I take my camera to as many places as I can, so when I was in Minneapolis, MN a while back I filmed a flour mill tour at the Mill City Museum. Minneapolis is called the “Mill City” and has lots of old mills that sit along the Mississippi River. This video isn't going to win any awards, but the museum did such a great job depicting the life of an average mill worker, I...
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How David Beats Goliath
What I learned: "David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 percent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten...
A Word To The Wise (Email I Received)
This bit of verse by an unknown writer says it well: Reflections on the wisdom of careful speech across cultures and traditions.
The KitchenAid Mixer Chronicles
Never, ever, ever, ever get divorced, but if you are going through it like I am, I really feel for you. The strange thing I found after separating is you go to get something (especially in the kitchen) and you can't find it, so you think "hmm maybe I misplaced it". Then you think "hmm, maybe she took it with her" and you repeat that process a million times until you drive yourself crazy. When...