The Panoramic Views


Looking out the breezeway at the end of January, 2006




This is the entrance to the complex on
W.T. Harris Blvd

 

Claude Monet - 1875 Train in Snow

The picture on the Christmas card from Art Walsh, 2005 

 

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Invention & Discovery

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.


Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

Hoax & Myth

This mail has been FWD to me through about four generations. I strongly urge you to go to the following link and read about URBAN MYTHS. This is an urban myth. It contains a grain of truth but it’s NOT what you think.

This stamp currently ranks #10 in the Top 25 myths.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/eidstamp.asp

I encourage all responsible email users to bookmark this page, refer to it and think before forwarding questionable or inflammatory messages.

Here are a couple of other references for your bookmarks:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ Internet hoaxes and chain letters are e-mail messages written with one purpose; to be sent to everyone you know. The messages they contain are usually untrue. [Watch for the ones from Nigeria offering 10-25% of monies found or left unclaimed that the writer wishes to move to the USA. The writer only needs your banking information. This one is call the “Spanish Hostage” after a ruse devised in the 1600’s. (SF)]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html Symantec Security Response uncovers hoaxes on a regular basis. These hoaxes usually arrive in the form of an email. Please disregard the hoax emails - they contain bogus warnings usually intent only on frightening or misleading users. The best course of action is to merely delete these hoax emails. Please refer to this page whenever you receive what appears to be a bogus message regarding a new virus, or promotion that sounds too good to be true.

I offer this information to add to your personal understanding of this wonderful tool that is sometimes misused. In spite of the miscreants who propagate these preposterous pretensions, there are credible places to verify what you find on the Internet or receive in email.
I don’t know everything. But since I’ve been reading, writing programs and building these wonderful tools for 23 years. So, when information like this comes to me, I feel obligated to respond.

Just Lawyers

One afternoon a lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the road eating grass.

Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate. He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass?" "We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "We have to eat grass." "Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you" the lawyer said.

"But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree." "Bring them along" the lawyer replied. Turning to the other poor man he stated, "You come with us also." The second man, in a pitiful voice then said, "But sir, I also have a wife and SIX children with me!" "Bring them all, as well," the lawyer answered.

They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine was. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to the lawyer and said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you."

The lawyer replied, "Glad to do it. You'll really love my place, the grass is almost a foot high."