Michelle dragged the three young kids out to Milford late this morning to check out a three story, post and beam colonial home made in the mid-80's. She came back only appreciating what we do have. She said she was appalled that they wanted as much as they did for that house. I won't go into details, but I guess it's no wonder the house has been on the market as long as it has.
I was reading about the life of St. Columban, an Irish missionary who founded a number of monastaries in France in the 6th century. I enjoyed his guidance to his fellow monks:
"Be strong in trial, useless at quarreling, slow to lose your temper, quick to learn; slow to speak, quick to listen. Be gentle to the weak and poor, always generous; stay unmoved in turmoil, bold in the cause of truth, joyful always. Be grateful, unweary in kindness, and forgetful of past injuries. Be moderate in all things, do not envy, and be ever faithful in prayer."I was thinking the other day about politics and religion. Isn't it ironic that the more "progressive" in mindset often want laws and regulations to flow down from the Federal level (ie. Washington DC) or (lately) even as sweeping as the United Nations level. They want to trump the authority of the municipality or state governments. Yet, these same people, if Catholic, are very opposed to teachings and direction that comes from the Vatican. "How dare the Pope and the Magisterium, all the way over there in Rome, tell us how to live our lives here in ____ !" Strange...
Thanks to my mom for referring me to the upcoming PBS series, The Frontier House. Having read several of the Little House on the Prairie books to Claire, this should be an interesting series. I have my TiVo set to record them. All three parts of the series are showing over the next couple of days. Check your local listings for times.
While I was skimming documentary listings on the TiVo it mentioned a Nova coming up called "Why the Towers Fell". I know, you're probably saying "because jet planes rammed into them!". From an engineering point of view it may be interesting to understand how and why the towers survived the initial impact and why they later collapsed.
Lastly, our company just did a press release announcing our good results using our ARCTangent processor in the embedded processing benchmarks for telecommunications. This announcement falls on the heals of last month's announcement about our benchmark results in the consumer domain.