Back Yard Patio (small)

This should perhaps be posted to the development side. But I put in a patio in the back yard today and wanted to share some of what I learned. Sub DrawVisio() Dim oVisio As New Visio.Application Dim oDoc As Visio.Document Dim oPage As Visio.Page Set oDoc = oVisio.Documents.Add(“basic.vst”) Set oPage = oDoc.Pages.Add ‘Set oPage = … Read more

The Reign of King Mob

After listening to seven lectures from “The Conservative Tradition” I have a much better understanding of what a conservative is and how our present understanding of conservative philosophy developed. While in the first lecture, Prof Allit explained that those holding conservative philosophies hold different beliefs in different periods of history, I didn’t really understand this … Read more

Bold Love

Who understands what love is? The ancient greeks used variants of the word for love to denote increasing levels of altruism. Medieval love was said to focus on the suffering that one feels “derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex”. Think of the sad, but pure, suffering … Read more

Pullup Bar

In order to do more workouts at home, I decided to put a chin-up bar in my basement. I looked around at amazon and saw three real options: over the door mount, on the ceiling mount or wall mount. Three examples shown below: Chin-up bar examples Wall mount Wall Mount Ceiling Mount In a pull-up … Read more

The Next 100 Years

kinda absurd regarding the war presented an interesting thread through the future — consider it one of many great strategic thought — didn’t get bogged down regarding people . . . bismarkian — really seeing nations in conflict like the idea how unexpected the future is and how we don’t know who our enemies might … Read more

The Gamble

interesting how to lead change crazy number of PhDs — way above the air force (how did the army get this?) iraq is in trouble — with lots of thorny directions ahead we really did make some big mistakes in completely misjudging how iraq would adapt — still what is the failure here? how are … Read more

Post 9/11 GI Bill Availability

Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs officials are working out the details of a new education benefit recently approved by Congress that goes into effect Aug. 1, 2009. “The absolute most important part of the new G.I Bill is that none of it takes effect until next year,” said Rita Hughson, the chief of education … Read more