Beauty is in the mind of the beholder. Studies show that attractive people benefit from more advantages than unattractive people. For instance, we know newborn born babies respond better to attractive faces, or at least faces that are pleasant looking. For example, people use the common expressions, “pleasant to the eye” or “easy on the […]
Senior Abuse
OUR DISRESPECT OF THE ELDERLY In the new millennium, there is one thing that most folks can agree on when it comes to the mess in our society. We refuse to honor the fifth commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother." Several years back, I was taking a […]
Grand Unified Theory of Weirdness
I have been an avid reader of the Rigorous Intuition blog for some time now. It is always thought provoking. While trying to make a comment today about a post and the comments about it, I found I couldn’t. Having spent some time on it, I thought someone ought to read it. It seems to […]
A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL
ERIE CANAL VILLAGE…. FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL Just a few miles south of Rome, NY a short steel-railed bridge crosses an anonymous stream. It runs East-West, straight as an arrow, as if nature had played a trick on itself. It did not. Men in fact built […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]