http://www.vandine.biz Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a good clip of Obama campaigning in Indiana. One of my personal low points occurred in the late 1970's when I attended the nomination/election of the next editor of the school paper at Penn State. The then-current editor-in-chief, having realized that his hand-picked successor was not the ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/140 Darian Dauchan ... excellent. http://www.vandine.biz/archives/139 First of all, I thought there already was one laptop per child, at least when they are sitting down. Nicholas Negroponte's 'One Laptop per Child' (OLPC) program has had some delivery problems with their Give One/Get One program launched at the end of 2007. But who cares? His idea ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/138 Chez Pazienza over at HuffPo, and his blog Deus Ex Malcontent. Pazienza was a producer fired from CNN recently for writing a liberal blog. I'd stop watching CNN in protest, except I stopped watching that clown show long ago. I studied Liberal Arts math/science at Penn State in the ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/137 There is a smoker out in front of our building today who is a dead ringer for Franz Kafka.  Same round glasses, short, neat beard, hunted intellectual look.  I nodded my head at him as I returned from lunch.  He waved a third arm and rattled his carapace.  Which I ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/136 I deactivated my Facebook page, much to my daughter's great relief, I'm sure. I created an account to learn what it was, and I have to say I never really caught its wave. In the end, I guess it is a PHP-enabled blog server for people without the ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/135 Much to the chagrin of my teen-age daughter, I've been looking at FaceBook and trying to learn a little bit of how their applications platform works. For that I created a FaceBook Jumble application from the page found on this site. In doing that I had the first chance in ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/134 I always loved this joke from the Ernie Kovacs 'Mr. Question Man' bit: Q: Mr. Question Man. I am studying Science in high school. It is well known that the Earth is round like a ball, therefore many people must be walking on it upside-down. Why ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/133 I am discontinuing use of my Moleskine notebook. It is a fine notebook but won't lay flat on the desk when open. And I have a habit of reviewing and consolidating notes every couple of days, since otherwise I only remember facts and obligations for about eight minutes. ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/132 Certain phenomena have a gradual, long-term toxic effect. Like George Bush's voice or mercury poisoning. Add to my personal list Microsoft operating systems. I've had long exposure to these through their entire evolution, but instead of an evolving technological marvel, they always remind me more of a ... http://www.vandine.biz/archives/129