Making memories, what price, how to make, record, store and share

Posted on 01/03/2012 by Gil Jones

Making memories: are we doing the best we can, and are we preserving and sharing the memories we make?

[The wasted spending] was just 4 days since canceling our session, already totaling over $200 for un necessary things. My nails only lasted about 2 weeks, my hair is gone, and seven weeks passed when I got the phone call from our doctor. It was not something I expected and the cancer has spread very quickly. I will be leaving my husband, my 6 year old girl and my now 2 year old – not by choice.

Via Fototails Photography, Jeanine Thurston, www.fototails.com (http://fototails.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-letter-on-my-doorstep-portraits-are-more-than-paper/ accessed 3 JAN 2011) Continue reading →

WordPress search engine optimization (SEO)

Posted on 12/17/2011 by Gil Jones

Search engine market

What is WordPress search engine optimization? If you are reading this, then you do internet searches. Do you ever wonder why some pages end up closer to the top than others? It is called search engine optimization, SEO for short. There is now an entire industry touting search engine optimization, and willing to either share their secrets or to sell them to you :-). Continue reading →

Givers versus Takers: which are you? Why does the question matter?

Posted on 12/05/2011 by Gil Jones

Having grown up in a traditional extended family that included many servants of mankind (teachers, doctors, district attorney, preachers and more) and yet lived through the 60′s at the University of Texas and endured the indignation cast upon me and my fellow Viet Nam veterans, I think I know something about Givers versus Takers. Continue reading →

Occam’s razor for America

Posted on 12/02/2011 by Gil Jones

Listening this morning to Bill Bennett’s “Morning in America” radio talk show I heard a great discussion about the proper role for government. As is typical with this type of discussion, the analysis was in terms of which problems is government best suited to solve. Continue reading →

An enigmatic view of China

Posted on 11/11/2011 by Gil Jones

The topic de rigueur is the blasting of China in every imaginable way: theft of trade secrets, the imminent owning of America, trade imbalance, stealing of our manufacturing base, and more. The current political “debates”¹ apparently require a load of diatribes against the Chinese. Coffee shop talk echoes with it. Continue reading →

Footnotes:

Only an ignorant person would call those debates ↩

Why do you do what you do?

Posted on 10/17/2011 by Gil Jones

300px Blackbuck antelope in Texas Why do you do what you do? tagged Sporttracks Scattante R 570 personal mental health health Garmin Oregon Garmin Forerunner 305 Exercise endorphins Cycling Blackbuck antelope

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I’m talking about both vocationally and recreationally. Or regarding your family, your god, your friends or in relationship to any other phase of your life. Why do you do, what you do? Have you ever really thought about it or are you on auto-pilot-robot mode? Continue reading →

The world owes me … everything

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Gil Jones

Who is ready to hire him?

(The original author doesn’t) personally know the man in the photo, but it’s not difficult to figure out a few things about him. One, like many in the occupational protest army, he probably considers himself a non-conformist. Hence, all that expensive ink on his arms. Question: Did any of his student loan money pay for any of that ink? If so, his government loan shark might like to have words with him.

Source: The PJ Tatler » A Second Open Letter to the So-Called ’99%’ (http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/07/a-second-open-letter-to-the-so-called-99/ accessed 10/6/2011) Continue reading →

We took ye for granted, and are sorry for it

Posted on 07/09/2011 by Gil Jones

An era is over. Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) has launched. I have lived through the conception, inception, and now possibly the demolition of one of America’s finest “moments.” Expensive? Heck yeah. But we have taken for granted the basic fact of the space shuttle program along with the entirety of the space program, and thus have under-appreciated what it has contributed and meant to this country.

300px STS 135 begins takeoff4 We took ye for granted, and are sorry for it tagged technology Space Shuttle program Space Shuttle Atlantis Space Shuttle Space NASA

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Advice for fathers about their sons and their mothers

Posted on 05/08/2011 by Gil Jones

The measure of a man

Every father should want his son to grow to be a man. They grow older, but do they grow into men? Some do and some don’t. What is a “man?” I suggest that a “man” is far more than simply a male of our species. Each culture has its own rites of passage for passing a boy into manhood. Continue reading →

Environmental nuts: Here’s How to “Be Green”

Posted on 05/07/2011 by Gil Jones

This was too good not to preserve and, besides, I lived in this era and can relate.

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the ‘green thing‘ back in my day.”

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment.”

He was right, that generation didn’t have the green thing in its day. Continue reading →

Musings of Captain Justice

Leave the world better than you found it . . . Really.

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