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How to handle the ups and downs. One respects clean-as-a-whistle winners. The race involves rules of engagement, challenges (Boston Heart-break-hill) and time limits. In short, the measures at the moment. One’s life (around 77 years) vs the machine (near permanent efficiency given full maintenance and upgrade). Farmers and miners, machine and man. All strive to…
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Half a decade is long enough for facts to turn history. Post-Vietnam generation has grown up and grown old. Victimized or victorious, memories of war would soon recede and retreat further, through a thin veil or dense fog (in the Deer Hunter’s fictional tale, a steel-town window screen). The other day, while listening to music…
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Another one bites the dust. My neighbor. A successful and goodlooking medical doctor. Second generation Franco-Vietnamese. His other two surviving younger brothers also inherited good genes, also are successful by all measures. Good genes precipitate good outcome. Most times. At least, they help us out against the test of time before our uninvited guest, the…
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Mr. Malone. Coming to peace with his past. Wild ride and wild West. Friend of Ted Turner and Ruppert Murdoch, sponsor of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, most of all, escaped a “grisly” death together with Craig McCaw. Late 90’s saw a media tectonic shift from analog to digital. Howard Jonas saw VoIP and reaped a reward.…
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It’s Spring forward. Losing only to gain one hour back. Losing life? No way to gain it back. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life so others may live. We are told to be honorable, good, true, equanimous, magnanimous and upright regardless until…. e.g. KKK assassination trial (justice…
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There is nothing for you here, says the incarcerated lady in House of D. It’s a dream in purgatory, neither here nor there, hellish fire and hurting people (to hit back is to hurt yourself). Instead, in giving respect, you gain it back. Run Be Run. One pharmacist student – a Duc – took notice.…
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After defeat, try again. At my first wedding, out in the open, at a park, my dad took over the mike (sound system all set up, why let it go to waste) to sing. Too far to hear across the lake, I remember him raising his fist in the air when the song was over.…
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The 70’s saw me on Sunday, off campus, eating alone. Campus cafeteria closed. Other options: Roy Rogers, Carl’s Jr., Arby’s, Burger King, McDonald, Jack and Wendy’s, all cheap fast foods without a spotlight on me as in Lonely Guy, played by Steve Martin, who pretended to be a Yelper critic (or else, what reason there…
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AI will displace mundane tasks so far required muscles. With Federick Taylor, we’ve got job tasks de-constructed, conveyor belt resulting in the model T’s, “any color you want as long as it’s black”. Then “the rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plain” generic AI will “Repeat after me”. “Repeat after me”. Learning should be…
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For a moment, I thought I had been back to the war zone. But it’s simply opening day of Journalism 101 at Penn State, University Park. Manual typewriters, manual typing. You know the sound of cheap unmaintained buy-by-the-bulk typewriters. From there, “writers” went on to the Daily Collegian, and the lucky few, the Globe, the…
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