Thursday, November 03, 2011

Good morning on 3 November

Good Morning World. On this day:
In 1952, Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas in Chester, N.Y. While a U.S. field naturalist near the Arctic, he had learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit. Freshly caught fish, when placed onto the Arctic ice in the frigid wind, froze solid almost immediately. In Sep 1922, he began a company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., to process chilled fish fillets at a plant near the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. On 3 Jul 1924, he organized the General Seafood Corporation, which began the frozen foods industry. Retail frozen foods began 6 Mar 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts at the "Springfield Experiment Test Market" which offered 26 different vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats. From Today in Science
Some interesting links from this morning's surfing.
Getting your own financial house in order is a way to start change.
Very cool hanging tents. I'm not sure I would want to sleep in one, but the pictures are stunning.
Tip of the day. Use parchment paper to keep microwaved pizza crisp, among other uses.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Good Morning.

Prayer for this Sunday: Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Ten Commandments for Hillbillies (via Scott McKnight)

The New Yorker on Tom Waits.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Good morning world.

On this day:
The statue of liberty was officially unveiled in 1886.
Bill Gates turns 56.
Jonas Salk was born in 1914. I remember how liberating it was to have a polio vaccine. Before that, there was near paranoia about polio.

Thought from the day from Psalm 84:10.
Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Second thought for the day:
Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. Michael Josephson

Random links.

The second law of thermodynamics says conservation is better than generation: 'Conserve, conserve, conserve': A megawatt saved is better than a megawatt made

Sports news:
What a great game 6 in the World Series setting up game 7 tonight.
Go Rapids.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Good Morning World.

On this day:
In 1492, Columbus "discovers" Cuba.
In 1997, the stock market dropped 554 points.
John Cleese was born in 1939.
Roberto Begnini was born in 1952.

Now this is a halloween decoration that I like.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Michael Josephson Commentary

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
– David Mahoney
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (1804-1864)
As I get older, I’ve learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
– Po Bronson, journalist, author

Friday, January 22, 2010

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
– Robert Ingersoll, political leader, orator (1833-1899)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
– Samuel Butler, British poet (1612-1680)
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
– Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (6th century BC)
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader, minister (1929-1968)

Friday, December 04, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart and seek to round our lives into a hymn – the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us.
– William Mackergo Taylor, Scottish clergyman (1829-1895)
Don’t aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don’t live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows.
– William Morley Punshon, British minister (1824-1881)
He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.
– Jane Porter, British novelist, playwright (1776-1850)

Monday, November 16, 2009

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"Oneliners"

If you want the world to beat a path to your door,
just try to take a nap on a Saturday afternoon.

Measure wealth not by the things you have, but
by the things you have for which you would not
take money.

When your dreams turn to dust, it's time to vacuum.

Is your holier side your altar ego?

I need someone to refresh my memory. How many
cars are allowed through an intersection after the
light turns red? Is it three or five?

What's dumber, expecting educators to be
entertaining, or expecting entertainment to be
educational?

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

He has a heart of gold -- and teeth to match.

He gives his conscience a lot of credit that belongs
to his cold feet.

Doctor: "What are you taking for your cold?"
Patient: "I don't know. What will you give me?"

He's so lazy, he doesn't walk in his sleep -- he hitchhikes.

Marty the mason had a way with words. He invented
a square bathtub, which he said eliminated the ring.

Top secret: Another name for toupee.

A man seldom makes the same mistake twice. Generally,
it's three times or more.

Last night I dreamed I ate a five-pound marshmallow.
When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Yesterday's stress is past tense.

My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky
to have them.

You know you're getting old when you're more
attractive hanging upside down.

All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage.

Eminent domain is just a fancy name for government
theft.

If I knew then what I know now . . . "now" would be
a whole lot better.

Outcome has a lot to do with income.

Too many couples marry for better or for worse, but
not for good.

Whenever you're losing an argument, just talk louder.

I wonder why black olives come in cans and green
olives come in jars.

Some folks are so eager to find fault, you'd think there's
a reward.

I only use deodorant under one arm, so I know what
I would have smelled like.

Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it
very often.

I wish my mouth had a backspace key.

I either want less corruption or more chances to
participate in it.

Smoking doesn't kill people. People who are trying to
quit smoking kill people.

Many great discoveries are made by not following
instructions.

The older I get, the better I was.

The more things change, the more they stay insane.

Bad breath is better than no breath at all.

A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise
when opportunity knocks.

When in doubt. . . mumble.

This land is your land. This land is my land . . . so stay
on your land.

Those who want to learn listen; those who know it
all interrupt.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary

He’ll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
– Benjamin Franklin, philosopher and statesman (1706-1790)
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
– Knute Rockne, football coach (1888-1931)
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.
– Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

CAEblog

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius Antonius (Roman Emperor and philosopher)

"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds." - Buddha (Religious leader)

"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem (Writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist)

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics." - Jane Addams (2nd woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize)

Friday, October 30, 2009

I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
– Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister (1874-1965)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.
– James Branch Cabell, author (1879-1958)
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
– Robert G. Allen, businessman, Congressman (1902-1963)


Michael Josephson Commentary

Monday, July 13, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary


I don’t see the point of being a human being if you’re not going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being.
– Candea Core-Starke
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
– Laurence Stern, Anglo-Irish author, clergyman (1713-1768)
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
– John Churton Collins, British literary critic (1848-1908)
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
– Barry Switzer, football coach
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
– Michael Josephson

Monday, July 06, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary

We wish that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meets the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
– Daniel Webster, statesman (1782-1852)
If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!
– Patrick Henry, Founding Father (1736-1799)
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?
– Robert Charles Winthrop, lawyer, philanthropist (1809-1894)

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

Michael Josephson Commentary

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought to ask himself often. Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (1741-1801)

Deference is the most complicated, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. William Shenstone, British poet (1714-1763)

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (1830-1916)

Pardon is voluntary forgetfulness while forgetfulness is involuntary pardon. Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor, publisher (1814-1886)

A person of character has strong convictions, yet avoids self-righteousness. Michael Josephson

Friday, June 19, 2009

Michael Josephson Commentary

He that honoureth his father shall have a long life.
– Bible
I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
– Mario Cuomo, governor of New York
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
– Robert Lee Frost, poet (1874-1963)
To you your father should be as a god;
One that compos’d your beauties; yea, and one,
To whom you are but as a form in wax,
By him imprinted, and within his power
To leave the figure, or disfigure it.
– William Shakespeare, British poet, playwright (1564-1616)
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
– Sam Ewing, baseball player
Expressions of fatherly love are the essence of what it is to be a dad. Our reward is not that our children will remember them but that we do.
– Michael Josephson


Michael Josephson Commentary