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Modeling a Domain

This posting is about software – something I am determined to learn, but most are determined not to learn. Take your pick. The latest thing in software development are application frameworks - which describe the architecture of internet software – how it is put together. The one I am studying now is the Model/View/Controller (MVC) architecture. Everything is oriented toward the Domain the application [ READ MORE ]

Corruption in Mexico

NY Times – The Sun, the Moon, and Wal-Mart When I was in junior high school, my history teacher sold us lottery tickets, promising that the more we bought, the higher our grades would be. The winning number, he said, would coincide with the National Lottery winner. I happened to buy that number and received [ READ MORE ]

Getting Rich in the Orosi Valley

I have seen this happen over and over. Americans become dissatisfied with their lives in the States, and decide to build a new life (the beautiful new life they always wanted) in another country. The country is Costa Rica (for a number of reasons, but most importantly because it is much like the US) and the part [ READ MORE ]

Going to Pieces

This is a common expression, everyone knows what it means – or do they? They know what it means (instinctively) – and at the same time they don’t want to know what it means. I believe this goes back to WWI and the concept of shell shock. For the first time soldiers were exposed to situations [ READ MORE ]

Art

I grew up in a world with no art in it – none. My family were Mormons (one of the backward American religions). And I grew up in the Midwest - the great American cultural waste land. I am now reading The Age of Insight – the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain [ READ MORE ]

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry Magazine – Borges, To the One Who is Reading Me Latin America (which is really just an outdated extension of Spain and Portugal) doesn’t have much – but it does have its poets – mostly writing in Spanish, of course. The translator’s notes for these poems serves also as an introduction to the author[ READ MORE ]

March 9 1959 First Barbie Doll

Craig Hill This is another blogger you should know about. Just keeping up will all his posts is a job in itself. From this posting; Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler, [ READ MORE ]

Being is Not a Thing

We have become used to thinking in terms of the market – where every thing can be traded. I remember going to a job fair in Silicon Valley – and marveling why no one else was marveling. There were thousands of highly-paid professionals streaming in from their expensive cars in the huge parking lots – [ READ MORE ]

The American Takeover of Haiti

From page 204 of Haiti: the Aftershocks of History In December of 1914, the USS Machias dropped anchor in the harbor of Port-au-Prince and a detachment of US Marines disembarked. They proceeded to carry out what can only be described at international armed robbery. Entering the Banque d’Haiti, they removed from the vaults $500,000 worth [ READ MORE ]

The American Ruling Class

These people do exist, and they are stronger than ever. But America’s attitude towards them is hard to decipher. Their first response, as usual, is simply denial. Americans deny that reality really exists. And a denial of their power structure is part of that pattern. They conform to it automatically and unconsciously while consciously denying its existence. [ READ MORE ]

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