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Just a place for me to put my random thoughts …
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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…
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memoirs of an adjunct instructor or What do you mean “full stack developer?”
During the “great recession” of 2008 I kind of backed into “teaching.” The small company where I was the “network technician” for 9+ years wasn’t dying so much as “winding down.” I had ample notice that I was becoming “redundant” – in fact the owner PROBABLY should have “let me go” sooner than he did.…