I was talking to someone about Post It Notes this morning. As you may know, they are one of the world’s great accidental inventions. A chemist was trying to develop a super-strong glue and got something super weak instead. A bit later another scientist thought to use that failed glue to hold markers in his hymnal at church. Boom – Post It Notes! Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Bees
I was coming in from a meeting yesterday and noticed a bunch of bumblebees collecting nectar from the plant next to the garage. Not really an unusual occurrence except that we had 40 MPH winds here yesterday. Somehow, the bees were doing their best to complete their work despite the atrocious wind. They weren’t going to let things they couldn’t control get them off track. They adjusted and moved on. Continue reading
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The Quiet Ones
Almost every time the news has a report of some nut going postal on his workplace or neighbors, I turn to my wife and say the line that some eyewitness is going to use: “I don’t know, he was always pretty quiet. Pretty much kept to himself…” and most of the time I’m a second or 2 ahead of the TV. But not all the quiet ones are nuts-in-waiting. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 