Spring in Highland Park arrived, and nobody noticed

Originally uploaded by chmoss.

Spring arrived - I went out to get some pictures of people in spring in Highland Park. Everybody else stayed indoors, almost, The high was 79F - not enough to get peple outside. Very wierd.

More thoughts to live by

This has been widely posted, so I do not know how to properly attribute it - but I find it very funny and worth repeating. If it violates a copyright, please let me know.

• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
• If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
• Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either; just leave me the heck alone.
• It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper that's the time to do it.
• Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
• Give a man the fire and you'll keep him warm for one day. Set the man on fire -- and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
• Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
• It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
• Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
• Good judgement comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
• There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
• Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
• Never miss a good chance to shut up.
• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Severely edited subset of my pictures from India

Chinese nets

I have selected a few of my favorite pictures from our trip to India and put them up here on Flickr

Pictures from India

At last I have finished culling the pictures I took last December in India. Click on the image to see all of them.

We visited Poughkeepsie and Tenafly last week

Poughkeepsie was cold - below zero Fahrenheit. We visited our dear, old friend Brenda who had a massive stroke in January. Her recovery will be a long slow process. She has not regained her speech. It is very sad to see her in this state - she was a very active, vital person, now reduced to a vegetative state.

Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years, not 1000

The "showcase for Britain's electronic prowess" - the Digital Domesday Book - has proven itself to be just that. Its is now unreadable, reported the Observer
in a recent article.
So, to preserve your records for posterity, you can:

• Print them using pigment based inks on your digital printer

or

• Put them up on a website and hope that a web archive project crawls your site. You can ask them to do so, and access the result with the Wayback Machine.