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  1. The Strait of Hormuz is being renamed the Strait of Schrödinger as it is both open and closed at the same time.
  2. I seriously thought about killing that bird.
  3. We tried everything to stop the blue heron--fishing wire to trip it, netting over the pond, etc. but it eventually got all the fish. Upset and frustrated I filled it in Blue Herons are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, so we couldn't harm it. We never had many frogs. But there did not seem to be an issue with the fish. Our Dachshund used to love to swim in the pond, we could not keep her out!
  4. Here was our pond before the bastard heron devastated it.
  5. We had a pond and loved it. We put a couple of goldfish in it and then were giving goldfish away as they multiplied. Frogs fond it. Our daughter won a gold fish at a carnival by throwing a ping pong ball into a jar. That fish was over 20 years old living in the pond when a blue heron found our pond.
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince warns that any injury you inflict on a rival must be severe enough that you never have to fear their retaliation.
  7. You completely missed Federer's point and I am not going to take the time, nor get in an argumentative discussion, to try to explain it to you.
  8. Interesting little fact, of the 80% of his matches he won, Rodger Federer only won 54% of the points in those matches. He gave a great commencement address at Dartmouth. Here is just a bit of it,
  9. I did the same for our daughter starting about 25 years ago. With apologies to the Chinese proverb about trees, The best time to buy BRK was 20 years ago and the second best time is today.
  10. I normally read when I am flying, but I check what movies are available just in case. They had one that I have been wanting to watch, 3 Idiots. I would give "3 idiots" 10 out of 10 stars. It is very good and some of the messages are the same as I teach in my Keys to Learning class.
  11. Just finished First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva. I would recommend, maybe a 4.5 out of 5. Desilva is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth. I love when I learn a lot when I read a book.
  12. Thanks John! Time for a real Boilermaker!
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