I’m certain Faccialibro, the pseudo-Italian word I invented for Facebook does not really exist in any Italian dictionary(slang or otherwise) but it commemorates a certain utility that I discovered for Facebook since adding a cousin who lives in Italy to my friends list. While there are ample opportunities to fritter one’s time away on a [...]
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Over the past few months my interest in genealogy research has flagged. I continue to engage in hours of perusing various sources and searching for new ones, which might lead eventually to additional information about my ancestors; however, I don’t feel the same sort of exhilaration that I once experienced, perhaps, the absence of any [...]
Nothing Limps Like A Deere
Posted in General, Observations on Jan 17th, 2009
Last spring my 18 year old garden variety Lowe’s lawn tractor reached the end of its utility. The steering, which had been tricky for a couple of seasons, no longer functioned as an equal opportunity navigational system; instead, it had developed a distinct proclivity for left turns and introduced a level of intrigue not [...]
Et Tu Brute
Posted in Fun, General, Observations, Odds & Ends on Jan 9th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I traded caution for curiosity and joined Facebook. We’ve all read accounts about the raft of questionable photos and ignominiously foolish comments posted on Facebook for all the world to see, or worse, curious employers tempted to check the accuracy of such reports. My adult children and many,if not all [...]
More Than I Can Tell
Posted in Observations, Philosophy on Jan 8th, 2009
Just the other day I was casting about for another book to read and happened to stumble on S. by John Updike, a book I had no recollection of buying. I hadn’t read anything that Updike had written for decades and what I had read most recently was probably criticism rather than fiction. While the [...]
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