Category Archives: Thinking Aloud

You

What have you done for YOU today?  If you’re like almost everyone I know, it’s probably not much.  You might have taken care of the cats by spending 3 minutes feeding them and another 3 petting them.  Did you spend 6 minutes on you?  If you think you look like this fat tub of you know what, did you spend 10 minutes umm…you know..lightening the load? Continue reading

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Dogs Aloft

English Bulldog with characteristic underbite

Let’s end the week on a lighter note, shall we?  One of the great things about this great interconnected digital world  of ours is that occasionally, out of the mix of recycled jokes and end of the world rumors that are easily dispelled with a quick search comes something funny.  In this case, funny and enlightening. Read on

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Colombo

So it’s 1492 and you’re sitting around Europe fretting about the fact that the Ottoman Turks have disrupted your normal trade routes to India and China.  You’ve got this flat Earth you’re trying to navigate but the Italians and the Arabs call different distances a mile so it’s kind of hard to figure out how you’re going to keep bringing in those supplies of opium spices and silk.  And then, some crazy Italian named Colombo shows up in the Spanish Court. Continue reading

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