Month: July 2015
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Community Mail Boxes
We received mail on Friday. The last day of home delivery. Today is the first day to use our community mail box. I noted the installation of the community mailboxes in a posting in…
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Kartoffelpuffer
I recently posted a recipe for potato pancake, made with fresh potatoes. They are pretty simple to make and mighty tasty. Excellent with apple sauce, although some like them with sour cream.
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Individual Change – Household Automation
It is said that change often happens at the individual level. As our contribution to the displacement of jobs through automation we have purchased an iRobot Roomba. Every night at 2 AM it wakes up…
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On Automation
I was told a joke about a fellow, an accounting clerk to be specific, who had outsourced his own job to a fellow in India. At the end of each day the clerk passed on the…
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Statues in Krakow
Statues impart a feeling individually as well as when the total of all statues in a city are considered. Individual statues may commemorate battles, generals or the soldiers. These may convey a sense of pride, hubris, formality, in…