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First, I want to credit the late Tom Wolfe for his mash-up word – sexiled. Second, the group The Guess Who, for providing the sound track “These Eyes” on 8-track format. Third and last, to Penn State Student Housing for providing me with temporary housing (mezzanine floor of a dorm lounge), so I could have…
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but let me tell you this. What I posted stays forever in the Cloud. All my hopes, fears and dreams (likes) got stored up, analyzed and applied. They are translated into banner ads and relevant ads. You can unfriend me, but still the ads speak accurately about me, and paint the sum total of my…
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The Centennial Man can’t cry. He just lives on, doing the work of ten men efficiently: shooting the Tylenol capsules down the missiles, or dropping the A-bomb on the millions. It’s the age of technological gods, whom “behind you, I can see the millions”. In place of “soulful” “see me, feel me, touch me, heal…
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Being human, we possess both intuition and inhibition. The later is more for survival instinct, while the former propels us toward risks and change. I’d rather exercise more intuition. It is often said women are endowed with stronger intuition than men. Women are good judges of character, of situation especially of danger. Having elected into the House…
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I was with my daughter strolling through the Texas Book Festival when I heard about the shooting in Pittsburg. Heart-broken. I just had a glimpse of hope, that there might be a place for me – like Ng and other published writers of late, to add to the American experience. ( I was also observing…
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Paul Allen died. Age 65. In his post-Microsoft life, he generously gave away at the tune of 2 Billion to museum and art charity. I have yet seen anyone being so true to himself, to his passion and compassion. In contrast to Paul Allen, Paul Getty bought arts and donated for accounting principles, not moral…
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Whether the incident was personal or professional, the past – our past – will show up to haunt us. One mistake is all it takes. In 8th grade, I took up Hapkido ( a cross-over from Aikido and Tai Kwan Do): a lot of arm twisting and jumping/kicking. I was just following a trend which…
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History sometimes comes in full circle. 1968 gave us the battle at Hue, but also at the picket line in Chicago. It’s been 50 years and it might as well be yesterday. My class 68 marked a rough and interrupted start – hell, the US Embassy in Saigon couldn’t even get themselves together for a…
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Happy Labor Day. Let the machine do the work. Just rest. Self-parked cars take jobs away from short-wearing valets. I-robot does the vacuuming. And washing machine cleans the dishes. Algorithms target ads at us, while those auto-dialing calls (spam likely) displace the Indian telemarketers. We are to engage full-time in Shadow work (self check-out) and…
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Last week, Facebook lost a lot of money. Yet, none of us has lost any friend. Well, except here and there a friend from high school passed away. Yet while alive, we seek scapegoat: if only they hadn’t been here, we would have had more jobs, better paying jobs etc… Baby boomers experimented with collectivism,…
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