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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Profound Questions: Why do Arabs wrap their
heads in rags? They call it a turban. I
wonder if they could conceal a bomb in one of those. I would guess, yes. Hey,
talk about blowing your top! I suppose there would be too much damage for
vulcanizing after that. The poor guy might need a head job. Filing Systems: I have always tried to
remain organized, so I have a filing system. It consists of folders in file
drawers with proper identifications, I hope. Even so, I often end up with a
piece of paper in my hand asking, “Now, where should I put this?”
I thought I finally had a solution a couple of weeks ago. I very cleverly
created a file folder called, “Where did I put that.” That worked
for a few days until it became the largest file in my system. It was much
like having no system at all. I abandon that file and sorted the contents
out. I was sorting that stuff
when I remembered the old three-pile solution. It is something I learned from
one of those efficiency seminars that conmen frequently sold to my managers.
The three-pile solution is simple. When you get paper, you separate it into
three piles. They are, must handle immediately, can be delayed a few days,
and no urgency at all. When I do that, I can later sort the second and third
piles to discover that most of the stuff became irrelevant. That is not a
complete solution, but it does reduce my filing effort and the file size. Our Country: People burn flags and
use derogatory terms to describe the country they live in and apparently
hate. Let me say this, if you hate Students: At age 77, I still
don’t know crap. I know about technical things. I know a bit of math,
but I do not know crap about anything important. So I am first and foremost a
student. I think everyone is a student, but many of us do not realize it. we
should realize it and we should pay attention to the lessons that life brings
us every day. Experience: What is all this crap
about experience? Obama is criticized for lack of experience. I think lack of
political experience is good. Bush has experience. Cheney has experience.
Bush knows how to fumble and Cheney knows how to cheat. Is that what we want?
Duh! Fruits: The media has tried to
convince us that a huge bunch of them are getting married in Economy: The gas prices are in
the news constantly. They keep telling us that gas prices will affect our
whole economy. Sure, but I think that effect may be trivial compared to the
effect of the floods of our Midwestern farmlands. Food prices will go out of
sight. Many of us may end up on unplanned diets. Many retired people will
become desperate. All of the negatives are coming together and we have not
seen anything yet. What we shall experience in the near future is a
depression that will make the thirties look like party time. We are spiraling down
and there will be no recovery unless someone makes an effort to solve, not
sidestep, this energy dilemma. Unfortunately, those in power have too much
vested interest in making these old solutions continue to work. Instead of
solving the problem, they try to get more oil so they can sidestep it. They
want to drill offshore. With the history of the oil industry, do we rally
want to let them pollute our offshore waters and destroy yet another food
crop? They say, well get it right this time. We’ll do it differently.
Sure! Insanity: I discovered by watching
local TV news that U of M Flint has raised their tuition rates to $433.00 per
credit hour. That means a kid taking a full load of 16 credit hours would be
putting out almost seven grand just for tuition. I don’t even want to
think of lodging and books on top of that. Can the average kid really step up
with twenty or thirty grand every year for four or five years? If that were
the case 20 years ago, my daughter would not have a PHD now. Is that
progress? I think we are back to the good old days when education was for the
children of noblemen only. I call it insanity. I Love It: Some executives of Bear
Stearns were arrested for bilking investors in the mortgage fraud. Cannin and
Cioffi were charged with encouraging people to invest in a mortgage fund they
knew would fail. The fund lost 1.5 billion bucks. That’s big time. They
said there are more arrests to come. A lot of the little people were hurt.
Many lost their homes. It’s about time they got some of the big guns in
this scandal. I hope they all go down to do hard time. Raciest Stuff: Recently some fools
painted racists slurs on a building at Back
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