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Beatles I – 10,000 Hours in Hamburg
Sometimes stories take on a life of their own. Author Malcom Gladwell, in his book Outliers, makes a point about the importance of repetition, the idea that practice makes perfect, which is something I agree with him about for the most part. He says if you practice something for 10,000 hours you will become really […]
Live Long and Prosper
Leonard Nimoy died yesterday, at age 83, felled by tobacco even though he quit smoking 30 years ago. Star Trek’s Mr. Spock is dead, for good this time – unlike in the movies. Although I never met Leonard Nimoy, I did meet James Doohan, one of his co-stars in the original Star Trek series. In […]
Lessons from 24
I don’t watch broadcast television. No inclination, no time and really no interest. Which may be why I missed the series 24 when it was first broadcast. I have spent the past two years watching it, the first eight seasons anyway, courtesy of Netflix. I know it is supposed to be a thriller/adventure series, but […]
Pigs Is Pigs
I had to write a book report last week for a course I am taking. No need for details, let’s just say I didn’t much enjoy the experience. It reminded me too much of high school, which I think was the last time I had to do something like that. Hating book reports was what […]
Too Good To Be True
My needs have always been fairly simple. My desires on the other hand can be rather extravagant. I tell my family I never make a list of the things I want for Christmas because there would be nothing on it that anyone can afford to purchase for me. Those things are more fantasy than reality, […]
Stuff Happens
Went to Canada’s National Arts Centre on Saturday night to take in the play Stuff Happens, which is a look at the players and their actions surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq. You know the war – the United Nations decided Saddam Hussein could be given more time, so George W. Bush put together his […]
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