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God bless America?

September 2nd, 2008 · 11 Comments

Almost every speaker at the Democratic and Republican conventions says, at some point in their speech, “God Bless America”. What does this mean? I’ll set aside the issue of the existence of this supernatural being for this blog, but I want to hear from people who accept it. What do they mean? Do they believe […]

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The Saddleback Interviews

August 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

The interviews of McCain and Obama at Saddleback Church by Rick Warren were very interesting. I liked that the candidates were not confronting or reacting to each other. It gave a chance to focus on each candidate separately. I’d like to see more such interviews. The contrast between the candidates was also interesting, less for […]

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Cruise Post-Mortem

June 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After completing projects at Intel, we had to prepare a “post mortem”. It doesn’t mean that anything died, but rather is a summary of what we learned, what went right, what went wrong, and recommendations for future projects. Here’s my post mortem of our recently completed Baltic Cruise. You don’t have to gain weight on […]

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Next Season

April 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

It was a disappointing year for Arizona basketball fans. It’s time to look at “next year”. On the negative side, Jerryd Bayless has opted for the NBA draft. Probably wise, since he is projected to go in the first 10, with a few million dollar salary. On the positive side, Lute Olson will be back […]

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What will life be like in 2008?

March 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Here’s an article from Mechanics Illustrated in 1968 forecasting what our lives were expected to be like in 2008. You can either page through the images of the article above, or read it in plain text below. I think we’re a little behind schedule…

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The “Evil” ACLU

March 7th, 2008 · 8 Comments

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is well known as an advocate for protecting American’s rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Many people have the opinion that the organization is anti-religion, because of many well-publicized cases where they have taken the side of people objecting to public prayer or other religious observances. […]

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Do diet drinks make you fat?

February 21st, 2008 · 26 Comments

There is some interesting research out there indicating that drinking artificially sweetened foods actually causes weight gain, at least in rats. The rats that were given artificially sweetened food tended to eat more of other high calorie foods when they were available. The hypothesis explaining the data is that “artificial sweeteners condition the body to […]

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Free Rice

November 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Thank you Derek, for telling me about this website. Take a look at Free Rice. It’s a simple multiple-choice word definition game with a twist. For each word you get right, the page sponsors donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. It sounds like an Urban Legend or […]

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No Jury for Me

July 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I heard back from the court today, and as I expected they do not want me for the case. The case is described in the Tempe Tribune. The defendant is charged with murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty. In Arizona (and I think every state after a recent Supreme Court ruling), the […]

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Behind the Veil

June 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This is a fascinating article on a woman’s experiences in Saudi Arabia.

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