Good morning! I've dropped the girls off at middle school. Michelle is dropping off the boys are their schools. It's the first Wednesday in months that she isn't going to see anyone in the medical profession. I'm VPN'd into work. While we had the fire on to take off the morning chill, it's supposed to be in the 80's later today.
Back from a late lunch with my spiritual director. Having recently returned from Fatima, he brought me a little icon from there. It's sunny, breezy, and ~85°F outside which made for a nice drive. It's as though God is giving us New Englanders a foretaste of summer.
Looking forward to seeing renowned GTD geek Merlin Mann speak at Qualcomm in a couple more hours. His talk: "Who Moved My Brain?"
Got the boys to bed. Time for a little study and then off to bed. Good night all!
Bookmarks I made today:
N.H. brain behind GPS in hall of fame: Nashua Telegraph
Comment: My friend David Brooks writes about New Hampshire’s Roger Easton, one of the fathers of GPS satellite navigation, who was in Washington, D.C. to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Excerpt: New Hampshire political watchers may know him from his run for governor in 1986 and his two terms in the state House of Representatives. But the rest of us can think of him every time our dashboard scolds us for turning left instead of right.
Hell
Comment: Considering how much Tetris I played in grad school days [on a MacPlus with its tiny B&W screen], this gave me a good laugh...
Bret Stephens: What's the Next 'Global Warming'? - WSJ.com
Comment: In his Global View Wall Street Journal column Bret Stephens proposes a contest to invent the next panic.
Excerpt: The world is now several decades into the era of environmental panic. The subject of the panic changes every few years, but the basic ingredients tend to remain fairly constant. A trend, a hypothesis, an invention or a discovery disturbs the sense of global equilibrium. Often the agent of distress i...
St. Gianna Mollas husband dies at 97
Comment: To any other Catholic engineers I know: Pietro Molla, engineer and husband to St. Gianna Molla, passed away this week.
Excerpt: MESERO, Italy (CNS) -- Pietro Molla, the widower of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, died at his home in Mesero April 3 at the age of 97.