Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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no trip to Iran, a puzzle game instead
I hadn’t mentioned it to many people, but I had a paper accepted to a conference in Iran over the summer and was supposed to travel there next week (I even got my university to pay for most of the trip). I was very excited and was going to come back with thousands of pictures…
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two Presidential Candidates in one week
Apparently the University of Tampa is the place to be right now. John McCain is making his second visit to the UT today. Though, of course, John McCain doesn’t actually want to talk to students or faculty. He’s talking to the bigwigs at MacDill Airforce Base and other local business leaders. It’s some “security” pow-wow. …
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the holy grail of pitchers
A couple years ago I brought you the holy grail of lids (a lid for tin cans). Now I bring you the holy grail of pitchers. Right around the time we got married, Debi and I bought a pitcher that seemed well-suited for mixing orange juice, the Rubbermaid Mixing Pitcher, Blessed be the Holy Pitcher. …
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A Publication! A Publication!
I know I’ve been posting a lot about politics lately. Sorry. Not much else of interest going on. However, I think some may find it interesting that Debi and I just published an article (with a couple of co-authors). It’s listed in PubMed, the mega database on medicine and health related research. The article is…
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Palin visits Clearwater (across the bay)
I know I’ve only posted about Sarah Palin of late and not talked about what’s going on in our lives. But I figure talking about Palin is far more interesting than telling everyone we are working long hours and not doing anything exciting. I do have a couple of papers that should be coming out…
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Sarah Palin’s policy position on economic reform
So, we were watching the debate and paused it to discuss something Sarah Palin was saying. When I paused our Tivo, this was the frame it stopped on. I liked it so much I decided I needed a screenshot and would use it to illustrate how she was talking out of both sides of her…
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SHOCKING, TRAGIC DEATH!
(Regardless of political persuasion, you’ll probably find this funny! Poor Rocky….)
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a better post on the current financial shenanigans in D.C.
This post comes from fellow Sociologist, Dave Purcell, at Kent State. I liked it so much I asked him if I could repost it here. So, with his permission: I don’t claim to be an expert on government spending, so please correct me if I am interpreting the budget numbers below in the wrong way.…
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update on Signing for Something website
Not that I’m excited to post on here about Mormonism again, but I do think this turn of events is interesting. One of the key people who set up the website “Signing for Something” opposing the LDS Church’s attempts to ban gay marriage in California is now being excommunicated for expressing his dissenting views. He…
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The Fed… a.k.a. The Corporate Piggy Bank
I don’t know that this is a Democratic or Republican problem (probably just a politics problem), but this story from the New York Times illustrates how our government has become a piggy bank to corporations. Big corporations make bad decisions and now Americans are footing the bill. They rob the people once by giving them…