Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rescuing Aristotle and the Church

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Last night, we started watching  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey  on DVD. Still waiting to finish Episode 1, the narrative has problems. The er...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

World War II Victory Dinner and Dance

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Once again, the Texas Military Forces Museum and the Texas Military Forces Historical Foundation hosted their annual Valentine's Day Swe...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

TECHNICAL WRITING: COMPLAINING AND EXPLAINING

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“Never complain. Never explain.” is the unofficial motto of the British royal family. It expresses the stiff upper lip attitude which is st...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020

New Plate and Stickers

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Having retired from the Texas State Guard, the time came to change the messages on my car. The State of Texas grants a long list of specia...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Good Place with Inadequate Philosophy

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We enjoyed  The Good Place . We watched it on disc and look forward to the release of Season 4. The show’s chatty dialogs on moral philosop...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

SCIENCE FAIR: A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILM

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This will be my ninth year as a judge at the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival. I found this film shelved in the non-fiction videos a...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Madame Curie Complex

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I relied on this book for facts about the women computers at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19 th to mid-20 th  centuries. (That artic...
Monday, January 6, 2020

Amateur Astronomy for Pay

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Technically, of course, if you are getting paid, then you are not an amateur. At least, that is how the International Olympic Committee us...