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My gosh, what a seminal concept! Stolen from STREETTECH Memes Memes are patterns of information that behave like viruses. The science of memetics studies the replication, mutation, and carriers of memes. Many scientists consider memes to be actual living things that "ride" in the nervous systems of... Sign in to see full entry.

Surreal, simply surreal. Being a mid-fifties (born and birthdate) middle class male, it was at once a trip into the past, an encounter with the future, staged by the present. The past: looking at the other customers, looking at the prices and the quality of the materials of much of the goods, I... Sign in to see full entry.

as he rolled up his sleeping bag into a black garbage bag, bungee corded it into the fender basket of his single speed rusty bicycle, and rode off precariously into downtown traffic. That's today's koan. Consider which attributes to hide and when. Sign in to see full entry.

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http://www.nps.gov/remembrance/manzanar/manzanar_vid.html I've blogged abot hiom before. Maybe I'll see if it is lurking around the hard drive somewhere. Sign in to see full entry.

Allow me an analogy from my past. We were out in the field one summer, and the First Shirt brought out his big morale booster. With seven hundred sweaty airmen living and sleeping and working in a "tent city" of canvas GP Medium's from the Korean War era, what could be more alluring than a steel... Sign in to see full entry.

Case management has been a way to safely complete my twenty years with my employer, but it is not a field I enjoy nor have a "nack" for. As well, there are rumors that with the potential implementation of socializedmedicine for the indigent, the department may fold. The first time I was on the verge... Sign in to see full entry.

If you watch no other tv this month, watch for it. Interviews and commentary with the principals, except for a few (Rumsfeld and Powell, plus the rest of the sitting cabinet members and other secret powers that hang around the Pres). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/ Sign in to see full entry.

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I can't take two hours to rewrite my CV whenever I find another of my past influences. Then, as they are dwindling and dying off, maybe not... Finding and contacting female mentors and old friends is hard due to surname changes. Ladies, if you want to hear from your ex-students of yore (and old... Sign in to see full entry.