Tag: random musings
member name: Bert B.
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November 19, 2006 01:59 AM EST --
Let me start by assuring you that the name I use here on Gather is my real name, Bert Bigelow, and the picture I use for my icon is an actual picture of me. The information in my profile is accurate, . . .
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March 27, 2008 02:41 PM EDT --
On our recent trip to Australia and New Zealand, we were unhappy to learn that domestic flights in New Zealand had severe weight restrictions…only one piece of checked luggage is allowed, maximum . . .
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January 05, 2008 12:17 AM EST --
This would have been my mother's 110 th year if she were still alive. She was born in 1898. She lived a long, and for the most part, healthy life, dying in 1990 at the age of 91. Even though she . . .
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February 18, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
Moral or ethical dilemmas are often presented in an attempt to manipulate us to accept a particular point of view, no matter how distasteful we find it. In many cases, the dilemma is bogus, . . .
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January 04, 2006 10:05 PM EST --
My birthday is December 21st and our wedding anniversary is New Years Eve…this year was our 45th. This juxtaposition of major milestones in my life has always made the holiday season a bittersweet . . .
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June 04, 2008 02:08 AM EDT --
After two knock-down, drag-out political articles about Obama, and a two-part piece that was critical of Capitalism, I need some comic relief. But I don't do comedy very well, so you will . . .
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April 06, 2009 12:41 AM EDT --
I went to my local electronics store today to buy an SD card for my wife's camera. After browsing around, I ended up buying a 4-gigabyte card for about eight bucks. That works out . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a beautiful young married couple named Ken and Barbie. They had two children named Ken Jr. and Barbarella. Ken was a lawyer, in a very successful private practice. . . .
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July 06, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
A number of people are predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012. That date is fairly significant to me. It happens to be my 76 th birthday. I suppose I should feel . . .
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August 08, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
A long, long time ago, there were humans on the earth. Records show that the first ones probably lived in what we now call Africa more than fifty thousand years ago, and from there, they gradually . . .
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July 15, 2006 12:06 AM EDT --
We just returned from three weeks in Eastern Europe. We visited Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia on a river boat cruise that followed the Danube from Budapest, Hungary to the Black . . .
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September 19, 2009 01:32 AM EDT --
Note: I am not a currency or arbitrage expert. I have studied this subject only briefly, and I think I understand how it works. I welcome comments and corrections from more knowledgeable readers. . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
The word 'numbers' is an interesting word. Especially for people who don't like to deal with them. Numbers can live up to the meaning of the root word, and be numbing. I like . . .
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May 11, 2008 02:04 AM EDT --
It is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, and according to recent LA Times polls, he would beat John McCain by 8 percentage points if the election . . .
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May 24, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
It might be a bit premature, but I am already looking ahead to Obama's second term, and it occurs to me that there is a very good chance that there won't be one.
Why? The . . .
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March 18, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
DUM de DUM DUM
The story you are about to read is true; some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent. My name is not Friday and I am not a cop.
If you don't . . .
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December 23, 2005 08:03 PM EST --
SYNOPSIS AND DISCLAIMER: This article shares some ideas with my previous published piece "A Glimpse of the Future." This one is less of a diatribe, and contains more technical detail . . .
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September 06, 2006 02:47 AM EDT --
As the time for my next high school reunion approaches, I find myself wandering back in my memories to those far-distant days. I graduated from high school in 1954.
I've lost many mental images . . .
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February 10, 2009 03:34 PM EST --
I went to my doctor today to discuss my weight.
I am 20 pounds overweight.
He told me that the solution is to gain ten pounds.
Our economy is in the toilet.
The . . .
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August 14, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
“A conscientious objector (CO) is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant . . .
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