Posted in Centrist, Churchill, Election 2008, John F. Kennedy, Lincoln, Obama, Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, history on February 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Winston Churchill: November 29, 1941 - Address To Harrow School
…this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Here’s another leader from our past that has words to heed in this time [...]
Posted in Centrist, Election 2008, John F. Kennedy, Lincoln, Mo-Tzu, Obama, Opinion, Quotes, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, history, purpose on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Factoid: Lincoln was asked by his own party to step down and not run for re-election in 1864.
Commented on HuffPost: Why Judd Gregg’s Change of Heart Was a Birthday Present to Lincoln’s Protégé –
“Thanks for the refreshing post, running somewhat against the grain of most of the splinter heads in the media (take that! [...]
Posted in CTO, Communications, Election 2008, Environment, Global Warming, GovLoop, Knowledge Networking, Obama, collaboration, history on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Update 6 Feb 09
Infrastructure. Information. Community.
Enabling Collaboration: Three Priorities for New Administration 5 Feb 09
on dot-gov: Transparency Requires Plain Language 2 Feb 09
White House Memo – Open Government Directive 26 Jan 09
GovLoop Group for Enabling Collaboration: Open Government Directive
Original 30 Jan 09
Government is Information. The basis of US Industry is Information. If we can perfect [...]
Posted in Election 2008, Environment, Obama, Opinion, Quotes, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, ethics, history, truth on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The credit belongs to the man in the arena…
Posted in 1968, Apollo, NSS, SciFi, Space, history on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Christmas Eve, forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 8 pointed their television camera back toward Earth and shared their vision with the entire world.
On December 21, 1968, Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders set out on the first ever journey to the Moon. Three days later they became the first humans [...]
Posted in Election 2008, history on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Watch the Vote on this Historic Election!
Posted in Blog, Everett, Heinlein, Opinion, SciFi, Web 2.0, history, web2.0 on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For myself, I never tended to goosestep into pushing the writings, or personal life of Heinlein into a cookie cutter corner of human thought or political persuasion. To me, the basic Heinlein is enough: Hard Work, excessive logical thought, and extreme appreciation of sexy science or logical beauty, and pragmatism above all else. Authority? The authority at the ‘platoon’ level is plenty to run several universes (20 or so). Loyalty? To the person next to you, in the trench or cube. God? Let’s talk.
Posted in 1970, Aquanaut, Environment, Lameshur, Media 70, SCUBA, Tektite, UT Austin, University of Texas at Austin, history on December 23, 2007 | 22 Comments »
2009 Update: Wikipedia Articles about Tektite I and II and Tektite Gallery Page
Project Tektite was an oceanographic research project conducted in 1969-1970 in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The fall and winter of 2007 seem to be dedicated to searching for information about my life and activities 40 years ago. One of the events [...]
Posted in 1963, 44 Years, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, November 22, Opinion, Oswald, Princip, Ray, Sirhan, Whitman, camelot, dallas, final shot, grassy knoll, history, jfk, truth on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On November 22, 1963, I was in my high school General Science class 16 miles south of the Texas School Book Depository. Today, I drive by Dealy Plaza on my home from work. There are always lots of tourists standing around, talking, pointing, taking pictures. As I pick my way through the intersection, I see [...]
Posted in Al Gore, Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Nobel, Opinion, Quotes, history on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We awoke this morning to the news that Washington Post reported the following:
Friday, October 12, 2007; 8:32 AM – Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize
‘Former vice president Al Gore and a United Nations panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world about global [...]
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