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It’s been fifty years since, yet that US-shaped cake with red-white-blue icing still lingers somewhere in my memory: all typewriters stopped, and all Child Welfare staff joined in “Happy Birthday”. Placing unaccompanied minors into foster care to them was just a job. To show me, unpaid interpreter, some humanity was extra. The 322-22 highway curved…
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From zero to 1. Disruptive behavior e.g. move fast, break things. West Coast upending East Coast, Palo Alto Rte 128. Tear-off jeans displace upscale jeans. “Stop-out” is the new “drop-out”. Who needs college! College? it’s where they teach you to question where technology is heading, whether it’s serving the need of humanity (the majority) or…
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Paul Tournier said, “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets”. Those moments when we felt more like Fredo than Michael Corleone. Fredo, played by Cazale, half Irish, half Italian was at one time in a relationship with Meryl Streep (also in the Deer Hunter where she played a Vietnam draftee’s bridesmaid in a Slavic…
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A Purdue graduate has designed a robot that can cut through the Rubik cube chase in a blink of an eye. That’s 51 years’ worth of twist and shout, frustration and triumph. Next gen is with new promises albeit working at greater speed. Daughters, all futures. Dad past. Julie Kim Le’s showcased in split-screened reproduction…
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Our elderly statesman, former President Carter, once told Charlie Rose he still regrets not sending enough choppers out on Eagle Claw, the Iranian hostage rescue. In the same vein, I couldn’t forget Operation Frequent Wind whose choppers couldn’t be rid of quickly enough. Those who don’t act also have regrets. But perhaps less than those…
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A lifetime of interaction reduced to just a name on grave marker. Something is hollowed out, a vacuum unfilled. While living, we gave so much weight to feelings: anger, humiliation, humor, humility, assigning ill intention, assigning blame, false accusation, second-guessing and self-projection. Just stressed out. Just figuring it all out. Then understood, finally (no finality…
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Just as in Final Destination, the series, I had similar premonition: Tet 75 would be my last! (God knows I have tried: same time of the year, same place, but as Thomas Wolfe put it, “You can’t go home again”.) Enrolling in pre-med, I was with a mission: to pass the entrance exam. Yet Tet…
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-fire-chief-stopped-help-165440802.html Fire Chief. Stopped to help. Shot to death. News like this don’t normally grab the headline. Or currently, in California, Los Angeles to be more exact, firefighters are exhausting, overworked and hopefully, not under-appreciated. I watched The Towering Inferno the other night and came away with a much deeper appreciation for those who “gave…
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Inside CPU’s, clocks. They are instrumental to squeeze max performance out of those chip set. We want train, plane and automobile to arrive on time and on point at the speed of clock. On the football field, except for Time-Out, the clock and the score board nudge the ball forward, most pressing and precious are…
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At times, due to the widening gap between Belief and Action, I tone down the Left side of the equation albeit still reaching. Who wouldn’t want to live a fuller version of the ideal self? Getting things done. Praised by the people. Projects completed, under promised and over delivered. As it turns out, with so…
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