Saturday, December 22, 2012

talkin‘ bout my generation



When I was a little boy I remember icy milk arriving at my GrandDad’s farm through a blanketing, winter snowstorm in the mid-1950’s. 


We were a large, family gathering snowed in at the house, and a dairy farmer brought milk over with his horse and sleigh. I still have a 4-quart can I saved from my childhood.


So you can imagine with roots like that...milk in cans in a horse drawn sleigh, growing up hippy, Manhattan in the '80's, our first computer, now smartphone’s and video games and everyone’s noses buried in Facebook...that’s an arc of technology not many generations are afforded. 


All the best and Happy New Year to the baby boomers!

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Friday, December 21, 2012

imagine the consequences

may your days be worries unseen


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and may all your Christmases be green.

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Have a great weekend!

why we love the arts


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asked Santa for a wirestripper for Christmas.


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Thursday, December 20, 2012

trending now


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these are a few of my favorite things


December 25, 1962 


the mourning after


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"What I don't like about office Christmas parties
 is looking for a job the next day."
 Phyllis Diller


Wednesday, December 19, 2012

happy holidays


from our IT department :-)

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for now




We made the top 25 last year, just barely, coming in at 23.


Two below Greece.


We’re still ahead of Argentina.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

it’s beginning to look a lot like


Christmas


everywhere you go.

the elves are getting excited

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Monday, December 17, 2012

if you don't talk to your cat about catnip, who will?


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in the eyes of a child



"Christmas in Harlem
right after autumn falls"

"soaking it all in
then we go hit the mall 
(I'm like Bad Santa, though)"


"even though we ain't balling 
(You might have to sit on my lap)"


"feels like we bought it all (Ho, ho, ho)
the mistletoe's right here"


"Come give a kiss to Santa Claus."


“Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.”
William Saroyan 
(1908 – 1981) Armenian-American dramatist 

Sunday, December 16, 2012

here’s an interesting chart from the Washington Post


privately owned guns in the world.

kids get off my lawn


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I was 9 years old when “Father Knows Best” completed its first run on a black and white tv.

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That’s about the same age a boy today meets “Call of Duty,” a wartime video game developed since 2003.

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“Ozzie and Harriet” were at about that same time, and they launched Ricky Nelson.



The latest version of Call of Duty rolled out in mid November. These games have grossed billions of dollars.

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“Leave it To Beaver” immortalized June’s line, 
“Ward? I’m worried about the Beaver” in 1960.


Today we rack killcount and keep score.


I’m a gun control guy and I hope regulation appears, and we will balance the Second Amendment.


But until we mature our American culture to not glorify and obsess about killing, this is going to be part of the nightly news. With these cultural values we can ban every gun.

They'll just start making bombs instead.

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and know they love you




If there’s a God, I hope God is in Newtown this morning.


You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye.
Teach your children well
Their father's hell
Did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s
The one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

And you, of tender years
Can't know the fears
That your elders grew by.
And so please help them with your youth
They seek the truth
Before they can die.

Teach your parents well
Their children's hell
Will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s
The one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.



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