Sunday, May 21, 2017

Crimes of Conscience: Antigone and Stealing from the Public Library

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The libraries at the University of Texas at Austin shelve 83 volumes by Ayn Rand. Of them, 30 have been stolen. Of those, eight are marked ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

TDEM 2017 Texas Emergency Management Conference

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Laurel and I attended the 2017 Texas Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Management annual conference in San Antonio. Although...
Monday, May 15, 2017

ANOC: Advanced Non-commissioned Officer Course

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On the weekend 10-12 March 2017, I completed the Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer Class (ANOC) of the Texas State Guard. Although the J-7 ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

A Nation of Immigrants and Aliens

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Enjoying Season 1 of Mork and Mindy  has given me an opportunity to revisit 1978. To say that times have changed is to warp past the expansi...
Monday, May 1, 2017

A Century of May Days

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The Internationale (Billy Bragg's Lyrics) Stand up all victims of oppression, For the tyrants fear your might. Don't clin...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Building a Team in Fact and Fiction

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The Devil’s Brigade and The Dirty Dozen are two stories from World War II about creating a cohesive combat unit from differing, antagonis...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Newton and Leibniz

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No one got the joke. The office  has a lot of nerds. Our boss earned his master's in anthropology.  My wife said, "The human brain ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Grigory Perelman's "Perfect Rigor" by Masha Gessen

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Technical errors in common mathematics and common English from a writer who claims an early love for mathematics, and who is professionally...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

Mapping it Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographics

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This is a quirky book that challenges the reader to accept unusual presentations of unusual information. Among the artists are Bruce Sterli...
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