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The Death of a Genius, but Then Again…

NPR began their story with “Charles Townes, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his part in the invention of the laser died Tuesday at 99.” As a kid, I was fascinated by lasers. LASER—light...

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Photographs and Memories*

As my wife’s parents move, and since my own parents are gone, there are many photographs that are floating in limbo. I’ve been scanning them under the assumption that digital storage won’t fade and...

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Ahhchooo!

I have allergies. I made it almost sixty years without them, but then they showed up—BANG! Or should I say, “Ahhchooo!” We Nowaks are famous for the ferocity (and volume) of our sneezes. I’m allergic...

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There Are Some Nights…

I hear lots of people talking about going home at the end of the day and watching TV or even doing something significant. The older I get the less often that happens. I tend to wind down in the...

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Memorial Day Etiquette

I’ve heard various opinions as to the handling of Memorial Day, with each opinion aghast at those who have differing opinions. Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” when the veterans of the Union...

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Beware of Sermon!

Today’s Sunrise from Virginia Beach, VA, USA. Sorry, we interrupt the sunrise over the Atlantic to deal with some totally expected, unsurprising idiocy from the media (as in not too bright….etc.). Fox...

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Crabs

Over the weekend while at the beach, I decided to do at least one touristy thing and bought a hermit crab, complete with crab habitat (a little cage with screened sides for the crab to climb. My...

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Bummer

Bummers—I hate them. Flat tires, dead batteries, diarrhea, incompetent bosses, and getting struck by lightning. I’ve managed to avoid one of these in my lifetime. Unfortunately, there’s no medal for...

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Trolls and Other Slimy Things You Find under a Rock

I read the newspaper. I also read a wide range of magazines. However, there is a time lag, so I do try to read the news online. I say try because: It often isn’t news. I don’t care who’s had a...

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Password?

No photoshopping here! Every time I turn around, I need to change a password. Worse, when I got fed up with Internet Explorer’s habit of spinning, crashing and burning, I switched to Google. That meant...

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A Finch or a Phoenix?

My kids found a baby bird on the ground the other evening, and concerned about its welfare, they asked what to do. While I claim no expertise, and probably broke a dozen federal, state and local laws,...

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What Living in the South Means to Me

The current brouhaha about removing the Confederate Battle Flag from various public places in the South might be confusing to those of you living in other parts of the United States, foreign countries,...

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The Philosophy of Painting

Since I’ve submitted my final assignment for my on-line course with UC Berkeley, I’m hoping to blog more regularly. Therefore, today, I painted our bathroom. It was an awful green—kind of bile-gone-bad...

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I Miss Them

Do you want to know what I miss? Impressionists. When I was growing up, Frank Gorshin, David Frye, and Rich Little entertained us by combining humorous situations with the voices of well-known...

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Too Busy with Wonderful Things

Finding time to write has become a challenge. I thought that once I was done with my editing course, I’d have all kinds of time, but not so much. I’m too busy spending time with family, catching up on...

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Pastwords

Is this a game or is this real?Wargames Psst! Over here! Under the desk! Yeah, it’s me. With all the hackers, worms, Trojans, spam, and who knows what, I have to protect myself. I’ve got the latest...

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When Did I Catch Up with the Future?

As a kid, the ice cream guy and the paperboy both had these mechanical devices on their belts to dispense coins for making change. Busses had the same device, but it was mounted near the box into which...

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A Communications Drill

There was an emergency drill in Virginia this weekend, which simulated a group of boy scouts stuck at about 5,000 feet as the weather deteriorated. (Virginia has mountains as well as seashore). This...

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Climate Solution

  The Paris meeting is over. The coal producing nations want to continue to export coal. The developing nations point out that Europe and North America had at least a century of cheap energy from coal,...

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Enjoying Astrophysics and Quantum Mechanics at Home

  Image courtesy NASA; NOT the black hole discussed on the blog. Scientists are busy with the Large Hadron Collider, probe spacecraft to the outer planets, telescopes and mathematics to understand the...

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