I heard this speech a few days ago on Shakespeare and was quite taken with it. It dispelled my suspicion, fueled by years of eminent doubting Thomas’s, that the lowly theater-owning businessman could possibly have authored the plays. It took a Jeopardy champ to convince me they were wrong.
I got a letter today from someone who thought I looked crooked in my Budgeteer Photo. Here and Here. So, I’m going to display some photos over the next couple days that show the real me.
Here I am two years ago on a ferry passing Hamlet’s Elsinor Castle in Denmark. (You remember him. He couldn’t decide whether to get the bad guy or not. I understand Hamlet but I also remember that the bad guy got him. Reminds me of me and JCI) I still have a beard in this photo although at the moment I’m beardless. I’ll get around to showing some more current photos too.
My acquaintance, Vic sends me odd bits of things in his email and today I got this piece about tattoos from the Opinion Journal. Apparently one-in-three young people have them now. For some odd reason I felt compelled to send a comment back to the Journal for their consideration to wit:
“As a 55 year old man I have no intention of getting a tattoo but both my children sport them. My daughter has a little one on her scalp which reportedly means “hair” in Chinese. Once her hair grew back it became invisible. My son has them all over his torso.I’m actually a little comforted to read that so many people have them now because I don’t wish either of my children, or my tattooed son-in-law, to be penalized for their body art. Still, I’m not a fan.
The symbols and artwork chosen by young people to reflect their personalities may not be very accurate representations of their core being in the distant future. It would be a shame if in twenty years the tattoos became as outdated as the names of long lost sweethearts which were often affixed to the biceps of drunken sailors.”
Among the sites I visit almost daily is NASA’s Cassini mission. Every week wonderful and breathtaking new images of Saturn and its neighborhood are made available. This is a fun little video of this remote world.
Its nice to know that whatever problems we inflict on each other here on Earth we have accomplishments like Cassini to remind us of what we can do when we get our act together.
The official source for all the blather of the eccentric Harry Welty – Duluth School Board member, off and on, since 1995. He does his best to live up to Mark Twain's assessment: "First God created the idiot. That was for practice. Then he invented the School Board."