I went to play poker, […]

Its dangerous to hitchhike and I’ll never do it again after my initial experiences. I was employee #8 at a company called FORE Systems.  I was the worst employee there.  They thought I could write the instruction manuals for their fiber-optic products. I was miserable at this. The founder of the company, Robert Sansom, once […]

The moment before their famous walk across Abbey Road, Paul had to adjust something on Ringo’s collar. At that moment they were human. In the famous walk, which we’ve seen everywhere, they aren’t human anymore. They’ve become gods. Between the time I was separated from my ex-wife and the time I met my current wife […]

I hate every animated movie made in the past twenty years.  Computer graphics have done nothing to improve storytelling. And despite how I feel about Steve Jobs, I don’t like any Pixar movie that I’ve ever seen. So when my youngest asked me this morning, “Daddy, why do you like that ugly painting? It’s the […]

I asked Mike Parker: if an alien landed from outer space and said, ‘we can take you up right now in our UFO, you would live for 5000 years, and all the women on our planet want to meet you,’ would you go? We were in 7th grade, it was lunchtime and we were sitting […]

I hate self-help books. And any books or articles or “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”  (or “Power of Now”) stuff that don’t really speak from experience and don’t really give you specific steps towards achievement. When you have a gun to your head, with two kids, a mortgage, and your entire self-esteem at risk, you need […]