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Smiles Matter: October 2014
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Thursday, October 2, 2014. How rust saved America. Rust, iron oxide, is all around us, giving rocks a pumpkin hue, infusing crossing a cast iron bridge an element of danger or allowing the outside world to permeate the floorboards of old VWs. Maybe I can discover something important, but I won't, 'cause I am not interested at all. All in the name of some spy mission. Iron oxide had its part at the Watergate, with the Beatles at Abbey Road Studios, in the Nixon White House. Video tape made football un...
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Smiles Matter: How rust saved America...
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Thursday, October 2, 2014. How rust saved America. Rust, iron oxide, is all around us, giving rocks a pumpkin hue, infusing crossing a cast iron bridge an element of danger or allowing the outside world to permeate the floorboards of old VWs. Maybe I can discover something important, but I won't, 'cause I am not interested at all. All in the name of some spy mission. Iron oxide had its part at the Watergate, with the Beatles at Abbey Road Studios, in the Nixon White House. Video tape made football un...
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Smiles Matter: April 2011
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Friday, April 15, 2011. Today we had a silent retreat as part of the chaplaincy program. I wrote several poems, and I think this is the best:. I see you, said God. Hidden in a rock. As if it were so. As if a rock could hide God's shadow. Contain all the holy-. And Moses, like my beloved nephew, ran round the other side to see. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life is a chain reaction. We each have our part in it. The butterfly is not in the Amazon,. It is at the corner of your mouth- SMILE.
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Smiles Matter: December 2010
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Sunday, December 5, 2010. Last year I went to a Christmas lights show in New Orleans. this year it's a show in Metairie, which is a drive-through show, mostly made with little tiny lights. The LED lights don't show up the right colors on my camera, but you'll get the idea of what I saw. And nine tiny reindeer. actually. And I didn't have to walk a mile for these! Which is lucky, because tonight is cold and windy in Louisiana! The little teddy bears. and santa in a roadster? It's cold. I'm going inside.
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Smiles Matter: June 2011
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Sunday, June 5, 2011. The spillway takes the pressure off New Orleans levees. Today (5/15) I had off work (I worked yesterday) and so after a very nice nap, I decided to go see the river. The best place to view the Mississippi is just north of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, in Norco, LA. In the image above, the Mississippi is on the right, and the normally dry spillway is on the left. it leads to Lake Pontchartrain. The scale of the thing is hard to photograph. each hole is pretty big. Unlike the surge from ...
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Smiles Matter: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Thoughts on Church Systems Improvement. Every good blog post begins with a story, right? So I was heading down to Washington, DC a decade or so ago. The trains out of NYC were delayed. I fell into conversation with a fellow on the platform who had a highly unusual job. He worked for a consortium of Home Insurance Companies, and his job was to facilitate week long visits between recovery contractors. How to get residual smoke smell out without perfumes? The group's covenant i...
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Smiles Matter: Wiki On A Stick-- like a pile of cards in your pocket.
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Monday, June 9, 2014. Wiki On A Stick- like a pile of cards in your pocket. It is Monday. a good day to talk about something I love, called “Wiki on a stick” (0.13.0 Beta 1). My uncle Dick was an engineer, he would always have a stack of IBM cards in his shirt pocket- you may not remember them ( http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched card. But they were great. he wrote little notes to himself on them, phone numbers, to do lists, combinations for locks. directions. You can encrypt some or all the pages, so ...
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Smiles Matter: November 2010
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Monday, November 22, 2010. First you make the onions. Onion and Mushroom Quiche. Oh yeah, my own 'customized' pumpkin pie and sugar-free vanilla ice cream too. Thursday, November 4, 2010. Below is an old assignment from my preaching class. It is far from perfect, but I thought I'd post it, maybe it will help someone, somewhere. Homily Lonely Women March 9, 2009. No one knows the blues like Lonely Women do.". A gal could die, without a man. And no one knows it better than, Lonely Women". The purpose, I su...
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Smiles Matter: December 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Who had no room at the inn? In preparing for a Christmas Eve service this year, I found myself re-reading Luke 2:7. Now we have all heard stories of Mary and Joseph wandering around Bethlehem looking for a room. and finding none until a friendly innkeeper said "I don't have a room, but you can sleep with my animals! Or something like that. But the verse is much simpler. But the two interesting things are marked with asterisks. Of-her Why is this not 'of-them'? I always assum...
