(Posted from Cairo) I can’t pretend to get into the minds of the pharaohs. I really have no idea what drove them to build these pyramids. Maybe their friends taunted them, maybe it was just trying to keep up with the Ramses. But you can see what was on their minds. The afterlife mainly. These …
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Michigan and foreigners
Just left Detroit. Michigan is going through another economic downturn. Reminded me of what happened during the last one. A family, I think from Kalamazoo, decided that things were so bad they needed to leave the state. They had heard that all the jobs were going to Mexico so they took their two teen-age sons …
Round-the-World, post 1
Quick, what’s the circumference of the world at the equator? Right, 24,901.55 miles. I didn’t actually measure it, but I did Google it. Of course, if you measure it North/South, through the poles, it’s a bit less. So the world is a little bit rounder than it is tall. Kind of like me after …
9 of us in my car, great committee meeting
So a blizzard’s coming in; what they call, with relish, a Nor’easter. And I’m in Buffalo, trying to get to Connecticut. It’s 4:30AM and I’m at the airport. Flight’s cancelled, of course. Finally get a flight to Philadelphia and, after two more cancelled flights, fly into Hartford Connecticut. 12:30PM. So far, so good. I rent …
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I Ran Over Myself
Broken’s not good. I ran over myself once. It was 1979 and we had a van that had to be started by crawling underneath and shorting out the starter contacts with a screwdriver. Long story, but I ended up with the van breaking 5 of my ribs and with significant pain. It only hurt when …