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Daily observations of TRVTH in the real world.

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Name: Don Appleman
Location: Zembla

Monday, February 08, 2010

DF

Enjoying some live music

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Act

William James (1906)Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

-- William James (1842-1910), American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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Monday, February 01, 2010

A Moral

John Tenniel`s original (1865) illustration for Lewis Carroll`s Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

-- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), (1832 - 1898), British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, and logician, the Mock Turtle speaking to Alice, in Alice in Wonderland

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Paranoiac In Reverse

J. D. Salinger's signature.I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

-- J. D. Salinger (1 January 1919 - 27 January 2010), American author, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

RIP Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn Speaking at Marlboro College - 02/17/2004If those in charge of our society -- politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television -- can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

-- Howard Zinn (24 August 1924 - 27 January 2010), American historian, political scientist, playwright and activist, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "American Ideology"

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

A Very Small Stage

Earth from 22,000 miles 'up'The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

-- Carl Sagan (1934-1996), astronomer and writer

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Pre For Me

Palm Pre+Palm Pre+ (Verizon) for me today. I've been carrying a Palm Centro as my combination cell phone/calendar/contacts/clock/music system/data caddy for the past year and a half or so. From the little I've played with it so far, the Pre does *not* feel like a Palm. It does feel like a slick high-tech device.

I've spent over 7 years learning all the Palm OS applications that are useful for the types of things I like to do. I hope it's quicker (and cheaper) to find and learn to use the best Pre software.

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