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Years ago the stock market was something for the wealthy to invest in. Today with much of American business going "public" most everyone has some kind of investment in the stock market. At every turn there's a philosophy about how to play the stock ma more »

I've always liked starting religious exhortations with some mention of 1st century Christianity as if that it the purest form. Why change now? I was raised in a Baptist church and I wouldn't doubt that the clin more »

While the Texas legislature was considering a bill to vaccinate school girls for certain viruses our governor stepped in and issued an executive order making it law without lawmaker consideration. Our state our nation our localites and our world is inc more »

There is a tool a filter actually in Photoshop that is useful for a number of things. Recently I've been experimenting and reading more about the High Pass filter. It is most useful for sharpening. Yet there are numerous ways it can be used. more »

When I worked on my system and got the sound working I promptly went to ISC and played (and won) a game of Scrabble. Without sound it was easy to overlook when the opponent made a move and was waiting on you. Even though I won I really wished I knew mo more »

Legacies are now becoming even more difficult to build and maintain these days. Maintaining my legacy was what I did most of yesterday. I'm talking computers here not a philosophy or memory being passed down to subsequent generations. Legacies in compute more »

A period of time has been portrayed in the movies where the planet was mostly deserted due to a nuclear catastrophe or other world wide phenomenon. Much of that time is characterized by a post-modern savagery of fighting and lawlessness. That's plausible more »