ever heard of Magic Sing ? It's a microphone combined with a keypad remote where you can have either a built-in 1,000 song bank or customize some songs of your own. I didn't inquire exactly where this innovation started, but it must be in the Asian region. Anyway, the fun is really in the social exchanges through music, more than one's vocal expertise . At least, that's how I see it.
mellow left-winger ? - way to go! If you're starting a club, where do I register ? It'll do wonders for my health. As for Kb, it would probably do well to have a subsite established for him in JU where bloggers can check for any counter-arguments they might not have thought of. The subsite would need to have a filtering mechanism though, to categorize arguments into sane and insane . Then, we can take our pick.
It is not that easy to get hold of my daughter (I have two grown-up ones by the way), so when I got this call from her saying she would like to show me her Washington office while I was visiting, I grabbed at the chance wanting to see as well if she had firmed up her plans for a wedding of her own following her younger sister. It was a nifty little place wh
Definitely Carl Sagan's "Dragons of Eden" which opened up another dimension for me and led me to the author's other work "Broca's Brain". I found "Dragons.." in a relatives' library and couldn't put it down until parting time when I had to sheepishly ask if I could take the book home with me.
Well, it's either inadequate comfort zones at the workplace or it's a medical issue.
Thanks Ken. I know from medical info that a lot of ADHD sufferers learn to live productive lives. Somehow I find this lost (and found) poem applicable for individuals struggling with any form of handicap.
Let's put it this way; if there was a rogue Christian Fundamentalist group that believed sowing terror and death on all other religions was the right thing to do, how would mainstream Christians react ? We already know how the 'victimized' people of other religions would react but just how would mainstream Christians react in this scenario? I bet there would be some who would be circumspective too and hold back on their finger-pointing for wanting to f
I better email your blog to my son who's afflicted with the same thing. It could help him refocus. Thanks for sharing!
well, in general, there's really something other- worldly about visiting relatives, esp. in-laws, that you tend to be ambivalent about them, no matter what or how they do things. It really isn't an uncommon experience. But for you to feel "inadequate" because they do things exhaustively might be putting in more emotional load than is necessary. Your hubby's giving you good advice, probably because early on, he already learned to accept them as they
I chanced on a folder in my files which had no label. When I opened it, I remembered this poem my wife sent me. As I recall, the authorship was controversial - a spanish writer who later denied it was his. Anyway, the thoughts seem timely for today's troubled world. If for an instant God were to forget that I am a rag doll and gifted me with a
It started as a visit to a town called Virac, Catanduanes in the southern part of Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island years ago. It was already known as a typhoon corridor facing the Pacific Ocean and it was really the faces of friends I knew there devastated by their loss from the recent typhoon that etched in my mind. Their once lovely neighborhood of assorted g
" not censorship (unless you mean on your end) but server problems. i'm showing 13 here. " - Kb I'm glad for that, at least. I saw a blog that complained about it ("Strange Things Happening in JU"), but I think, even with a recheck, this Admin problem is still on . Since it's disorienting for the blogger, Admin should correct this. (unless they want particular bloggers to concentrate on this problem rather than their blogs). "<
Your post touched on the very issue we should bring to the enemy in this War, which is, in my belief, primarily an ideological one. In fact, if there were a JU equivalent in an online Al-Jazeera website somewhere,your article should be posted there as well to mirror the barbarity their depraved brothers committed in the name of Islam. It is only the terrorists who fear a "discussion" among Muslims since the truth of their having prostituted their own r
it's funny that the comment/reply counter should only count 3 when there are already 13 entries to the thread. The same goes for my previous blog on unconventional warfare which lists 0 replies as against 3 actual entries. I don't really care that much about points or so, but I hope this isn't censorship. I think the point of training a foreign force without devoting time to ideological training/ retraining is a mistake which we should correct, and if
"we never took our eyes off the army of the republic of vietnam and had "orders" to shoot them if they broke and ran." -this is essentially the point with the US training a foreign force in this current war. We just can't do it automatically without being assured that the trainees are ideologically of the same viewpoint as we are. To do so w/out this assurance would be dangerous for our forces in the long run. In my previous blog on unco
It just struck me as uncanny since I posted a blog months ago warning of "two headaches instead of one". Link Now this better-written,in-depth article is confirming my worst fears.
Sorry, Myr, Mano, but I had that link corrected. If you chance on a repeat of the article on a Yahoo post, you'll find a totally different URL posted. (beats me.) Anyways, I thought the use of the author's parting words was an appropriate title, including not saying so much since he seems to have brought an important point.
I came across this article Link makes you want to rethink how and where we should put our energy and resources into. but I don't hear any response. Hello ? What do you think ? <!-- Ju-
ok, you got your points. now'fess up.
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stutefish - The following sentence after I stated "dogma" in my post goes on to say:"One always has to take doctrines in the context of one’s present situation." You have to consider the audience in a venue like JU which I assume (hope I'm right) to be mostly non-military and the message I wanted to bring out which was not to look at doctrines dogmatically . Rather than dismissing it outright, in the 3rd paragraph of my article, I actually mentio
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Thanks, Tex. It goes out for a lot of military moms and wives as well. Glad you liked it.
I’d like to introduce readers to a new word (well, not really new, but you won’t find it in your daily newspapers). It’s MOOTW Link . No, it’s not a mouthwash, just an acronym for Military Operations Other Than War. The trouble with military doctrines is well, just that. It’s a doctrine, you know
"what would happen if you took the brain from a newborn human, who hasn't yet learned to control its human body, and put it into a machine. It would learn about the world solely from it's man-made machine sensors. Communicate with its output and motor devices. Would such a creature be human at all, or an actual sentient machine?" -PJ First of all, the brain would die because it wouldn't be oxygenated from the perfusion it normally recei
To understand the enemy is to know how best to defeat them. The savagery of 9/11 crossed political lines and I think there was more of a concensus from both political camps to be decisive about it. If being decisive meant striking out at the next opportune target with short-term gains or choosing our targets for long-term gains - this is what polarized the camps apart. You're right about the bias on those quotes, whose slant favor the conservativ
that's certainly a thought. As far as work ethic is concerned over-all you see the same focus and energy in many parts of the US that you witness as a whole in the emerging economies of Asia. Although the cultural aspect (karaoke) stands out , it may help as per worker efficiency only in countries like Japan, Korea,Taiwan and the Philippines,where karaoke holds sway. It's probably more of the urgency of being the underdog economy that makes their work