El vaquero y el río congelado
by Al Bredenberg Paramos allí en la orilla del río, yo y la vaca, Grateful. Confundido, yo estaba mirando en alrededor, buscando el lugar de dar a beber la vaca sedienta, pero no pude ver el lugar. El...
View ArticleGrocery-Shopping Training for Old People
I’ve realized that if I’m going to become a successful old person in the future, I will have to improve my skills in blocking the grocery aisle with my shopping cart. AB — 18 March 2011
View ArticleUndo: One of the Greatest Innovations in Computing
The Undo function — a life-saver. From “Behavioral issues in the use of interactive systems,” Lance A. Miller and John C. Thomas, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Sept. 1977: A more...
View ArticleGeorge Douvris Video Interviews About Terence McKenna
I just wanted to preserve and share links to a series of video interviews with my high school friend George Douvris, publisher of Links by George. As I understand it, these interviews were conducted in...
View ArticleI’ve Been Driving This Way All My Life, and I’ve Never Had an Accident
Congratulations! You’ve never had an auto accident, even though you drive fast, tailgate, and weave in and out of traffic. And you’re already 27 — way to go! You will never have an auto accident. Until...
View ArticleThe Virtue of Small-House Living
Over at ThomasNet Green & Clean recently, I wrote a pair of articles about small houses, with a mix of interesting photos, statistics on home sizes, and quotes from Henry David Thoreau. Here are...
View ArticleWhat is intelligence, and how can you get more of it?
Just a note that I have written a post over at Tools for Thinkers with brief reviews of some of my favorite books about intelligence and how to improve it if you so desire. I review books by Tony...
View ArticleThe Way Things Are, the Way Things Were, and What Is True
I think a lot about assertions, things that people assert as true, very often without acknowledging their personal bias. To be fair, most of us are so immersed in our ideologies that we’re not aware of...
View Article‘A Yearbook Encounter,’ essay by Paul A. Bredenberg
[Following is an essay written by my father, Paul Arnold Bredenberg, in 2003. A further explanation will follow. ARB] A Yearbook Encounter By Paul Arnold Bredenberg It started with a newspaper clipping...
View ArticleGladys Ellis Bredenberg, 26 Nov 1926 – 19 May 2018 (Obituary for my mother)
Gladys Ellis Bredenberg November 26, 1926 – May 19, 2018 Gladys Ellis Bredenberg died at the age of 91, on Saturday, May 19, 2018, at Sunrise North Hills Senior Living, Raleigh, NC, where she had...
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