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171. Downsizing: One-way Loyalty
February 08, 2011
I’ve been fortunate enough to have an energizing and rewarding career—-and it’s still going! It isn’t that I’m any more talented than anyone else, but my timing has been good; that is, when I graduated from college the economy was booming. If you wanted six job offers you took six interviews. And so...
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172. A Puzzling Human Condition: Learning to be Ignorant
February 04, 2011
In a recent article (Club of Clowns – Part 4: The Wild Horse Race) I wrote about a tug-o-war contest that was won not by the biggest and strongest, but the smartest. The “trump card” was not some secret weapon, but science-—physics to be specific. In other words, the weapon was knowledge. The “human...
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173. Club of Clowns - Part 4: Wild Horse Race
January 29, 2011
Summer was the club’s annual one-ton tug-o-war tournament held on the sand near the Manhattan Beach pier. Each team was allowed to have a maximum of 2,000 pounds of humanity, and they weighed us in right on the beach. Twelve teams were entered that ranged in size from seven to 13 men, the majority c...
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174. Halitosis from Hell (or How Bad Breath Killed a Business Deal)
January 22, 2011
A New York businessman, Ben, a professor from Buffalo, Dr. Hale, and I traveled to Flagstaff, Arizona to discuss a possible business partnership with a high roller who said he had access to billions of dollars. He had reviewed our business plan, which proposed purchasing and converting a defunct cop...
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175. Club of Clowns - Part 3: Adieu Bud McConnell
January 11, 2011
PROLOGUE The French word "adieu" like the Spanish "adios" literally means "to God". However, where English and Spanish speaking peoples think of it just as another way of saying good-bye, the French look at it differently; that is, adieu is reserved for the FINAL good-bye; it means we will n...
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176. A Christmas Memory
December 30, 2010
The end-of-year holiday season holds many memories for me; all pleasant in one way or another. Two that immediately come to mind are the birth of our grandson on December 29, and the death of my father on December 28. Dad's passing was bittersweet, but pleasant in that he led a full life and went ou...
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177. Club of Clowns - Part 2: Monday Night Football
December 07, 2010
I had a Saturday morning handball match with Bobo. We were evenly matched, but overall he had a bit of an edge on me so I got to the Manhattan Beach Athletic Club early enough to stretch, hit the speed bag, and do a 10-minute hand-to-eye coordination drill on the court. By the time Bobo entered I ha...
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178. Club of Clowns - Part 1: Avalon Beckons
December 04, 2010
I wasn't sure how to title this series. I first thought maybe SHIP OF FOOLS (and you'll soon read why), but that's been taken. My second thought was A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, but that was used by John Kennedy Toole for his laugh-out-loud story about New Orleans; by far the funniest book I've ever rea...
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179. VERSE-A-TILITY
November 26, 2010
Writing poetic verse does not come naturally to me. Yet when I want to express myself with a little extra portion of passion, but slightly in the abstract, nothing gives me more satisfaction. Story-telling, on the other hand, is easy. When I recall a memory or have an idea, words fly off the...
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180. Living Libido Loco Redux - The May Dance
November 22, 2010
...It was nearing dusk. The mercury vapor lights had slowly brightened the tennis courts at Kingwood Country Club near Houston. The golfers were either in the locker room or at the bar. I had just lost a tough first set tie-breaker to Jerry, 7-6. Preparing to serve, I became aware of millions of del...
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