I guess you could call it a sign of the times we live in–the economic times we live in, I mean. I don’t carefully follow the price of all groceries when I do my weekly shopping, but I do keep a regular eye on the price of a gallon of milk. The recent trend has [to read more click here…]
What do fatal mushrooms, the IBM 305 RAMAC, and saving the world all have in common? My latest post over in the Odd Bag.
Read it all here.
Here are two things, not of sufficent worth to rate a post by themselves. The last is something that could make a very long post, but which I don’t have the time at present:
Fatal Mushroom
If you promise to never, ever, eat a wild mushroom, you don’t need to read this article. Go here to read […]
Happy piggy, concerned responsible dog
One of the fun things about taking bicycle rides is you never know what you will come across. Sometimes you might see turkey vultures, other times . . . a pig.
Yes, this little piggy went to market. At least, he started that direction before he was sidetracked by the tasty leaves […]
Before the Holocaust, there was Action T4. The dead were not so many, but the death just as horrible. Some people protested, but soon the flames of the Holocaust would burn even higher than this.
To read more about the Nazi program called Action T4, go here.
Action T4, what could that possibly mean?
Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program in Nazi Germany officially between 1939 and 1941, during which the regime of Adolf Hitler systematically killed between 75,000 to 250,000 people who had intellectual or physical disabilities. Performed unofficially after 1941, the killing became less systematic.
As it is so aptly […]
Near the beginning of computer history there was ENIAC. If you are interested in what computers were like in the good ol’ days, continue reading here.
Are you familiar with the Moravians?
If not, and you are curious to learn a little more church history, continue reading here.
A little follow-up for those historically inclined.
In a previous post I wrote about the proto-protestants and Jan Hus as one of them. The followers of Jan Hus were initially called Hussites, but as time progressed there was strife and splits among them.
The Moravians were the result of such strife:
A contingent of Hus’s followers struck a […]