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Customer Service At Its Best

September 5, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

I have friends who think I’m this great computer person. They also assume that great computer people do not have serious issues with computers. For those of you who think the same, I share a customer service “issue” from some time back.

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Filed Under: Commentary, General blither

On This Anniversary

August 22, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

A storm with some claim to fame,
One Hurricane Katrina by name.
Politics most dire
Set DC on fire.
And poor Katrina gets all of the blame.

Copyright © 2005 Lin Daniel

Filed Under: Commentary, Poetry-mine

Schooling Not Restricted To Youth

June 13, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?
—Arthur C. Clarke

Filed Under: Commentary, Quotes

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel

May 16, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of food, clothing, electricity, gas and oil, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

My take on this:

The government wouldn’t turn off the light at the end of the tunnel because it’s part of an earmarked project attached to a critical spending bill. It would then get moved to somebody else’s budget, where it would be lost in the crunch. No one would realize everybody had left that tunnel for the bigger tunnel, and left the light on. Somebody might come thru at some point and change the incandescent bulb for a compact fluorescent, but the paperwork would get lost, so no one would still know it was left on.

Filed Under: Commentary

Our Elected Officials

March 21, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then – we elected them.
—Lily Tomlin

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
—Mark Twain

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, ‘America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership.’
—Will Rogers

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!
—From 1776, the musical

Filed Under: Commentary

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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Avogadro's Number and I go 'way back. When I first started writing in what might be considered a blog precursor, a fanzine, I called my 'zine "Avogadro's Number". Named after...[more...]
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