Monthly Archives: July 2009

Saturday Farm Report

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 18, 2009

My neighbor offered to swap some meat for the use of my brush mower. I haven’t used it in the last few years. I’m hoping he can get it running. So the trade is for maintenance, not for meat. Last night I picked a gallon of sour cherries. Usually the birds get the cherries before [...]

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Walter Cronkite

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 17, 2009

What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times… and you were there. – Walter Cronkite, narrating He informed my youth with You Are There (1953 — 1957). I saw every show. He informed my adulthood, reporting on six US Presidents from Kennedy [...]

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one more test…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 16, 2009

no pings, no strings, no smoke and mirrors… let’s see if this post gets fed without any manual intervention.

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making progress

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 16, 2009

just another feed test

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noob, rube, or just unclued

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 15, 2009

this is by way of a test message to see if my rss feed works now that google and I agree that my feedburner account is real. I feel like such a noob. 7/16 – problem solved with update to [dot]htaccess file. Duhh.

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Health care and aging

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 10, 2009

Knowledge is out there, but it don’t come served to you on a bun. – Sonny Barger Worried about the cost of medical care? You’re not alone. But don’t worry. Be happy. The truth about health care costs has been teased out of a cost/benefit analysis and the results are, well… not surprising. The most [...]

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A Glorious Independence Day

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 4, 2009
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The power of tweet

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 2, 2009

“Does Twitter dumb us down or simply reveal our innate goofiness?” asks Nick Carr this week at his blog, Rough Type. In partial answer he points us to Gideon Rachman’s column in the Financial Times. Mr. Rachman says, “Twitter is a compendium of banalities. But in Iran, the medium’s terseness and immediacy came into its [...]

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