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Just a place for me to put my random thoughts …
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American Biographies
The Child’s Book of American Biographies In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make…
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Little Snow White – pdf
a pdf with some Gemini generated images richest man in babylon pdf
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Cornbread – a recipe
Wikipedia tells me: “Cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine. It is an example of batter bread.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornbread I describe this recipe as a “comfort food” – not so much because it reminds me of th comforts of hearth and home but because it is easy…
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Grimms Fairy Tales
pdf in progress
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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie
a video of one of the recipes in the cookbook the recipes are collected from “old” cook books. It is interesting seeing some of the (minor) changes in recipes over time – in this recipe the original instructions started with “7 ounce bars of chocolate” then required chopping those bars into “pea size pieces” —…
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Vince Lombardi – Speech 1970
SO “back in the day” (in another lifetime, in a small town in southwestern Ohio when I might have described myself as an “athlete”) a high school teacher gave me a mimeograph (“ditto sheet”) copy of a speech by Vince Lombardi. Yes, that is the “Vince Lombardi” for which the “Lombardi Trophy” is named. The…
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Dumbledore vs Gandalf
A “social media” post had a poll going about who would win between “Professor Albus Dumbledore” (from the “Harry Potter” books) and Gandalf the grey/white (from The Lord of the Rings – LotR). Well, I didn’t bother voting in the poll – I think Dumbledore was winning – but that isn’t the point. Polls The…
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value, price gouging, and, monopolies
Every “introduction to economics” book will have a chart showing the relationship between “supply” and “demand.” Pointing out that as supply (of a manufactured product) goes up, unfulfilled demand goes down probably sounds obvious, but the relationship works both ways — i.e. if “demand” goes down, then “supply” will decrease. However the relationship between supply…
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look for the union label, corporate profits, and inflation
A “meme” post caught my attention. I’ve seen various versions – but the gist is always that “corporate profits” are the cause of “inflation.” From a “marketing” point of view the meme does a lot of things right – the version that caught my attention “caught audience attention” by stating that “The profits of the…
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Movies, Television, and Streaming
Correlation never equals causality. Maybe that one line sums up “logic 101” and/or “statistics 101.” The example I used to hear was that there was a positive correlation between ice cream sales and drowning. As ice cream sales increase so does the number of deaths by drowning. BUT eating ice cream does not CAUSE drowning…