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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If you watched John Lennon’s Imagine BBC documentary, you would notice George Harrison back then, and his son (as seen in a Memorial concert for George) look like twins. Next generation is here. Yes, they text and play games online. They are the greatest multi-taskers, whose watchwords are recycling,…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: By now, we all know about our right to make a phone call when being arrested. That phone call usually is placed from a pay phone (soon to be a museum piece). Skype has been down (and slowly back up to full speed), and 26 million users worldwide felt…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: First wave: 1975, 4 “ports of entry”: Arkansas, California, Florida and Pennsylvania. Second wave: 1978 -2008 South Westward to California and Texas. Third wave: joining everyone else during this Recession to the Lone Star State, where 8% unemployment still looks better than 12% and 10% in Florida and California,…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We are diamond in rough cuts. 7 billion of us. The stats show the costs of raising a child in the US at roughly $200,000. With educational score cards showing flat line, while other countries are on the up tick (albeit Shanghai focused on rote learning and test preparation),…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: “Being There” was first released years ago. Peter Sellers portrayed an illiterate gardener who had been walled in all his adult life. His only window to the world was through the TV screen. Hence his speech and demeanor replicated sound bites and screen gestures (awaiting for a “cut” to…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: My kid’s elementary school is collecting lip balms to send to our troops overseas. It struck me that we spend our entire life trying to do good, from small gestures to larger ones, only to see others take it away in an instant. I saw the beautiful picture of…
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If you look, you shall find. In my case, that little book by Edmondo de Amicis, translated of course. It made an indelible impression on my little mind and heart. Years later, it still does. That is, after I have come in full circle, have travelled and traversed the geography of the heart. That “diary” genre…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: I clicked on the “Place Order” button, and a few days later, arrived the used paperback copy of Small is Beautiful, by E.F. Schumacher. Its tag line ” Economics as if People Mattered”. I thought I had that same yellowish copy somewhere after years of moving around. Back then,…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: At 95, the founder of Peace Corps left us to figure out world affairs by ourselves. http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/sns-ap-us-obit-shriver,0,2461815.story I used to shine my dad’s shoes, while he slicked his hair back. From where I sat, he appeared a towering figure. Men from that generation ( like Burt Lancaster’s “From Here…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The creator of Million-Dollar Homepage cashed out, and did nothing for five years. I have waited for the other shoe to drop. It just did. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes. http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ The high school graduate does put his thinking cap on every so often, and knows how to create…
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