Mr Brian
Something old, something new
Category: blog
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My grandfather's charity was associated with him and his efforts; but, the idea for what would eventually be called ProDeo was actually my grandmother's. She suggested that they contact Catholic schools across the country and have them sell Christmas cards as fundraisers with all profits being donated to Catholic missionaries around the world. As incentive…
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My Irish grandfather on my mother's side was a great influence on me. He was about five and a half feet tall, very boisterous and strong with a thick shock of white hair. He saved me when I left university in 1980 and moved to New York. He lived with my grandmother on Fieldston Road…
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For 40 years she sat by the kitchen window looking out onto Fieldston Road and disparaged everybody that passed by. Although she never left the house, she knew all the gossip and she would impart little quips about their looks, or behavior, or their preccadilloes in a dry Irish brogue. She was one of the…
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Saturday, 29 Oct 2022 23:30:52, I wrote; I feel sorry for us Boomers. The offspring of the greatest generation that defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and look at the world we are leaving our children. I hate it when people bitch about the younger generation. We are in process of arguably squandering the greatest…
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Cause the righteous truth is there ain't nothing worse than some fool lying on some third-world beach in spandex psychedelic trousers smoking damn dope and pretending he getting consciousness expansion. I want consciousness expansion, I go to my local tabernacle and I sing!" Reverand D. Wayne Love Ain't gonna go Alabama A3
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Is it good the world figures out itself on its own; without USA help? Is it good that other countries strenghten ties to each other and some to our so called adversary China while we sit out? No. It's not. But what is the effect on foreign relations amongst countries when the USA can't be…
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It's been fascinating to watch Dave Winer's evolution of WordLand.Social from early renditions of his concept of "timeline" within a RSS reader to best text editor, in my opinion, for writing on the net. There are some of the things that make this a great product. 1. Real-time publishing to net with one click 2.…
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Fetterman and his ilk remind me of the story I read yesterday about when Steve Jobs told Corning CEO Wendel Weeks in 2007 that he was too chicken by thinking about himself and not the company when he initially said no to Jobs request to providing all the glass screens for new iPhone. Politicians are like…
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The man that brought a thousand people to town. now young and old where before they were boomers playing dress-up hardly breathing is there a pulse? A beast, you say? History proves one thing that things don't end well for despots on wrong side of the people. Two counties south of me, in and around…
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Mobillize.us gmail, docs/sheets wordland wordpress.com Mobilize.us which is bit of amorpheus organization with some technological chops supporting diverse sets of grassroots advocacy groups. What they do that is great is they handle event sign-up and follow-up end-to-end with SMS, email, web support in highly automated manner. You really don't have to do literally anything but…
