Join Me at Fenway This Thurs. – for Free

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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I have one ticket for someone who wants to join me to see the Sox at Fenway this Thursday, June 7 at 7:10.

The Sox play the Orioles, and Clay Buchholz, who once threw a no-hitter against them (Sept. 1, 2007), is pitching. And altho he’s not been lights out this year, he does seem to be pitching well of late.

And if you can’t attend, perhaps you know someone who might enjoy Fenway. I’m not opposed to making a new friend (if said ‘new friend’ is an O’s fan, or even worse, a Yunkee’s fan, I’ll still sit with him/her, tho I/m likely to make snide remarks now and then).

First person to contact me on this site or by email (Samesty84@gmail.com) gets the ticket.

Articles of Interest.4

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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Here are this week’s post of articles that you may have missed – one is about the future, three are related to politics, and the last returns to the issue of how we do/don’t die.

Please feel free to agree, disagree, or comment on any of them.

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At Least It’s Not Sky Diving

31 Thursday May 2012

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The Happiest 5K Ever

by Elizabeth Miller

Ah, Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer.

Since it’s notoriously one of the most crowded weekends of the year on Miami Beach, I decided to escape to Denver to visit one of my best friends, Tiffany, who recently got engaged to her boyfriend. While we were researching fun things to do, she e-mailed me about something called The Color Run. I’d never heard of it. Of course, I Googled it and knew immediately this was right up my alley.

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Two Films & a Play

17 Thursday May 2012

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (for the Elderly & Beautiful) *** (1/2)

The previews and descriptions of this film made me uncertain I wanted to see it, even though it is about a favorite place of mine in India – Jaipur. But something got me to go, perhaps a review or perhaps because we couldn’t find anything else we wanted to see.

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More Pix of the Kinder

15 Tuesday May 2012

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For those of you who enjoy pictures of the kinder, here are some of the latest, including a Kodak slide show of the gathering for my sister Janet’s 70th birthday in Atlanta.

T’s nice to see the next generation coming along so nicely, and their parents too.

(Randy & Corey are Janet’s sons. Jolie is Randy and his wife Val’s daughter, and Evan is Cory & his wife Julie’s son. Annie is my daughter, Abba (Edan) is her husband, and Eli and Abby are their children.)

Abby and Eli

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LBJ: Political Genius or Ruthless Manipulator?

13 Sunday May 2012

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Over the last week I have read Robert Caro’s fourth book on Lyndon Johnson and attended a Politics & Prose bookstore “conversation’ between Caro and Politico’s Chief White House correspondent Mike Allen. I thought the book (606 pages) truly worthy of my week’s devotion to it. I enjoyed listening to Caro and getting a sense of the man, his humility, his solidity, and his insights, though I think Allen missed an opportunity to draw out Caro on many aspects of the book that deserved discussion.

If you definitely plan to tackle The Passage of Power, you need not read further than the end of this paragraph. Mark this site, and come back to it after you have read the book. Then read what is written below, and let me others know what you think.**

If you’re not sure if you want to read the book, or if you just want to get a bit of a summary and one person’s reactions, read the “Summary” and “10 Takeaways” below.

(If your time is limited, check out The New Yorker’s excerpt of the day LBJ went from believing his political life was over to attaining the most power he ever had — Nov. 22, 1963.)

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Remaining Nats’ Games: List of Dates Still Available for Free

08 Tuesday May 2012

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Here is a list of the remaining games that are available for you to choose from to join me to watch the Nats in 2012.

One seat for each game is free to you, except you may have to buy me a hot dog and/or a beer and put up with my companionship for the duration of the game.

If you might want two tickets to any of the games listed below, I may be open to selling those to you. Note that the Friday, Sept. 7 Marlins game is definitely for sale.

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Three TED Talks

07 Monday May 2012

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Three TED Talks, by Elizabeth Miller

During the month of April, I tried to watch 30 TED talks in 30 days. TED, for those who don’t know, is an annual gathering of some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers out in Long Beach, California. Standing for Technology, Entertainment and Design, the conference usually consist of 50+ talks over four days that allows speakers and attendees to discuss a wide variety of topics. Most talks are about 20-25 minutes long.

Touted as “the ultimate brain spa” and a “4-day journey into the future,” the original conference has grown to include TED-sponsored activities all over the world and on a variety of more specialized topics (the environment, young people etc).

The conference has come a long way since it first debuted in 1984. You can read more abut TED’s history online. These days, it posts most of the talks by featured speakers online (though not right away), which is what motivated me to watch them from the comfort of my own home.

I didn’t quite get to 30 talks in 30 days. I probably watched more like 15, but these are my three favorites, on quite different topics.

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