This past week, I was invited by the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world's premier music conservatories, to watch a movie about the people who make bows used by string-instrument players. Specifically, the movie profiled bow makers who live right in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest), in and around Port …
Continue reading What I learned from watching the movie The Bowmakers, by Ward Serrill
The title of the KOMO story is "State has Fined 11 Businesses over Covid-19 Mask Mandate. In my opinion, this is pure, unadulterated EVIL. Here is a quote from the article: The state Department of Labor & Industries said Wednesday in a news release that Mail Express Business Center in Enumclaw got the largest fine …
By now, everyone in the world knows that both President Donald Trump and his gorgeous First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus earlier in the week, and are now in the hospital undergoing treatment. The 24-hour news cycle has been covering their situation nonstop, with the usual suspects behaving as expected. …
Bid Welcome to our Guest Writer for today, Ricochet Member OmegaPaladin. I am very impressed with his essay on what he would do if he were the CDC Director. My sentiments exactly! I would start by taking the various department heads in a room to get my point across: Professionalism and competence earn respect. At …
On our South Dakota trip, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Mammoth Site, near the town of Hot Springs. For some reason, we thought that there were probably few people at the Hot Springs that day. Here's why. That's what WeatherBug told me. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that the site of …
In my graduate studies in Psychology, one unit we studied was "interpersonal attractiveness". The professors at my university had done numerous studies of what makes a person attractive. They asked thousands of study subjects to rate photographs of various people, male and female, young and old. There are many dimensions to attractiveness, and different people …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #116: Symmetry. It’s hard-wired.
Have you ever seen a house with a worse color? This one just popped up in my neighborhood. Yuck!
I have been retired for about three weeks now. The first almost two weeks were spent on vacation, so they almost don't count. Here is a list of the many things I will not miss about my last job (I was there for 12 years). Punching a time-clock. After much of a career as a …
Continue reading Retirement: Things I will NOT miss about my job.
With the city council overriding the mayor's veto of their bill making drastic cuts to the Seattle Police Department, and the number of homeless camps increasing all over the city, residents of Seattle may be worrying about the safety of themselves, their homes, and their children. Especially since for a few years now, Seattle police …
Continue reading It must be uncomfortable to live in Seattle these days
Today, we feature another of our Ricochet writers, Henry Racette. Please enjoy and respond to his post on filling the new Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. About That Vacancy Now that the coronavirus crisis is essentially over but for the continuing economic disaster being wrought …
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