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Feb.10.2010
Janice Joplin* said it best:
Freedom's just another word forNothing left to loseNothing ain't worth nothingBut it's free!
Janice died not long after recording it of an overdose of heroin. She's free now.
The rest of us aren't free. Some are a little more free than others. Some are complete slaves....
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Jan.27.2010
Why read or write a book that doesn't?
The little library in my town is trying to sell excess books that have been donated. As I browsed through the stacks of Clive Cussler and James Patterson, I was reminded again about why I read so few novels. There was one time when I did read a few of these as...
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Jan.15.2010
... should be crowned poet laureate of America.
Who actually listens to the lyrics of songs anymore? On the few occasions when I hear current popular music, I can't begin to understand what they're saying. Or screaming. Were my parents as critical of my music? I always liked the Boogie Woogie Bugle...
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Dec.31.2009
It's enshrined in the Declaration of Independence! It must be a good thing. And yet .....
When he wrote that we had a right to pursue happiness, but not to catch it, Thomas Jefferson showed that he was a canny character. Modern psychology backs him up on that. Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert is...
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Dec.16.2009
My wife found our wedding book to see if some wine glasses we rediscovered were the same ones we used at our wedding.
I stared in frank disbelief at the young man in the picture cutting wedding cake with this really attractive young woman. "I never looked like that!" My wife didn't say...
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About Dan
I learned that I should be a writer by doing other things. Things like software development and management. Now I'm a successful layabout.
I still do a lot of technical writing. You can see my work at About Visual Basic. You can see something closer to the...