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May 07, 2013 at 08:07PM
The boy was sent home like a week and a half ago with what we thought was a summer cold. He’s still been coughing so into the urgent care clinic he went this afternoon. Turns out he might have bronchitis or a slight case of pertussis (whooping cough). Now on some antibiotics and if the former he should be better in a week, if it’s the latter it may last until JUNE. Hope he feels better soon. via Facebook
Those Are My Conditions
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Bad Predictions
These people got it completely wrong.
Variety magazine, 1955
Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859
Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression
A Decca Records executive to the band’s manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: “We don’t like your boys’ sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished.”
Time magazine, 1968
John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of the Future, 1936
Margaret Thatcher, Oct. 26, 1969
Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, writing in Technical World magazine, October 1912
Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops at the outset of World War One, August 1914
Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861
Dr. Dionysys Larder, science writer and academic, in 1828
Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923
New York Times, 1936
Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, in InfoWorld magazine, December 1995
The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903
William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention
Charlie Chaplin in 1916, two years into his big-screen acting career. The rest of the quote: “It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.”
An aide to British military commander Field Marshal Haig wrote this in a report following a tank demonstration, 1916
Thomas Edison, 1889. The lightbulb inventor insisted his own direct current (DC) system was superior to competitor George Westinghouse’s AC power, and took every opportunity to discredit alternating current
Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948
Byte magazine editor Edmund DeJesus, 1998
Alan Sugar, 2005
Popular Mechanics, 1949
Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling in The New York Times, 2007
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007
(from Barnorama http://www.barnorama.com/bad-predictions/)
May 05, 2013 at 04:38PM
Well looks like my son survived his Order of the Arrow ordeal and is no worse for wear. If I can peel him out of his “man cave” for a few minutes I might even find out how things went. via Facebook
Go Ask Your Mother
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May 03, 2013 at 06:44PM
Just dropped the boy off for his OA ordeal…hope he brought warm enough clothes. via Facebook
These Items Have Changed
Everyday items that have changed over the years.
(from Barnorama http://www.barnorama.com/these-items-have-changed/)
May 03, 2013 at 09:18AM
Yea! It’s my Saturday, school is out for the weekend, and the wife took the day off. Wish that meant we can relax, but that’s not the case. Early afternoon meeting with the boy and some “officials” to discuss his Eagle Project proposal (right now super Top Secret 🙂 ) . Then driving up to B.S.A. Camp Alexander to drop off the boy for his Order of the Arrow Ordeal. I would like to say my wife and I have big plans for the night, but by the time I drop the boy off and get back to town, I might have time for a late dinner and then off to bed. via Facebook
Facts about Napping (infographic)
I can always use a good nap
(from Barnorama http://www.barnorama.com/facts-about-napping-infographic/)
