Random Learnings #42
In an article on The Guardian, a women describes her mother's abusive boyfriend and the impact on her and her mother's life. Ultimately, her mother dies - it's unclear whether…
Meandering Thoughts #34
Did Star Trek - intentionally or not - create the Borg phrase Resistance is futile from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Vogons? Compare and contrast: "Resistance is useless!" shouted…
Old-School Advertising
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum displays era-appropriate advertising in their restored trolleys. Besides providing a real feel to what the passengers saw at the time, it also shows how society has…
Six Degrees of Separation II
A followup to my previous post My Six Degrees of Separation. Martin Luther King, Jr. AFP via Getty Images George Raveling was the University of Iowa's men's basketball coach during…
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
My wife and I recently made out first trip to Pittsburgh, but before exploring the city we rented a car and drove through the Pennsylvania countryside: my wife's goal to…
Random Learnings #41
From Leyhah Fernandez' Wiki page: She us studying at Indiana University East, which has a partnership with the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Tennis Benefits Association that enables players…
Meandering Thoughts #33
"Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" by ups2006 is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Writing science fiction allows the author to present a future that doesn't exist today: faster-than-light space travel, sentient robots, moneyless…
Random Learnings #40
The Carnegie Museum of Art is currently exhibiting the works of the German artist Beate Kuhn. I initially read a contemporary biography in German: despite my sehr schlecht school-boy Germany,…
Random Learnings #39
Karl Marx popularized - but did not create - the slogan From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs that is most often associated with communism.…
Camping In Sin
My grandson and his girlfriend have been together for over two years, and their relationship has reached the point where you view them as a single unit: rarely do you…