Michael Jackson! 
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I'm not sure I've got the you-know-what to do any of these. But if you throw up it's a long way down!
Do You Trust Engineers
Is that Vegas?
This is just fun. And creative!
Spaghetti
I had a great ride this morning. Saturdays are LSD days - Long, Slow Distance. I took a new route that turned out to be quite scenic, and rode further than I have since I started back a month ago after about 3 months out of the saddle. Even the flat tire at the 15-mile mark didn't dampen my enjoyment.
I'm making two mounting systems for the clinic that will attach to the joists and drop down just below the suspended ceiling with an eye bolt at the bottom. Then they'll attach a variety of swings to the eye bolts. Turns out autistic kids are calmed by swinging motions.
I went to the Sun City Metal Shop to ask about getting the brackets made that will attach to the joist and support the 1/2" threaded down rod, which in turn is supposed to support a load of up to 1,000 pounds. I left 20 minutes later with the two brackets.
This guy, David, is a third generation machinist. He started his career in N.Y. working on high rises, including the Twin Towers. He then worked as an instructor for the Coast Guard in Florida and from there to Sun City. His N.Y. attitude survives. But he whipped up those brackets easy and quick. Total cost - $15. The interesting conversation came free.
I enjoy meeting new people. Most of them have an interesting personal story. All it takes is a few carefully framed questions and they're more than ready to tell you that story.
All of which makes me wish I could write fiction, because I've met lots of people who would make great characters for a short story.
Tony Snow was a good guy. And relatively young. Sad - for his family. But from what I've gathered by reading things about him over the last several months he's with the Lord this evening. Glad.
I may have mentioned this - the people are the best part!
How much money is too much? Is there such a thing as having too much money? What if a person was very generous with their money, giving large sums of it to good causes - could they still have too much?
Two great segments on Weekend Edition on NPR this morning. One was about a just released book on Han Van Meegeren, a Dutch forger who successfully sold fake Vermeers. I've always liked Vermeer paintings (think: Girl with a Pearl Earring). I may have to get this book.
I will definitely get "What Love Will Do," a new CD by Janiva Magness. I'd never heard of her, but I like the blues and this lady sings the blues! You can hear a couple of her songs by clicking the link here, but it doesn't work in Firefox - at least not on my computer.
Good stuff!
1 comment:
I think that it is not a question of too much money but how it is acquired. Here is a quote from the June 28, 2008 edition of "The Economist" reflecting on the career if Mr. Bill Gates.
"Mr. Gates had the good fortune to be perfectly suited for his time-but he is less well-equipped for the collaborative and fragmented era of internet computing. This does not diminish his achievement. Nor, as some would have it, does his philanthropy necessarily magnify it. Whatever the corporate-social-responsibility gurus say, business is a force for good in itself: its most useful contribution to society is making profits and products. Philanthropy no more canonises the good businessman than it exculpates the bad."
As I sit here in Seattle and ponder the 100,000 people that Microsoft employs, (not to mention the rest of the industry that his company spawned) I think that whatever money he has amassed in that time is paltry compared to the countless thousand others who have been able to ride his coattails in similar fashion.
To me, it's not really about the money, it's whether your acquisition of it was in the process of helping your fellow man or hurting him.
IMHO.
Mike Harper
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