The blog chronicles my struggle with ALH (Adult Left Handedness). I also post drawings and write about software. Sometimes there's clips and notes from shows I am in or watch.
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I was planning to go to the Technique Museum to see some inventions and designs. I stopped at Checkpoint Charlie because of my sister Clyde’s suggestion. It turns out that this museum chronicles many interesting techniques!
This chemist didn’t just escape:: he patented his submarine, and scored chicks!
The above musician saved his wife by storing her in a stereo / amplifier.
This grinning family got through the easy way. Clyde and Christine were in Berlin when the wall came down! It’s a great photo. I’ll find the original or you should… because the looks on the faces of the family… real shot in the arm! We have done it before, and we must do it again. Kudos to the ingenious Berliners who escaped or helped people escape the Communist East. It’s hard to imagine a worse economy than our present one, but Cold War East Europe was the pits. So much invention and good will came out of the efforts to liberate those left behind. There was the 28 year old chemist who created a mini-submarine to propel him through the Baltic Sea. There were many tricked-out automobiles to conceal passengers. And much tunneling.
The hard hard times in which we find ourselves. We can find a way out. Now is an opportunity to THINK AND BUILD!
The man John P. Ireland was from New England (Mass) and he re-enlisted in the Army after the war. He and a friend helped people escape. His cover was as an eccentric antiques collector. He’d drive through in his Cadillac.
I took the above photo in the Reichstag / Parliament.
I think the above photo is famous.
The government had to take over Washington Mutual.
At least they won’t have to change the name.
I flew on US Air. They’ve become real cheap about beverage service. It costs $2, and they didn’t let me keep the can.
Well, I was able to drink the contents of the can, but then a stewardess came by with a bag and took my can away. I said, “Hey! That’s my deposit!” And she said, “Oh no, mister, that’s our nickel.”
Times are tough for both airlines and consumers during these tough, tough economic times.
Hoping to boost the economy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Republican leader John Boehner, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson negotiated a tax rebate deal that will give $300-$1200 checks to Americans this spring. [ See story ]
When asked about his own involvement with the stimulus package, President Bush said that he made mistakes as a young adult, but has been clean for years.
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid said he’d defer to Pelosi because “she knows all about giving things ‘lifts.’”
At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice said that despite the fears of a recession, the U.S. economy is “resilient.” [ See story ]
She explained: the country is just full of $5 words.
