It’s funny. On many previous trips to the US for mini holidays, Syracuse was just a city that was easy to bypass using I-481. Lately however it’s become a family friendly destination in its...
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Life Experience
Month: November 2014
Technology
This is what we used to mean if we used the term in computerese. Mainframe units that required their own air conditioned room. These days with a lot of folks surfing the Net on...
Life Experience
I began my career in the Canadian food industry over 45 years ago as a newly minted chemist. During the course of it I worked as a product developer, basic researcher, quality assurance analyst,...
Technology
I believe there is another Appliance Failure Law that says: If an appliance has been in use for approximately 10 years there is a 90% probability of a major meltdown. The latest casualty at...
Watch Collecting
I am a watch collector of sorts. Mostly I collect the old stuff – pocket watches made before World War I and wind-up wrist watches from the 1930s to the 1950s. I got started...
Technology
When I first began to establish an Internet presence there was really only one practical way to do it – build a website. Those were the days of online communities like GeoCities or Angelfire...
Family
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Life Experience
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Technology
It’s a child’s car safety seat. We have two of those in the Jeep as a rule, but today I needed to take the winter tires in for mounting so the seats had to...
Family
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Life Experience
When my daughter was here on Sunday she wanted to go over to the nearby Catholic cemetery since it was All Souls Day. So we did. When we got there, I told her some...
Family
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Life Experience
My grandson came over for a visit yesterday. That got me thinking about the relationship I have with him, and indeed the relationship I had with my own grandpa. This is a picture of...
Life Experience
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Technology
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Watch Collecting
Well it’s done. Tomorrow we shall be on Eastern Standard Time here in the Valley so tonight we had to adjust about 20 timepieces in the house – not counting a bunch of wrist...