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Parental Rambling: The Google Science Fair Competition

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So, Google was sponsoring a science competition: https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/2013/?utm_medium=hpp&utm_source=en-hpp&utm_campaign=gsf2013 I sent an email to my son explaining the competition and he promptly responded he no liked teh science.  With my usual flare for misguiding youth, I promptly supplied him with a poignant anecdote from my childhood. It went something like this: === BEGIN PARENTAL RAMBLING === …

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Stay Vigilent…When they can’t fool you, they go for your kids!

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I love it.  My son has called me with the 3rd game he wants to sign up for on the computer. “This time I checked,” he said, “It says right on their site there are no viruses, no malware, and no spyware!” “Buddy,” I replied, “If I was going to write software that installed a …

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Some Thoughts on Life and Death

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I will always think of her as the young girl who was an amazing gymnast. The one who studied Japanese and wrote me letters with purple ink and bubbly-girly letters.  She was my cousin, and she is gone now. Drug overdose. In life, I have heard the phrase,”You are your own worst enemy.”  Now, with …

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